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Building a bridge between revenue management and marketing in hotels

By Viewpoints | March 9, 2015

Hotel distribution is more complex today than ever and there are so many companies between the hotel product and the guest. Along the way, two key functions – revenue management and marketing – hav... Read More

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Reputation management cited as key investment trend for hotels

By Kevin May | March 9, 2015

An upcoming report will say hotels are looking at online reputation management as their key investment area in 2015. The latest TripBarometer report from TripAdvisor, captured from data via a surve... Read More

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Recruit Holdings pushes further into hospitality with Euro 200 million buy

By Nick Vivion | March 6, 2015

Recruit Holdings is becoming an increasingly visible force in travel and hospitality. First, the venture arm of the staffing conglomerate invested in vacation rental platform Tripping.com. Now the com... Read More

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How Cornell students helped Leading Hotels of the World boost revenue

By Sean O'Neil | March 6, 2015

Companies don’t need to hire a large "big data" team to benefit from the latest academic knowledge of analytics. Case in point: Leading Hotels of the World is a New York City-based sales, marketing... Read More

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Marketing watch: Twitter adds enhanced targeting thanks to third party data

By Nick Vivion | March 6, 2015

Twitter's latest advertising enhancement promises to deliver a far more engaging and conversion-rich product for travel marketers seeking to target specific buying behaviors on the real-time platform.... Read More

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Closing in on a 360-degree view for airports and airlines

By Linda Fox | March 6, 2015

SITA has combined trends and numbers from recent reports to reveal how airports and carriers are improving the passenger experience as well as future plans. The Future is Personal report highlights... Read More

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Welcome to China, Thomas Cook

By Martin Cowen | March 6, 2015

Something to file for future reference - Chinese outbound tourists will have the chance to not just book it, they can Thomas Cook it. The "strategic partnership" between Thomas Cook and Hong Kong-l... Read More

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Startup pitch: TeamRunner simplifies group sports team travel

By Sean O'Neil | March 5, 2015

Pity the soccer mom. And the hockey mom, the basketball mom, and the lacrosse mom. She has to drive hundreds or thousands of miles a year, hauling children to sports practices, matches, and competitio... Read More

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Instagram launches clickable ad carousels perfect for travel marketing

By PhocusWire | March 5, 2015

Instagram's advertising product has received a significant upgrade that will appeal to travel marketers of all kinds: it's called Carousel Ads, and is similar to the recently introduced Snapchat produ... Read More

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Mandarin Oriental: Undetectable malware stole our credit card data

By Sean O'Neil | March 5, 2015

Some of Mandarin Oriental's point-of-sale systems at some of its luxury hotels in the US and Europe were infected with malware capable of stealing customer card data, the company said today. In a j... Read More

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If this car can order a pizza, will the connected car become the next booking tool?

By Nick Vivion | March 5, 2015

In partnership with Pizza Hut and Accenture, Visa has created a proof-of-concept vehicle ordering system that allows for seamless ordering, payment and pickup of pizzas. The system combines Visa's... Read More

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Activities startup Musement receives 5M euro in funding

By Sean O'Neil | March 5, 2015

Musement, a new tours and activities site and mobile app, said it has received Euro 5 million in Series A funding. Participating in this round are venture firms P101, 360 Capital Partners, Francesc... Read More

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OTAs vs metasearch - a collision course or room for both?

By Pamela Whitby | March 5, 2015

Freedom of choice can be a wonderful thing. But when faced with countless travel websites consumers, more often than not in search of the best deal, can be left feeling confused. NB: This is an ana... Read More

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Making foreign sites work in China, technically, commercially

By Viewpoints | March 5, 2015

Website performance, particularly site speed, is something for foreign operators to consider. NB: This article is written by Ritesh Gupta, a reporter at Chinatravelnews. Capturing the attention... Read More

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This is how many visitors hotels are losing to OTAs via paid search

By Nick Vivion | March 4, 2015

In the fourth quarter of 2014, the average hotel brand lost an estimated 31,653 clicks per month to intermediaries bidding on their trademarks. Brand Verity's report, which looked at a wide cross-s... Read More

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