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Lastminute.com says too hard for consumer startups to enter travel battle

By Kevin May | April 21, 2016

Travel startups attempting to muscle in on consumer travel will face an uphill task if they want to challenge the status quo. That's the pessimistic view from the deputy CEO of Lastminute.com Group Read More

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Why you should never consider a travel planning startup

By Viewpoints | January 14, 2016

Having founded WorldMate and Desti (which also swallowed Plnnr), not a week goes by without me being approached by an entrepreneur who has started/is starting/is contemplating a travel startup. NB: Read More

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Online travel agencies claim Lufthansa GDS charge is manifestly illegal

By Kevin May | August 18, 2015

It hasn't been a greatest seven days for Lufthansa with its plans to introduce a Euro 16 levy on all bookings made via intermediaries. First of all, a tax loophole in Brazil meant that travel agenc Read More

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WEBINAR VIDEO - How to make mobile travel booking six times faster

By Kevin May | July 30, 2015

Online travel agency bookings have undergone a massive shift. For the first six months of 2014, over 40 percent of consumers booked travel reservations. However, travel is still experiencing an Read More

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Imagine a world without the world wide web [VIDEO]

By Kevin May | July 2, 2015

It is 1989. Tim (now Sir) Berners-Lee, whilst working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, has an idea to create something called the world wide web. ...(sorry, former-Mr Vice President)... The wor Read More

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TSpotlight - Travel needs to get its personalization act together

By PhocusWire | June 30, 2015

A new report, produced by Tnooz in association with Boxever, concludes that travel firms have no excuse not to start working on personalization strategies. A Brief History of Personalization - Past Read More

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Lastminute.com takes over at Bravofly Rumbo, promises ahead-of-the-curve strategy

By Kevin May | May 21, 2015

Two months on from bedding in its purchase of Lastminute.com, Bravofly Rumbo has won shareholder approval to banish its former brand name forever. The new corporate identity for the group will come Read More

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Bravo! Lastminute.com back on centre stage as new owner switches brand name

By Martin Cowen | March 30, 2015

Bravofly Rumbo has committed to making its recently-purchased Lastminute.com name its primary pan-European consumer brand. The Swiss-listed European OTA bought the business from Sabre for $120 mill Read More

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Expedia buys Travelocity for $280 million

By Kevin May | January 23, 2015

Sabre has finally offloaded its interest in consumer-facing businesses by selling Travelocity to Expedia for $280 million in cash. The acquisition will not come as a huge surprise to many (not leas Read More

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Lastminute.com sold to Bravofly Rumbo for $120 million

By Kevin May | December 16, 2014

Sabre has managed to offload its European online travel agency Lastminute.com to the Bravofly Rumbo Group. The binding offer to acquire the OTA is expected to hand Sabre $120 million and will close Read More

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Sabre - lastminute.com progress, TripCase flies, pax up

By Martin Cowen | November 13, 2014

Sabre's Q3 earnings call added a few nuggets of knowledge to the financial release, with its CEO and CFO bullish about how well its Travel Network unit (the GDS) is doing compared with its competitors Read More

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Five lessons startups can learn from the pivot of a major online travel brand

By Viewpoints | September 8, 2014

There have been years of negative news, but there has now been a transformation of Travelocity's business model into that of an affiliate of Expedia. This has led to some encouraging news for Sabre Read More

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Sabre confirms Lastminute review, says OTA perfectly positioned for growth

By Linda Fox | August 27, 2014

Sabre says it is exploring 'strategic options' for Lastminute.com following more than a week of speculation that the UK-based business was up for sale. An announced from the global distribution gia Read More

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Lastminute.com future in question as Sabre touts sale?

By Linda Fox | August 18, 2014

The rumour mill is running with speculation that Sabre has put a For Sale sign over UK-based lastminute.com. One media report says US-based Houlihan Lokey has been appointed to advise on the sale a Read More

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Why are internet years like dog years?

By PhocusWire | July 18, 2014

STARTUPS: Lastminute.com was the European poster-child for the tech rush of the late-1990s/early-2000s. It feels an age away now (in web generation terms it probably is), so it is interesting, 14 ye Read More

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