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Mobile confession from the new Priceline family member [VIDEO]
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Mobile confession from the new Priceline family member [VIDEO]
By Linda Fox | January 8, 2013
It's worth sticking with this clip from CBS This Morning if you can get past the presenters drooling over Priceline's $1.8bn acquisition of Kayak in November... Read More
CheapoAir, Travelocity and Orbitz all vying for position - Top US travel websites, December 2012
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CheapoAir, Travelocity and Orbitz all vying for position - Top US travel websites, December 2012
By PhocusWire | January 8, 2013
Less than 0.75% market share separates Orbitz, Travelocity and CheapOAir near the top of the list of most popular travel websites in the US.... Read More
The Scan: Frontier Airlines redesigns its site, and more travel tech news
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The Scan: Frontier Airlines redesigns its site, and more travel tech news
By PhocusWire | January 8, 2013
Today's roundup of travel trade news briefs includes Frontier Airlines, Priceline, Foursquare, Digital Spring, Mr & Mrs Smith, Visit Finland, Navigate Media Group, Travel Supermarket, Sunshine, Booking.com, Go Pro Travelling, Drive.sg, Target Rooms, Waymate, Wego, Webjet, Onyx, RateGain, LocalUncle, mTrip, Babbel, and Interhome.... Read More
Backpackers rejoice: The Holy Grail of multi-stop RTW flights is here?
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Backpackers rejoice: The Holy Grail of multi-stop RTW flights is here?
By Nick Vivion | January 8, 2013
Independent travel bookers Bootsnall have released their latest product targeted to the indie travel community: a multi-point flight planning tool called Indie.... Read More
Travel startups: ditch the consumer traction and focus on data
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Travel startups: ditch the consumer traction and focus on data
By Alex Bainbridge | January 8, 2013
There has been plenty of digital inches written recently about the Series A crunch. Is it real? I don't know.... Read More
World's most searched-for travel destinations in 2012
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World's most searched-for travel destinations in 2012
By Sean O'Neil | January 8, 2013
We give a country-by-country breakdown of top search terms in travel, plus a list of the airlines that were most searched worldwide.... Read More
Booking.com extends vacation rental offering with partner properties, another new battle starts
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Booking.com extends vacation rental offering with partner properties, another new battle starts
By Kevin May | January 8, 2013
It shouldn't come as a surprise to observers of Booking.com (and the quest for global domination) as it now looks to be increasing its coverage of vacation rental properties.... Read More
Econsultancy says the top travel INFOGRAPHIC of 2012 was by Monetate
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Econsultancy says the top travel INFOGRAPHIC of 2012 was by Monetate
By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2013
Out of 700,000 infographics, the digital marketing consulting firm chose Monetate's as the best for travel. The poster spotlights best practices for customer conversion.... Read More
Desktop versus mobile behaviour in travel search [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Desktop versus mobile behaviour in travel search [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | January 7, 2013
Year of the mobile and all that (for the past few years at least), but how is the shift to consumers using their devices to search for travel products playing out in the real world?... Read More
WestJet loses web crown to Air Canada - Top Canada travel websites, December 2012
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WestJet loses web crown to Air Canada - Top Canada travel websites, December 2012
By PhocusWire | January 7, 2013
Air Canada has regained the top spot in the list of leading travel websites in Canada from WestJet, after a sizeable jump in traffic in December 2012.... Read More
WAYN wants to be the social travel comeback kid in 2013
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WAYN wants to be the social travel comeback kid in 2013
By Linda Fox | January 7, 2013
Travel social network WAYN has been doing some soul-searching in recent months, chiefly: "How do you exist in the world of Facebook?"... Read More
Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search
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Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search
By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2013
Superfly's guerrilla marketing on Facebook has lured users to its fight search tool, and its new airline e-mail scanning service may let customers load up their mileage information in a single click.... Read More
GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets
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GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets
By Kevin May | January 7, 2013
In what could be one of the biggest investments so far in the growing online tours and activities sector, GetYourGuide has grabbed $14 million from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.... Read More
British Airways and Thomson rise to the top - Top UK travel websites, December 2012
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British Airways and Thomson rise to the top - Top UK travel websites, December 2012
By PhocusWire | January 7, 2013
New leaders in the airline and agency categories at the end of 2012 as British Airways and Thomson leapfrog their rivals to become the most popular travel websites in the UK.... Read More
Deregulation of the air distribution in China and how agents can capitalise
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Deregulation of the air distribution in China and how agents can capitalise
By Viewpoints | January 7, 2013
Today’s travel agency environment is both dynamic and turbulent.... Read More
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