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British Airways wants to make us cry (again) with new video

By Karthick Prabu | February 16, 2014

[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixbLMsVlpes" video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/british-airways-.png"] After the vir... Read More

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Web brands embrace bricks-and-mortar stores

By PhocusWire | February 16, 2014

MARKETING: Travel, perhaps more than any other industry vertical, has seen its former stronghold of physical shop-fronts hit hard by the introduction of the web some 20 years ago. Although it is dif... Read More

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Digital habits: Nielsen profiles the US consumer in latest report

By Nick Vivion | February 14, 2014

The constant-flux nature of the digital landscape means that brands must rapidly adapt their marketing strategies to map the shifting consumption habits of consumers. In order to be present where cons... Read More

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Big brand social media managers - a confession

By PhocusWire | February 14, 2014

SOCIAL: A plethora of social media channels are now available to brands (some obviously more effective than others) and, inevitably, resources required to manage them. In travel there is still some... Read More

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Virgin America and Gogo partner with app for in-flight networking - and a dream pitch

By Nick Vivion | February 14, 2014

Virgin America and Gogo Inflight WiFi have partnered with mobile business networking app Here on Biz on a cross-marketing promotion that offers up free flights to entrepreneurs with the perfect pitch.... Read More

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How 16-24s use technology and social media during a trip

By Kevin May | February 14, 2014

We all know those aged between 16 and 24 (Gen-Y) are social media freaks, will challenge managed travel policy, and start hyperventilating if apart from their phones for more than two minutes. A ma... Read More

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Startup pitch: PoolCircle aims to be at centre of peer-to-peer services

By Karthick Prabu | February 14, 2014

There are countless individual providers of peer-to-peer services in the accommodation, connecting locals with travellers and car rental segments. But how about bringing all those players under one... Read More

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A new way of crunching destination visitor numbers [VIDEO]

By Kevin May | February 13, 2014

[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyp3-NSS0UU" video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/visitor-numbers-2.jpg"] Destinations... Read More

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Big shoes to fill - new Kayak tech boss on flights, mobile, Europe and more

By Nick Vivion | February 13, 2014

Late last year, Kayak co-founder and CTO Paul English stepped down to pursue another venture. The news was significant, as he was a key driver to the brand's success over the past decade. English w... Read More

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A Facebook take on travel in 2014 - silent, blurred and visual

By Linda Fox | February 13, 2014

What a difference a year makes – or does it? A year ago during Enter 2013, Facebook global marketing solutions specialist Aoife Desmond shared some insight into Zucks Law, travel companies being cr... Read More

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KLM to (kind of) allow flight payments via Twitter and Facebook

By Karthick Prabu | February 13, 2014

With KLM, it's often: what's next? The airline has answered by launching a service in which users can make payments for flights via social media. Passengers who are planning to book a flight, modif... Read More

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Farelogix rolls out SaaS version of airline merchandising platform

By Nick Vivion | February 13, 2014

Farelogix has created a SaaS version of their enterprise-level merchandising software for airlines, claiming the "world's first Merchandising as a Service" model. FLX Merchandise-Xpress is targeted... Read More

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Ctrip seeing steady growth of 30%, dominated hotel and flight bookings

By Karthick Prabu | February 12, 2014

Ctrip has reported an increase of 30% between 2012 and last year, on the back of net revenue of $890 million. The Chinese online travel agency saw a similar jump (31%) in the fourth quarter of 2013... Read More

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Yahoo acquires Wander's photo-based diary app Days

By Karthick Prabu | February 12, 2014

With an obvious effort to strengthen its mobile channel, Yahoo has acquired Wander's visual diary mobile app service - Days. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, TechCrunch reports the de... Read More

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OTAs are winning the battle but maybe not the hotel distribution war

By Viewpoints | February 12, 2014

OTAs cannibalising direct hotel sales isn't surprising, and boils down to two things: the range of offers and the ability to put huge marketing clout into driving custom. But, last week's article (... Read More

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