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Microsoft creates translation tool to switch voice to a different language [VIDEO]
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Microsoft creates translation tool to switch voice to a different language [VIDEO]
By Kevin May | March 13, 2012
Travellers have started seeing translation tools appear over recent years, some turning text into different languages and even some producing instant audio. Read More
Booking.com view from the top - new CEO on Big Data, social, flash sales and Google
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Booking.com view from the top - new CEO on Big Data, social, flash sales and Google
By Linda Fox | March 12, 2012
Booking.com is something of an enigma - extraordinary growth, successful acquisition strategy, determined efforts to attract new customers through search. Read More
Trust International weeks away from unlocking Room Key for members
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Trust International weeks away from unlocking Room Key for members
By Linda Fox | March 8, 2012
Hospitality resevation and distribution specialist Trust International is two weeks away from connecting to Room Key, the online hotel venture started by a number of hotel chains in January Read More
Google now providing airline reservations system to regional carrier Cape Air
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Google now providing airline reservations system to regional carrier Cape Air
By Dennis Schaal | March 1, 2012
It was seven or eight years in the making, but Google's ITA Software now has its Passenger Service System in production with an airline, albeit a relatively small one, regional carrier Cape Air. Read More
What happens when you apply semantic search technology to hotel websites?
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What happens when you apply semantic search technology to hotel websites?
By Viewpoints | February 28, 2012
A hotel is dynamic -- a veritable revolving door of people and activities. Yet most hotel websites are dynamic only in the booking process. Read More
Five ingredients of basic digital marketing that can help hotel SEO, but many still ignore
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Five ingredients of basic digital marketing that can help hotel SEO, but many still ignore
By Viewpoints | February 27, 2012
Independent hotels are paranoid about visibility. The industry is extremely competitive: as within any market with oversupply, capturing market share means someone else is losing out. Read More
Google gets futuristic with information and images delivered to eyewear
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Google gets futuristic with information and images delivered to eyewear
By Linda Fox | February 22, 2012
Think Terminator or, Clark Kent (Superman) when he removes his glasses to scan a situation, to get some idea of one of the projects Google might currently be working on Read More
FairSearch brings its anti-Google campaign to Europe, uses old Microsoft foe to lead operations
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FairSearch brings its anti-Google campaign to Europe, uses old Microsoft foe to lead operations
By Kevin May | February 21, 2012
FairSearch, the US lobbying group created originally to fight the mighty Google after the purchase of ITA Software was announced in 2010, is heading across the Atlantic. Read More
Who is so far feeling the heat from Google Flight Search? No major surprises here
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Who is so far feeling the heat from Google Flight Search? No major surprises here
By Kevin May | February 17, 2012
In October 2011, about a month after the buzz around the launch of Google Flight Search and (kind of) subsided, Tnooz published traffic share figures for the fledgling service. Read More
Three reasons why the evolution in travel payment functions cannot be ignored
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Three reasons why the evolution in travel payment functions cannot be ignored
By Viewpoints | February 15, 2012
The recent buzz around regaining control of pricing and margins in hotel distribution is deafening. Everyone seems to want a piece of the action. Read More
Why destination marketing providers need to think more like Google, Apple and Facebook
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Why destination marketing providers need to think more like Google, Apple and Facebook
By Viewpoints | February 14, 2012
The current DMO technology-pricing model is killing the sector and making destination marketers increasingly irrelevant. Read More
How airlines are beginning to play with Google Plus [INFOGRAPHIC]
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How airlines are beginning to play with Google Plus [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | February 9, 2012
Still relatively early days, but travel companies are certainly starting to take Google Plus seriously, with airlines testing the water perhaps more than other sectors in the industry. Read More
Google who? Expedia largest traffic source for Priceline
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Google who? Expedia largest traffic source for Priceline
By Dennis Schaal | February 6, 2012
Break up Expedia -- it may wield too much power over Priceline's fate. Read More
Getting mobile web basics right in travel is still a target rather than an achievement
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Getting mobile web basics right in travel is still a target rather than an achievement
By Glenn Gruber | February 3, 2012
As we got towards the end of 2011, many people were asking me what I thought was next in the world of mobile and whether I had any predictions. Read More
Room 77 comes out fighting as Concur reveals investment, pledges to out-Kayak Kayak
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Room 77 comes out fighting as Concur reveals investment, pledges to out-Kayak Kayak
By Kevin May | February 2, 2012
The hotel sector is getting rather interesting (and feisty) in 2012, as some predicted, with the likes of Google wading in deeper and the GDSs ramping up their efforts. Read More
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