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Now you can book travel by speaking to Kayak, via Amazon's Alexa

By Sean O'Neil | May 10, 2016

The travel industry is talking a lot about voice-powered search these days, thanks in part to Alexa -- a personal assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to understand simple v... Read More

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Facebook overhauls Dynamic Ads, just for travel marketers

By Kevin May | May 10, 2016

Facebook is jumping on the realisation for many travel brands that the omnipresent social network can be an important part of their marketing activity. The company is this week relaunching the exis... Read More

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Viv shows off voice-controlled hotel booking via Hotels.com [VIDEO]

By Sean O'Neil | May 10, 2016

Viv, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, gave its first public demonstration of its voice-controlled assistant on Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, the annual industry conference. Viv aspires t... Read More

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Europcar's Ubeeqo set for three new cities

By Martin Cowen | May 10, 2016

Europcar Labs is in line for a busy few months after its parent company Europcar highlighted some new initiatives and launches coming out of the dedicated innovation unit. The flagship product of E... Read More

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Out of the way tourists, Indians are exploring their own cities [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Martin Cowen | May 10, 2016

Indian OTA Cleartrip has found that most customers of its recently-launched activities channel are people looking to do more in their own city. Cleartrip launched its activities channel last August... Read More

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Ranting online about travel more popular than trying to get a refund

By Kevin May | May 10, 2016

Research has shown that venting one's anger online about a poor travel experience is proving a more popular pursuit than taking it up with an official body. The study by MarkMonitor of almost 3,300... Read More

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By Sponsored Content | May 10, 2016

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How SiteMinder's VC sees hotel distribution now

By Sean O'Neil | May 9, 2016

In January 2014, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) invested $30 million in SiteMinder, a hotel distribution platform based in Sydney. To put the Series B round together, Dave Yuan, a general part... Read More

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Elon Musk's Hyperloop gets a lift with levitating tech [VIDEO]

By Sean O'Neil | May 9, 2016

Hyperloop, a train that would use next-generation levitating technology, seemed like a pipe dream when it was first floated as an idea in 2013 by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who founded Tesla Motors.... Read More

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Zomato boss responds to analyst's battering

By Martin Cowen | May 9, 2016

Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO of restaurant-based start-up Zomato, has defended his business after an analyst's report halved its valuation to $500 million. The HSBC report, which is not in the... Read More

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Look who’s talking - chat bots and virtual reality unwrapped at THack Mallorca

By Gene Quinn | May 9, 2016

Some pretty big digital travel players made headlines last week with Booking.com unveiling its hotel chat service, and with early product testers sharing a peek at Google’s new Trips app. But that doe... Read More

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IHG turns the screw on agencies with direct-booking swipe

By Kevin May | May 9, 2016

InterContinental Hotels Group is the latest mega-chain to make a major effort to turn travellers away from the "purse-stretching" online travel agencies. The group is pushing a major new campaign t... Read More

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Rome2Rio takes instant bookings for trains, flights being tested

By Kevin May | May 9, 2016

The instant booking trend on travel sites is now hitting the multi-modal players, with Rome2Rio taking bookings for rail trips in the UK. The Australia-based company has enlisted the help of Silver... Read More

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The HouseTrip story - how to make tens of millions of investment capital disappear

By PhocusWire | May 9, 2016

The HouseTrip email of Wednesday 27 April 2016: "We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been acquired by TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website." I wasn't thrilled... I was crying into my m... Read More

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Age of flying bots - what airlines should do in 2016

By Viewpoints | May 6, 2016

Airlines will be one of the first sectors to push into messaging-driven experiences, as shown by KLM’s bot launched at Facebook’s F8 Conference last month. NB: This is an analysis by Nadav Gur, fou... Read More

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