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Engaging travel audiences through 360-degree video
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Engaging travel audiences through 360-degree video
By Viewpoints | March 7, 2017
Imagine being able to invite potential customers into your world from the comfort of their sofa, giving them the chance to experience your destination as they sit down in search of their next adventur... Read More
Tourism boards admit large effort needed for relevancy in digital world
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Tourism boards admit large effort needed for relevancy in digital world
By Kevin May | March 7, 2017
The role and operations of tourism boards have changed massively in recent years as they continue to figure out what their position is in the travel foodchain. Most made the move from being an in-d... Read More
Sabre starts hunt for new airline IT boss
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Sabre starts hunt for new airline IT boss
By Martin Cowen | March 7, 2017
The interesting times continue at Sabre, with the news that Hugh Jones is stepping down as president of its airline IT unit. Jones has some thirty years' experience in the travel sector. Before tak... Read More
GuesttoGuest raises $35 million and buys competitor HomeExchange
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GuesttoGuest raises $35 million and buys competitor HomeExchange
By Kevin May | March 7, 2017
Corporate consolidation in the home-swapping market this week as GuesttoGuest acquires rival brand HomeExchange. Terms of the buy-out have not been disclosed but the move follows a $35 million capi... Read More
Hotel data quality should not be subsumed by the quantity
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Hotel data quality should not be subsumed by the quantity
By Viewpoints | March 7, 2017
The Chinese hospitality industry has the same tech challenges as its global peers, including how to take advantage of ongoing developments in cloud computing, big data and APIs. With hotels running... Read More
ITQ investors getting close to $200 million exit
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ITQ investors getting close to $200 million exit
By Martin Cowen | March 7, 2017
InterGlobe Technology Quotient's (ITQ) CEO Anil Parashar has confirmed that talks are under way for a chunk of the Indian travel tech business to change hands for an estimated $200 million. ITQ is... Read More
Facebook shuffles travel content into City Guides
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Facebook shuffles travel content into City Guides
By Kevin May | March 6, 2017
Facebook has organised some of the travel-related content on the network into a single service known as City Guides. It is not some kind of jaw-dropping, killer app or piece of functionality but, i... Read More
Email marketing for hotels - everything you should be doing (and more)
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Email marketing for hotels - everything you should be doing (and more)
By Viewpoints | March 6, 2017
Here is something that everybody in the hotel industry already knows (or should do): email marketing has become more important than ever. The cost of click and impression-based marketing on search... Read More
Trump, viral videos and social media triage - destinations first!
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Trump, viral videos and social media triage - destinations first!
By Pamela Whitby | March 6, 2017
Last month, a post by Swedish Paralympic athlete Aron Anderson became the latest Trump-related video to go ‘viral’. The video, which has clocked up more than 15 million views, came in response to Trum... Read More
Online fraud drops for US sites in 2016
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Online fraud drops for US sites in 2016
By Martin Cowen | March 6, 2017
Travel sites in the US saw the biggest decline in online fraud attack rates during 2016 from the six verticals analysed in a report from Forter. Its Fraud Attack Index was produced in conjunction w... Read More
VaycayHero sells to RedAwning after service suspension
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VaycayHero sells to RedAwning after service suspension
By Kevin May | March 3, 2017
Branded vacation rental network RedAwning has snapped up the assets of fellow rental startup VaycayHero. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. RedAwning will take on the staff, property rel... Read More
TripAdvisor to close TravelPod travel blogging service
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TripAdvisor to close TravelPod travel blogging service
By Kevin May | March 3, 2017
TripAdvisor is to close the Travelpod platform - the second axing of one its consumer content brands in the space of two months. An official confirmed the fate of the 20-year-old company to Tnooz t... Read More
AccorHotels touts local services in ongoing diversification strategy
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AccorHotels touts local services in ongoing diversification strategy
By Linda Fox | March 3, 2017
AccorHotels boss Sebastien Bazin wants to use the 4,100 hotels in the group to provide local services to people living in the surrounding neighbourhoods. He has been looking at the group's capital... Read More
Sabre's CFO bangs the drum for the joined-up PSS/GDS
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Sabre's CFO bangs the drum for the joined-up PSS/GDS
By Martin Cowen | March 3, 2017
Sabre's CFO Rick Simonson has outlined the importance of using insights from its passenger reservation and airline IT products to help airlines sell via the direct and indirect channel. Speaking at... Read More
Hotels mostly post images on Facebook but videos get most engagement
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Hotels mostly post images on Facebook but videos get most engagement
By Kevin May | March 3, 2017
Facebook has become the place-to-be for brands to establish a presence alongside their existing web channels, primarily because it's a two-way street. As we all know, fan pages allow hotels to post... Read More
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