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Startup pitch: SavvyMob last-minute hotel booking on mobiles to India

By Karthick Prabu | July 22, 2014

Here comes the start of last-minute mobile hotel bookings in India, a trend which SavvyMob hopes to spearhead. The Bangalore-based startup was founded in April this year by Bikram S Sohal (CEO and Read More

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HotelTonight claims industry first with mobile check-in and key-less entry

By Kevin May | June 25, 2014

Bragging rights it seems to HotelTonight with an update to its mobile app to include mobile check-in for hotels and the ability to enter rooms without a key. The same-day mobile hotel booking claim Read More

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Lessons for travel startups from Uber and OpenTable: Disrupt, fix or make money

By Alex Bainbridge | June 19, 2014

The last few weeks have seen two major travel startup new stories, perhaps giving hope to countless young businesses in the sector. Firstly, OpenTable "exited" to Priceline for a cool 2.6 billion d Read More

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Dating, friends night out, hometown hotels - a backgrounder to last-minute hotel bookings

By Karthick Prabu | June 3, 2014

Whilst last-minute mobile-hotel bookings continue their steady rise, lastminute.com has shed some light on consumer attitudes to the trend. The Travelocity-owned, European online travel agency cond Read More

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To encourage planned spontaneity, HotelTonight adds citywide rate forecasts

By Sean O'Neil | April 15, 2014

HotelTonight, the San Francisco mobile booking startup, is encouraging its users to procrastinate with their hotel bookings until the last minute. In a new feature, its app is previewing the "start Read More

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How to pull back the sheets on Hotel Tonight and its performance

By Sean O'Neil | April 1, 2014

Like many private companies, Hotel Tonight, a pioneer of last-minute booking apps, is coy about the effectiveness of its e-marketing effort. But clues to its performance can be found in a sample of Read More

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Six mobile trends to boost sales of travel products

By Pamela Whitby | April 1, 2014

With mobile bookings becoming mainstream and roaming charges falling, could 2014 be the year of in-trip services? NB: This is a report by Pamela Whitby, editor for EyeforTravel. For the past few Read More

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Middle East travel industry - mobile and last-minute bookings kick in

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | March 18, 2014

In my recent visits to Dubai, I have sensed growing excitement around the nascent online space. The opportunities are huge and diverse in the Middle East travel sector. More investors are eying the Read More

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VeryLastRoom raises $2.1 million in bid to capture $28 billion last-minute market

By Karthick Prabu | March 12, 2014

Last minute mobile-based hotel booking service VeryLastRoom has raised $2.1 million funding led by french venture capitalist APlusFinance, and Extend & Sigma Gestion. In May 2013, the France-ba Read More

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WeHostels does an inverse HotelTonight and switches to hotels

By Kevin May | February 19, 2014

Whiff of change in the air - WeHostels looks to be going a bit mainstream with news that it will adding hotels its mobile-only booking platform. The move comes the same week as HotelTonight trigger Read More

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Entering the next phase of mobile commerce in the travel industry

By Glenn Gruber | February 4, 2014

Mobile commerce continues to grow at a fast pace. According to eMarketer, mobile commerce or mCommerce constitutes $41.68 billion of the total $262.3 billion of ecommerce sales for 2013 or an incre Read More

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Startup pitch: LastRoom pushes last-minute hotel booking service to corporates

By Karthick Prabu | December 17, 2013

LastRoom is another last-minute hotel booking service, but this time with business travellers in Latin America as a key target audience. The startup was initially launched in December 2012 and came Read More

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A brief history of travel technology - from its evolution to looking at the future

By Stephen Joyce | September 12, 2013

It is said that necessity is the mother of all invention - and we need look no further than the travel industry to see this proverb in practice. Read More

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Groupon buys same-day mobile hotel service Blink

By Kevin May | September 9, 2013

Europe-focused same-day mobile booking service Blink has caught the eye of Groupon - with the deal service wrapping up an acquisition for the Spain-based company for an undisclosed fee. Read More

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HotelTonight more than doubles its capital raised with a $45 million round

By Sean O'Neil | September 5, 2013

The leading US start-up, which makes a mobile hotel booking app, announces its fourth round of financing, led by Coatue Management, a New York hedge fund. Read More

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