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HotelBeds and What Now create app to give hotels revenue from activities

By Kevin May | September 20, 2016

HotelBeds Group will use a partnership with travel startup What Now to push mobile apps and money-making opportunities in-destination to hotels. The idea is that hotels on the HotelBeds distributio... Read More

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Ancillary revenue study features GDS agreements

By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016

The CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorks Company has been released in full and includes, for the first time, a look at each of the airline's relationships with Amadeus, Travelport and Sa... Read More

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The Standard becomes another hotel group offering an OTA-like marketplace

By Sean O'Neil | September 20, 2016

It was a year ago that AccorHotels began selling independent hotels alongside its own properties on its website, in an "open marketplace" concept that has drawn a lot of attention. Today Standard I... Read More

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GTA acquires hotel distribution and destination management provider MTS Globe

By Kevin May | September 20, 2016

Hotel distributor GTA has expanded network of services with the acquisition of fellow provider MTS Globe, with a view to growing its beach, city and long-haul destinations. Terms of the deal have n... Read More

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Taxi app funding back in business with Grab grabbing $750 million

By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016

Southeast Asia's ride-hailing platform Grab has completed the region's largest ever consumer tech funding round, trousering $750 million. And the statement says the round was "oversubscribed". J... Read More

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Programmatic advertising disappoints some DMOs

By Viewpoints | September 19, 2016

If you’re a destination marketing organization (DMO) serving up targeted online ads via programmatic advertising, have you heard the story of John Wanamaker? NB: This is a guest analysis by Doug La... Read More

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Supplying the demand, demanding the supply: A Sabre & Tnooz report into mobile's end-to-end role in travel

By Sponsored Content | September 19, 2016

Sabre, one of the leading global travel technology businesses, has worked with Tnooz to produce a free report which looks at some of the wider trends in mobile that have a direct connection with trave... Read More

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Google debuts Trips, a mobile app to plan travel itineraries faster

By Sean O'Neil | September 19, 2016

Today Google launches its first all-in-one travel app, Google Trips. The free app aims to be a personalized tour guide available for Android or Apple devices. The most powerful trick of Google Trip... Read More

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LowcostHolidays exec owns stealthy stake in rival that bought failed agency's digital assets

By Kevin May | September 19, 2016

A director and shareholder at the Lowcost Travel Group didn't disclose an affiliation with the recent buyer of the failed online travel agency's digital assets. Administrators Smith & Williamso... Read More

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Airbnb acquires Trip4Real in locals-doing-activities push

By Kevin May | September 19, 2016

Airbnb's mantra that everyone should somehow "travel like a local" has seen it snap up Spanish activities provider Trip4Real. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Co-founder and CEO, Glori... Read More

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Hotel Urbano founders return, Priceline Group writes-off investment

By Kevin May | September 16, 2016

Brazil-based online travel agency Hotel Urbano has announced the return of its founders to run the company. The move follows a unsettling period after the Priceline Group decided to write-off the r... Read More

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Travel marketing is more frustrating than ever

By Viewpoints | September 16, 2016

Digital marketing is a great way to burn lots of cash, now more so than ever. NB This is a viewpoint by Matthew Barker, head of strategy at I&ITravelMedia. It used to be that SEO and Adwords... Read More

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Restaurants eating up CPC budgets

By Martin Cowen | September 16, 2016

SimilarWeb has found that the most-expensive desktop keyword in travel is "restaurants near me", averaging $3.78 per click. "Cheap hotels" comes next, averaging $3.35 per click. Not surprisingly... Read More

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Be upfront: Engagement levels fall for travel brands in social media

By Kevin May | September 16, 2016

Many hotels used to ask their followers/fans in social media to get engaged with the brand - and it often worked. But now they appear to have changed tack. Ryan Solutions did some analysis of share... Read More

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Startup pitch: Tripcon offers natural-language metasearch, Tokyo-style

By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2016

Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices as the main way consumers access hotel, flights, destination, and activities information. Type "... Read More

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