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Air Canada creates crowdfunding platform for cash-strapped passengers

By Kevin May | July 22, 2016

Perhaps trying to live up to their reputation as being the nice folk of North America, Air Canada has developed a way for people to attract donations for their trips. The idea behind Embarq is that... Read More

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German media giant invests in Indian budget hotel startup

By Martin Cowen | July 22, 2016

India's Treebo Hotels has picked up $16.7 million in Series B funding, with the Indian-based investment arm of Germany's Bertelsmann taking part. Bangalore-based Treebo is a tech-enabled budget hot... Read More

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Hotels can use data and a bit of TLC to make a difference

By Viewpoints | July 22, 2016

Many hotels are challenged to meet short-term targets whilst having to formulate strategic priorities in a highly competitive business environment. How is it best to deal with this dilemma? NB:... Read More

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Orbitz and CheapTickets test car rental reviews, other Expedia brands to follow

By Sean O'Neil | July 21, 2016

Not consigning the reviews universe to its former stablemate TripAdvisor, Expedia, Inc., continues to show an interest in building up its own database of reviews and using that to help suppliers. I... Read More

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Two travel brands make it to list of 300 top websites on the planet

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

Languishing within in a pile of 300 search engines, porn portals, entertainment hubs and retailers are just two travel websites. Booking.com and TripAdvisor feature in the list of the most popular... Read More

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Digital travel sales to break through $800 billion by 2020

By Martin Cowen | July 21, 2016

Research house eMarketer has updated its forecasts for digital global travel sales and now thinks the total for 2020 will be more than $817 billion. Its study looks at leisure and unmanaged busines... Read More

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Metasearch mobile war begins: Skyscanner integrates hotels and car rental

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

It's been a long time coming, but Skyscanner can finally go head-to-head with arch-rival Kayak on their respective mobile applications. The UK-based metasearch engine has this week added both hotel... Read More

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Inspirock prioritises engineering and awareness, sees stellar growth

By Martin Cowen | July 21, 2016

Trip planning site Inspirock has created significantly more itineraries in the first half of 2016 than it did in the whole of 2015, according to co-founder Prakash Sikchi. He told Tnooz that in the... Read More

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Foursquare thinks it can add some data magic to the travel industry

By Linda Fox | July 21, 2016

Foursquare talked about enterprise solutions for its location data early in 2016 when it announced its $45m in funding. The company, traditionally known for check-ins, talked up its programmatic ad... Read More

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Expedia buys travel photo sharing and destination guide Trover

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

Funny how these things turn out - but Expedia Inc has bought the once heavily touted Trover for an undisclosed fee. In short, Trover is a social travel guide in pictures, on desktop and mobile, ena... Read More

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Canadian online travel consolidation as iTravel2000 sells to RedTag

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

The mid-tier online travel agency market in Canada has got smaller this week with the acquisition of iTravel2000 by Red Label Holdings. Red Label is the parent company behind rival OTA RedTag, as w... Read More

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Europcar Lab buys stake in Wanderio

By Martin Cowen | July 20, 2016

Paris-listed Europcar has announced the latest investment by its Lab unit - a minority stake in Italian multimodal search and comparison platform Wanderio. Neither the size of the stake nor the amo... Read More

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Top airlines now earning more than a third of revenue from add-on services

By Linda Fox | July 20, 2016

Airline ancillary revenue has taken off (literally) in the past seven years with the top 10 carriers earning $8.4bn in 2008 compared to the $26bn earned last year. The amount of ancillary revenue o... Read More

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Four payment habits which are eating into agency margins

By Sponsored Content | July 20, 2016

Most executives would agree on the importance of change and constant evolution for businesses to remain competitive. Yet when it comes to supplier payments, methods are based on habits with little pro... Read More

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WhereisWhere pins way for location-based direct bookings

By Martin Cowen | July 20, 2016

Singapore-based travel marketing platform WhereisWhere is building up its global supplier database in advance of its consumer launch, and claims to offer another way for travel firms to sell direct to... Read More

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