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Are travellers really using mobile to act on impulse?

By Linda Fox | March 4, 2015

Statistics are funny things - they can be twisted and turned for greater impact and when it comes to use of mobile in travel there are volumes of them. As an example - it seems that 46% of smartpho... Read More

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Can hotels use metasearch to compete against OTAs?

By Viewpoints | March 4, 2015

After several years of growth punctuated by major acquisitions, mergers, partnerships, and product launches, travel metasearch looks set to evolve rapidly in 2015 as the line with OTAs continues to bl... Read More

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Chinese outbound leisure trend shifts into the cities

By Martin Cowen | March 4, 2015

IHG and Oxford Economics have released a report into the Chinese outbound travel market, predicting a shift towards long-haul international leisure travel in the next ten years or so. There is no d... Read More

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Data crunching who is using Twitter to give a new vision of a destination

By Kevin May | March 3, 2015

Twitter might be a big echo chamber of noise at the best of times, but there is an enormous amount of data flowing through it. The so-called firehose of activity gives those trying to do interestin... Read More

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HomeAway shares its game plan during investor roadshow

By Sean O'Neil | March 3, 2015

Vacation rental giant HomeAway has been sending its executive team around the US this month to talk to rooms full of investors, to get the word out about its stock. This week, chief executive Brian... Read More

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Control of TripAdvisor is not at risk in the near-term, says chairman

By Sean O'Neil | March 3, 2015

TripAdvisor's fate is not entirely in its own control. But recent speculation about the company's ownership seems to have been overheated. Since TripAdvisor’s initial public offering, controlling i... Read More

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Google to rank brands with Android apps higher in mobile searches

By Nick Vivion | March 3, 2015

Developers, pay attention: Google has changed its ranking algorithm for mobile searches and will prioritize results for those brands with Android apps installed on the searcher's phone. The announc... Read More

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The new Ryanair - a mobile-first travel retailer

By Martin Cowen | March 3, 2015

Ryanair is promising "a big investment in digital and a big investment in data" this year as it enters the second year of its "Always Getting Better" approach. Kenny Jacobs, chief marketing officer... Read More

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Six ways to connect user-generated content with marketing

By Viewpoints | March 3, 2015

Ready to integrate that beautiful picture of a guest enjoying your hotel’s pool into your marketing mix? How about that priceless video of a couple celebrating their honeymoon on the deck of your crui... Read More

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From pizza parlour to global beast of the industry - that would be...

By Kevin May | March 3, 2015

There are many aspects of the TripAdvisor story which are well known - the fact that CEO Steve Kaufer co-founded the business above a pizza shop. Or that fellow founder Langley Steinert now runs a... Read More

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Options Away, an airfare lock startup, raises $3.5 million

By Sean O'Neil | March 2, 2015

Options Away, a provider of a service for locking in airfares as a hedge against airline price hikes, has locked in $3.5 million of fresh funding. The Series A equity round was led by OCA Ventures.... Read More

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THack Berlin - winners, presentations, pictures and more

By Kevin May | March 2, 2015

Nearly 100 developers took part in our debut hackathon in Germany, conveniently timed ahead of this week's ITB Berlin extravaganza. THack Berlin took place at the Factory co-working space in the ci... Read More

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Android to become central nervous system — including seamless translation into any language

By Nick Vivion | March 2, 2015

Seamless translation into any language via a "lightweight wearable" could soon be a reality, suggested Google's mobile czar Sundar Pichai during today's session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelo... Read More

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CreateTrips adds to seed round, explores b2b potential

By Linda Fox | March 2, 2015

Trip planning mobile application CreateTrips has added $800,000 to its seed funding bringing the total to US$1.4 million. The Helsinki-based startup initially secured $600,000 last June with existi... Read More

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Zip lining through the Amazon is Google's next StreetView trick

By Nick Vivion | March 2, 2015

Google is constantly sending its StreetView bubble — called a Trekker — around the world to document every last nook and cranny of the planet. This has led to some fairly interesting deployments of... Read More

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