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TripAdvisor raising the game for Business Listings with rates, availability and booking service
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TripAdvisor raising the game for Business Listings with rates, availability and booking service
By Linda Fox | July 9, 2013
TripAdvisor is days away from unveiling a new service for its Business Listings customers called TripAdvisor Connect... Read More
Mobile browsing continues apace, Android devices beginning to gain some traction
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Mobile browsing continues apace, Android devices beginning to gain some traction
By Linda Fox | July 9, 2013
Browsing from mobile devices continues to grow rapidly according to a study which shows a 56% increase year-on-year.... Read More
QTravel is gaining on Travelplanet, Poland's OTA giant
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QTravel is gaining on Travelplanet, Poland's OTA giant
By Sean O'Neil | July 8, 2013
Operating since 2010, QTravel sells vacation packages from Polish tour operators. It has about a third of the traffic as leading rival Travelplanet.... Read More
Booking.com is thrashing Expedia in Europe, says survey
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Booking.com is thrashing Expedia in Europe, says survey
By Sean O'Neil | July 8, 2013
A survey of 120 hotel executives in Europe by Morgan Stanley reveals why Booking.com is trouncing Expedia in Europe.... Read More
Social media and Asiana flight 214: whole story versus sum of its parts
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Social media and Asiana flight 214: whole story versus sum of its parts
By Gene Quinn | July 8, 2013
You couldn’t ask for a better case study of media fragmentation than the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 in San Francisco – ground zero for the invention of social media and leading example of its use.... Read More
Dear travel industry, we desperately need more mentors for budding entrepreneurs. Thanks!
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Dear travel industry, we desperately need more mentors for budding entrepreneurs. Thanks!
By Alex Bainbridge | July 8, 2013
Building a travel startup is hard. Building a travel business is easier, but Tnooz TLabs is about startups with ambition to scale, not about creating companies that can provide an income for a team of people, but have no wider grand ambition.... Read More
Next phase dreamed up for Is Japan Cool campaign
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Next phase dreamed up for Is Japan Cool campaign
By Linda Fox | July 8, 2013
If high-tech toilets and next gen vending machines were among those voted most cool in ANA's Is Japan Cool campaign last year, what will this latest phase bring?... Read More
Facebook and hotels: Here comes Graph Search Optimization
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Facebook and hotels: Here comes Graph Search Optimization
By Sean O'Neil | July 8, 2013
SEO meets social sharing with Facebook's Graph Search. Hotels are the first sector in travel to be affected by the tool, which rolls out to all US users of Facebook today.... Read More
Let a gaming company loose on mountains of location data and you get this...
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Let a gaming company loose on mountains of location data and you get this...
By Kevin May | July 5, 2013
Some web toys are just too difficult to describe, or words do not do them enough justice - you just have to go and play with it.... Read More
Hotel prices in North America - July to September 2013
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Hotel prices in North America - July to September 2013
By PhocusWire | July 5, 2013
Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in North America.... Read More
Twitter evolves as a strong platform for virtual travel concierge services
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Twitter evolves as a strong platform for virtual travel concierge services
By Karthick Prabu | July 5, 2013
While 42% of stories shared by users in Facebook are related to travel experiences, Twitter is no exception when it comes to travel industry.... Read More
Forget Twitter and Facebook, email remains the killer method for selling stuff
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Forget Twitter and Facebook, email remains the killer method for selling stuff
By PhocusWire | July 5, 2013
Wake up, wake up - in 2013, no company can expect to be taken seriously if it’s not on Facebook or Twitter.... Read More
Why fly without wifi?
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Why fly without wifi?
By Viewpoints | July 5, 2013
For years, air travellers were happy to turn off phones and other devices, tuck into their peanuts, flick through the inflight magazine and watch a film.... Read More
Budget hotel brand with heavy technology mix unveiled, looks for hipsters and savvy business folk
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Budget hotel brand with heavy technology mix unveiled, looks for hipsters and savvy business folk
By Karthick Prabu | July 5, 2013
Budget chain Premier Inn is to launch a new hotel brand - Hub by Premier - with an abundance of technology being pushed as one of its main selling points.... Read More
Drum roll, drum roll - which country has the best reputation?
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Drum roll, drum roll - which country has the best reputation?
By PhocusWire | July 4, 2013
If reputations are like shadows, as US president Abraham Lincoln wrote, which country casts the longest one?... Read More
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