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Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L... Read More

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Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and Wotif quietly add natural language search to their homepages

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

Last month, Expedia Inc quietly rolled out natural-language search to its platforms. The "Search Anything" feature has been added as a tab to the homepages of most of its English-language platform sit... Read More

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Chinese airlines aim to improve their international websites and apps

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

Chinese airlines are slowly improving their foreign websites’ and apps' content and e-commerce capabilities, as the carriers expand globally. For instance, Spring Airlines is working with Booking.c... Read More

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Some travel search queries are now almost exclusively on mobile devices

By Kevin May | August 22, 2016

The vast majority of searches for travel-related terms such as "5-star" and "best time to visit" are now beginning on a mobile or tablet device. Hitwise recently analysed the web activity of some t... Read More

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Travel tech CEO allegedly fell for a €1.5 million scam before his fatal flight

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

In the days in July before his chartered plane crashed in Slovenia, Thomas Wagner, founder of Germany's largest homegrown seller of package tours, was conned out of €1.5 million, say investigators.... Read More

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Startup pitch: Zipskee looks to connect travellers with locals

By Linda Fox | August 22, 2016

Zipskee has been set up as a platform to bring travellers and locals together. It is seeking to help all travellers have a friend who can show them the best spots while on a trip and hopefully make fo... Read More

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Travello secures funding for solo travellers app

By Linda Fox | August 22, 2016

Travello, a mobile application that aims to help travellers hook up prior to a trip, has raised almost $1 million in funding. The Australia-based startup, which launched last year as Outbound, says... Read More

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Hotelchamp takes direct action with Euro 1.75 million capital-raise

By Kevin May | August 22, 2016

Hotel web and marketing kit provider Hotelchamp has secured a Euro 1.75 million investment round. The Netherlands-based company, which launched officially in June this year (TLabs here), has raised... Read More

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Webjet ramps up European B2B with £21 million Thomas Cook deal

By Martin Cowen | August 19, 2016

Sunhotels, the European bedbank of Australia's Webjet, is taking a big chunk of UK tour operator Thomas Cook's hotel contracting and supply business. In a statement it said that it is paying Thomas... Read More

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Want innovation, hotel industry? Try choosing the right problems

By Sponsored Content | August 19, 2016

These days everyone purports to be innovating, revolutionizing, and pioneering, while the rest of us seem to be perpetually searching for innovation. NB: This is a viewpoint by Alan Young, presiden... Read More

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Laterooms channels the power of Colin

By Martin Cowen | August 19, 2016

Accommodation provider laterooms.com has released previews of its next TV ad campaign in the UK, featuring a new brand character called Colin. The campaign will run for a fortnight from Sunday to c... Read More

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Startup pitch: Tripaya is a metasearch that offers destination ideas by budget and interest

By Sean O'Neil | August 18, 2016

Tripaya is a consumer metasearch startup that prompts users to say how much they want to spend and what kind of trip they want to have (beach, snow, romance, Pokemon Go, etc..), to receive recommendat... Read More

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New markup standards give hospitality rich cards a lot more structure

By Viewpoints | August 18, 2016

Imagine you’re traveling for work last-minute (difficult, I know). Time is of the essence, and you couldn’t book a hotel room before you left. Like most hotel bookings made from a mobile device, you n... Read More

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ALICE thinks hotel operations could learn from innovation in other industries

By Sean O'Neil | August 18, 2016

ALICE is a New York-based startup that says it has built the first hotel operations software that can handle front-of-house and back-of-house operations along with guest interaction in a single platfo... Read More

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Uber to roll out driverless Volvo taxis

By Sean O'Neil | August 18, 2016

Uber has placed a $300 million bet with Volvo that it can eventually replace its tens of thousands of drivers with self-driving vehicles. The companies told Bloomberg today they have signed a $300... Read More

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