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What's On York, Vegas.com, United focuses on airports in new app, and more...
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What's On York, Vegas.com, United focuses on airports in new app, and more...
By PhocusWire | August 26, 2015
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for August 2015: Tuesday 26 August 2015: Make It York unveils app Destination management com... Read More
Employees shun city jobs for greener pastures at Airbnb and Uber
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Employees shun city jobs for greener pastures at Airbnb and Uber
By Linda Fox | August 25, 2015
Here's an interesting study from Escape the City on the companies people would most like to join if they took the plunge and left their existing careers. Unsurprisingly Escape the City was set up a... Read More
Seedstars World talks to lastminute.com group CEO on travel startups
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Seedstars World talks to lastminute.com group CEO on travel startups
By Viewpoints | August 25, 2015
Seedstars World (SSW) is a Swiss company which runs an annual competition for startups. Winners from 50 startup competitions worldwide will meet for a grand finale in Switzerland, where they will part... Read More
Despite headwind, Qunar triples its mobile revenue, bets on merchant model
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Despite headwind, Qunar triples its mobile revenue, bets on merchant model
By Martin Cowen | August 25, 2015
China's second biggest OTA Qunar has said that it is "closing the gap" with market leader Ctrip and that leisure travel in China is "immune" to the recent slowdown in the country's growth. The OTA'... Read More
Startup pitch: Razoom, a tour aggregator, signs with Amadeus Brasil
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Startup pitch: Razoom, a tour aggregator, signs with Amadeus Brasil
By Sean O'Neil | August 25, 2015
Razoom aims to become the largest tours-and-activities aggregator in Latin America by distinguishing itself with superior supplier management tools. The Rio de Janeiro-based startup says that it is... Read More
Sharing economy hits the mark with business travellers
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Sharing economy hits the mark with business travellers
By Viewpoints | August 25, 2015
The landscape of today’s sharing economy is quickly expanding across a diverse range of services. And while pioneers such as Uber continue to capture headlines and consumer market share, data shows ho... Read More
Startup pitch: bd4travel wants to get travel companies closer to customers
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Startup pitch: bd4travel wants to get travel companies closer to customers
By Linda Fox | August 25, 2015
Bd4travel was founded about two years ago after the three founders, who had worked together at Traveltainment, joined forces to address the potential for big data in the travel industry. The trio,... Read More
Faster wifi at 39,000ft is due soon in the US, after watchdogs give OK
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Faster wifi at 39,000ft is due soon in the US, after watchdogs give OK
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Inflight wifi speeds are about to see a step-change spike because Gogo Inflight, a leading airline internet provider in the US, has received final-stage Federal Aviation Administration approval for be... Read More
Think with Google debuts a travel dashboard to help US marketers
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Think with Google debuts a travel dashboard to help US marketers
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Today Google's marketing research arm, Think with Google, unveiled its Travel Dashboard -- a free online tool that highlights recent and year-over-year trends based on Google data across the car renta... Read More
Turning vacation pics into GIFs, Booking.com lunges for marketing gold
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Turning vacation pics into GIFs, Booking.com lunges for marketing gold
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Booking.com, the hotel reservation giant owned by Priceline Group, has come up with a clever marketing campaign that helps users transform their vacation shots into GIFs, or animated, looping short vi... Read More
This Air France ad is the top travel brand video of 2015, so far, says Google
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This Air France ad is the top travel brand video of 2015, so far, says Google
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Congratulations (or, we should say, félicitations ) to Air France for having created an advertisement that has been more popular than any other video from any other travel company so far in 2015, acco... Read More
Airbnb's pricing algorithm and Aerosolve, its open-source machine learning tool
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Airbnb's pricing algorithm and Aerosolve, its open-source machine learning tool
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
A little machine learning can have a big impact. Dan Hill, product lead at Airbnb, wrote the company's pricing algorithm after the British-based rival startup he cofounded, Crashpadder, was acquire... Read More
Thomson keeps "data breach" details to itself
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Thomson keeps "data breach" details to itself
By Martin Cowen | August 24, 2015
Thomson is the latest travel firm to have a data breach reported in the mainstream UK press, although details are thin on the ground. This shows that data breaches are now a consumer news story rat... Read More
Personalization, retailing, and the traveler data problem
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Personalization, retailing, and the traveler data problem
By Viewpoints | August 24, 2015
Airlines that provide a fully personalized experience to their customers throughout the entire traveler’s journey will create a differentiated offering in a generic marketplace. NB This is a guest... Read More
Middle East Airlines and Travelport, Sabre gets Air Seychelles, fare family get-together for Amadeus and LH Group, and more...
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Middle East Airlines and Travelport, Sabre gets Air Seychelles, fare family get-together for Amadeus and LH Group, and more...
By PhocusWire | August 24, 2015
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for August 2015: Monday 24 August 2015: Middle East Airlines gets rich with Travelport... Read More
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