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Peek adds B2B business model with backend suite of tools for tour operators
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Peek adds B2B business model with backend suite of tools for tour operators
By Nick Vivion | November 19, 2013
Peek's Ruzwana Bashir took the stage at Phocuswright's Travel Innovation Summit today, sharing a new B2B backend professional tool for tour and activity operators. The suite is called Peek Professi... Read More
Hotels faced with new challenges as average age of guest drops
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Hotels faced with new challenges as average age of guest drops
By Nick Vivion | November 19, 2013
The average age of hotel guests has dropped, new research has found. The white paper, "Who's Sleeping with You: A Detailed Look at the US Online Hotel Guest" was produced in partnership with Hudson... Read More
Taking a long view on digital marketing
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Taking a long view on digital marketing
By Viewpoints | November 19, 2013
Consumers’ passion for and rapid adoption of technology presents both opportunities and risks for all businesses in their digital marketing. As the time we spend with various screens reaches new hi... Read More
Priceline gets into inspiration game (thanks to Travelport)
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Priceline gets into inspiration game (thanks to Travelport)
By Kevin May | November 19, 2013
Priceline is the latest travel brand to try and re-engineer the way people get ideas for travel after integrating an inspiration engine provided by Travelport. The tool being rolled out on a new ve... Read More
British Airways takes child's perspective for latest digital campaign
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British Airways takes child's perspective for latest digital campaign
By Linda Fox | November 19, 2013
British Airways says it's trying to bring some of the magic back to flying with its new 'look up' digital marketing campaign. The promotion, created by Ogilvy 12th Floor, is currently on digital bi... Read More
Amadeus gets behind mobile project to promote Europe
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Amadeus gets behind mobile project to promote Europe
By Linda Fox | November 19, 2013
Amadeus is to develop a mobile application to help promote Europe as a tourism destination. The VisitEurope mobile app is part of the 'Destination Europe 2020' joint initiative between the European... Read More
Startup pitch: OutBounding - a platform for discovering and sharing quality travel content
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Startup pitch: OutBounding - a platform for discovering and sharing quality travel content
By Karthick Prabu | November 19, 2013
How many times have you tried searching for some travel related content and ended up finding something totally unrelated, and of mediocre quality? The web is filled with loads of travel related con... Read More
SilverRail in first acquisition, buys part of Jeppesen from Boeing
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SilverRail in first acquisition, buys part of Jeppesen from Boeing
By Kevin May | November 18, 2013
Boeing has sold the Journey Planning division of its Jeppesen business to Silverrail Technologies for an undisclosed fee. The deal is a debut acquisition for three-year-old Silverrail (TLabs here),... Read More
Dear Mr Huston, some advice as you become new CEO of Priceline
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Dear Mr Huston, some advice as you become new CEO of Priceline
By Viewpoints | November 18, 2013
New CEOs always have big shoes to fill, but when you're the incoming boss of Priceline you have the biggest shoes to fill in the travel world. Under your predecessor, Jeff Boyd, Priceline went from... Read More
Beyond the Zero to the Ultimate Moment of Truth in marketing
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Beyond the Zero to the Ultimate Moment of Truth in marketing
By PhocusWire | November 18, 2013
MARKETING: Analytics, data and other massively improved techniques have made marketing THE discipline at the heart of travel, with theories such as Google's Zero Moment of Truth hugely important ide... Read More
WeHostels sold to StudentUniverse in cash and shares deal
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WeHostels sold to StudentUniverse in cash and shares deal
By Kevin May | November 18, 2013
Mobile-based budget accommodation agency WeHostels has ended less than two years as a startup and will be joining StudentUniverse for an undisclosed fee. The deal is said to be for cash and shares... Read More
Intention-driven travel shops, airlines and beating the clock
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Intention-driven travel shops, airlines and beating the clock
By Viewpoints | November 18, 2013
The airline industry has transformed possibilities for individuals and businesses: affordable air travel, along with digital telecommunications and trade liberalization, is one of the three chief driv... Read More
Carlson Wagonlit looks to last mile for developments
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Carlson Wagonlit looks to last mile for developments
By Linda Fox | November 18, 2013
It's not often big companies provide a peek of tech stuff they're working on so a recent Carlson Wagonlit Travel session was refreshing. Although CWT's marketing technology director William El Kaim... Read More
Passengers turning to specialist websites for in-flight comfort
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Passengers turning to specialist websites for in-flight comfort
By Linda Fox | November 18, 2013
As hundreds descend on Florida this week for the PhoCusWright event, how many will have researched in-flight comfort before booking a flight? It's an increasing number according to a study from Air... Read More
Are Twitter ads as useful as a chocolate teapot?
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Are Twitter ads as useful as a chocolate teapot?
By PhocusWire | November 17, 2013
MARKETING: One of the issues that dogged social networks in the early days was if users would be to busy "engaging" with the community to care about such pesky things as adverts. Facebook may be pul... Read More
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