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Google Maps to get hotel pricing from Pegasus Solutions
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Google Maps to get hotel pricing from Pegasus Solutions
By Dennis Schaal | March 3, 2011
Google is continuing its drive to get hotel-direct pricing into Google Maps and is working with Pegasus Solutions to up the ante.... Read More
TravelButton app puts hotel phone services on your smartphone
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TravelButton app puts hotel phone services on your smartphone
By Dennis Schaal | March 3, 2011
After checking in at the hotel, you go out for dinner and want to order your hotel wake-up call for the next morning or see if anyone left you a message on the hotel room phone.... Read More
US Airways in press release spat with partner Sabre
By Dennis Schaal | March 3, 2011
The ink was hardly signed in the new US Airways and Sabre full-content agreement when the airline publicly took Sabre to task in -- of all things -- a press release.... Read More
Room 77 vs Hipmunk - re-examining the online travel user experience
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Room 77 vs Hipmunk - re-examining the online travel user experience
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | March 3, 2011
With Hipmunk and Room77 the current darlings of the Valley crowd, it is perhaps time to revisit the user experience of travel sites.... Read More
Top travel websites in Brazil - February 26 2011
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Top travel websites in Brazil - February 26 2011
By PhocusWire | March 3, 2011
Most popular travel websites in Brazil for the week ending February 26 2011.... Read More
Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
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Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
By Viewpoints | March 3, 2011
High-quality, SEO-friendly content can improve much more than your hotel website’s organic ranking.... Read More
Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
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Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
By Viewpoints | March 3, 2011
High-quality, SEO-friendly content can improve much more than your hotel website’s organic ranking.... Read More
Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
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Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
By Viewpoints | March 3, 2011
High-quality, SEO-friendly content can improve much more than your hotel website’s organic ranking.... Read More
Sunshine.co.uk stokes Hoseasons row with mock rainy UK website
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Sunshine.co.uk stokes Hoseasons row with mock rainy UK website
By Kevin May | March 3, 2011
A row between online travel agency Sunshine.co.uk and Hoseasons has stepped up a gear with the creation of a website to poke fun at the UK domestic tour operator.... Read More
EasyJet Holidays site goes live, targets Thomson and Thomas Cook
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EasyJet Holidays site goes live, targets Thomson and Thomas Cook
By Kevin May | March 3, 2011
Four months in development, the new EasyJet Holidays vertically integrated tour operator went live today.... Read More
Top travel websites in France - February 26 2011
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Top travel websites in France - February 26 2011
By PhocusWire | March 2, 2011
Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending February 26 2011.... Read More
Kayak secret weapon in Google Travel competition -- innovation velocity
By Dennis Schaal | March 2, 2011
Can Kayak compete with Google if, as expected, Google gets more involved in the travel industry?... Read More
Part Five - Tripbod in the Valley video diary
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Part Five - Tripbod in the Valley video diary
By Kevin May | March 2, 2011
With the Launch Conference behind it, Tripbod ventures out of San Francisco to head south toward Palo Alto, spiritual home of the California startup scene.... Read More
Embassy Suites returns to TV advertising with More More campaign
By Dennis Schaal | March 2, 2011
Talk about an integrated marketing campaign? Embassy Suites intends to launch a $15 million integrated brand awareness campaign March 6 which includes TV, online advertising, in-flight entertainment systems and the CNN Airport Network.... Read More
Top travel websites in New Zealand - February 26 2011
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Top travel websites in New Zealand - February 26 2011
By PhocusWire | March 2, 2011
Most popular travel websites in New Zealand for the week ending February 26 2011:... Read More