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Defining moment for advocate and influencer marketing
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Defining moment for advocate and influencer marketing
By Martin Cowen | August 5, 2016
UK digital agency Qube Media has  prepared a detailed report into the theory and practice of influencer and advocate marketing, two buzzwords which have come to the fore over the past couple of years.... Read More
Priceline heralds Booking.com's one million reservations in a single day
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Priceline heralds Booking.com's one million reservations in a single day
By Juliana Shallcross | August 4, 2016
The Priceline Group's second-quarter results beat expectations, despite recent terrorist attacks and political instability in Europe, as well as competition from major hotel chains and their direct bo... Read More
Travelport sees revenue climb, highlights OTA benefits and ancillary evolution
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Travelport sees revenue climb, highlights OTA benefits and ancillary evolution
By Kevin May | August 4, 2016
Travelport has seen its overall revenue increase by 9% in the second quarter of 2016, with overall growth for the year so far at 8%. The travel technology company hit $606 million in revenue for th... Read More
The state of online travel agency bookings in charts
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The state of online travel agency bookings in charts
By Kevin May | August 4, 2016
Whilst bots and other future-tech items get many of the headlines in 2016, there is undoubtedly a war of words out there between the intermediaries and hotels. The latest salvo (coming the same day... Read More
Google goes guerilla with Rio content site - no Olympic Rings to be seen
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Google goes guerilla with Rio content site - no Olympic Rings to be seen
By Marisa Garcia | August 4, 2016
Google's in-house creative agency The Zoo has added new features to its "All of Brazil Plays" to coincide with a significant global sporting event taking place in Rio de Janeiro over the next few week... Read More
Be afraid - TripAdvisor is playing the long game with Instant Booking
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Be afraid - TripAdvisor is playing the long game with Instant Booking
By Martin Cowen | August 4, 2016
TripAdvisor's second-quarter results highlight how it plans to improve its Instant Booking product now that the global roll-out is complete and more than half a million properties can be booked this w... Read More
Direct now cheaper than agencies for majority of hotel searches
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Direct now cheaper than agencies for majority of hotel searches
By Kevin May | August 4, 2016
Maybe the regulatory restrictions are starting to get through, or something else - data-crunching has shown that 53% of rates are now cheaper on hotel websites than intermediaries. Checks on over 2... Read More
Skyscanner brings travel search bot to Skype group chats
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Skyscanner brings travel search bot to Skype group chats
By Kevin May | August 3, 2016
Travel search service Skyscanner has created what is one of the first bot-type search tools for mass-market messaging platform Skype. The Microsoft-owned platform has worked with Skyscanner, initia... Read More
Adobe finds more evidence desktop dominates US travel booking despite mobile growth
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Adobe finds more evidence desktop dominates US travel booking despite mobile growth
By Juliana Shallcross | August 3, 2016
A new study from Adobe shows that the scale of mobile travel search growth over the past few years is not reflected by a similar increase in bookings. The Adobe Mobile Travel Report, released today... Read More
Icelandair and Travelaer build airline industry's first Facebook Messenger booking bot
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Icelandair and Travelaer build airline industry's first Facebook Messenger booking bot
By Marisa Garcia | August 3, 2016
Travelaer has linked up with Icelandair to develop the airline industry's first search and booking Facebook Messenger bot. The conversational interface encourages flyers to search for the flights w... Read More
Pokémon Go activity becomes another way to search for accommodation
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Pokémon Go activity becomes another way to search for accommodation
By Kevin May | August 3, 2016
It was only a question of time before a travel search service started allowing users to find accommodation based on a property's proximity to Pokémon Go activity. The mobile gaming app's extraordin... Read More
Startup pitch: Tripshelf's package holiday meta for India has $250K to get going
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Startup pitch: Tripshelf's package holiday meta for India has $250K to get going
By Martin Cowen | August 2, 2016
Metasearch or price comparison sites have come a long way since the early days of Kayak, Travelsupermarket, Trivago and the other early adopters. The suppliers' relationship with the price comparis... Read More
To thrive, DMOs need Synchronized Content Management
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To thrive, DMOs need Synchronized Content Management
By PhocusWire | August 2, 2016
What should destination marketing organizations (DMOs) do to remain relevant despite shifting digital trends? That's the focus of the latest Tnooz Report, How Destination Marketing Organizations Can A... Read More
Distil Networks, the bot mitigation company, raises $21 million
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Distil Networks, the bot mitigation company, raises $21 million
By Sean O'Neil | August 2, 2016
Distil Networks, a provider of bot detection and mitigation services who says that about 30% of its business is with travel companies, today said it has closed $21 million in Series C financing. Si... Read More
Sabre posts 20% revenue climb in the first half of 2016
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Sabre posts 20% revenue climb in the first half of 2016
By Sean O'Neil | August 2, 2016
In the first half of 2016, Sabre saw revenues across the group increase by 20.3% to $1.704 billion, compared to the first half of 2015. That level of growth represents a big jump from the approxima... Read More
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