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Hilton inks deal with Amazon as part of guest loyalty shift
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Hilton inks deal with Amazon as part of guest loyalty shift
By Kevin May | January 31, 2017
Global hotel chain Hilton is embarking on an overhaul of its branding and loyalty programme, including a major new partnership with Amazon. First the aesthetic stuff: the group will now be known as... Read More
CarTrawler and Distribusion pact, Sabre distributes Legacy Hotels, and more...
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CarTrawler and Distribusion pact, Sabre distributes Legacy Hotels, and more...
By PhocusWire | January 31, 2017
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel distribution in tourism and hospitality for January 2017. Tuesday 31 January 2017: CarTrawler and Distribusion sign pact CarTr... Read More
Algorithms or agents? There's room for both in travel
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Algorithms or agents? There's room for both in travel
By Sponsored Content | January 31, 2017
There seems to be two rather different realities presented about human interaction with consumers in the travel industry. We hear that the industry is moving to bots and pure online services, yet simu... Read More
APAC travellers want access to agents during the trip
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APAC travellers want access to agents during the trip
By Martin Cowen | January 31, 2017
A report from Sabre's APAC team reveals the need for online and offline agents to connect with travellers during the trip. The study, which covers eleven countries across the region, identifies fou... Read More
HomeAway removes last remnant of independent guest-owner interaction
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HomeAway removes last remnant of independent guest-owner interaction
By Kevin May | January 31, 2017
HomeAway has split opinion over its decision to alter the way in which potential guests can interact with a property's owner. At the turn of 2017, HomeAway shifted the ability for a traveller to fi... Read More
ECommPay looks to Europe, Grab to grow in Indonesia, and more....
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ECommPay looks to Europe, Grab to grow in Indonesia, and more....
By PhocusWire | January 31, 2017
This is a roundup of people moves in tourism and hospitality for January 2017. Tuesday 31 January 2017: ECommPay looks to Europe Payments service provider, ECommPay has named Paul Marcanton... Read More
Abandonment rates in online travel in a couple of slides
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Abandonment rates in online travel in a couple of slides
By Linda Fox | January 31, 2017
Travel execs often bemoan the low conversion rates in online travel - figures often bandied about show average industry conversion rates of around 3%. SaleCycle has just released quarterly figures... Read More
Hilton extends TravelClick deal, Concur drives Groundscope, and more...
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Hilton extends TravelClick deal, Concur drives Groundscope, and more...
By PhocusWire | January 30, 2017
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel systems in tourism and hospitality for January 2017. Monday 30 January 2017: TravelClick and Hilton extend partnership The hot... Read More
Goodbye self-serve travel, hello tech-driven booking with a human touch
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Goodbye self-serve travel, hello tech-driven booking with a human touch
By Sponsored Content | January 30, 2017
“Metasearch on steroids,” is how industry veteran Krista Pappas, the vice president of Lola, describes the firm’s new agent console, a state-of-the-art piece of kit that delivers “super powers” to the... Read More
TripAdvisor secures a tenth of all online travel traffic
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TripAdvisor secures a tenth of all online travel traffic
By Kevin May | January 30, 2017
TripAdvisor provides a regular metric about its global traffic - an eye-watering "390 million average monthly unique visitors" across 49 sites worldwide. But some of the deeper analytics behind its... Read More
Trump's wrecking ball through US data privacy could hit global travel tech industry
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Trump's wrecking ball through US data privacy could hit global travel tech industry
By Martin Cowen | January 30, 2017
New US president Donald Trump has signed, as well all know,  a number of executive orders in his first few weeks in office. Buried in one of them is a line around data privacy which could emerge to... Read More
Airbnb - never mind the volumes, look at the growth
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Airbnb - never mind the volumes, look at the growth
By Martin Cowen | January 27, 2017
Certify's findings for 2016, based on expense claims filed through its system, includes some proper statistics for Airbnb. During the year just gone, Airbnb continued its run of doubling transactio... Read More
Wanderu expands to Europe, Avoya agency promos, GoEuro affiliate launch, and more...
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Wanderu expands to Europe, Avoya agency promos, GoEuro affiliate launch, and more...
By PhocusWire | January 27, 2017
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel marketing in tourism and hospitality for January 2017. Monday 30 January 2017: Wanderu expands to Europe The US-based ground t... Read More
The future of everything in travel (hint: don't look to Silicon Valley)
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The future of everything in travel (hint: don't look to Silicon Valley)
By Viewpoints | January 27, 2017
The Chinese believe that what happens at New Year influences your fortunes in the year ahead. Indeed, understanding China offers an insight into what is going to happen globally within technology a... Read More
Understanding the Airbnb phenomenon, using 3D maps
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Understanding the Airbnb phenomenon, using 3D maps
By Kevin May | January 27, 2017
There are various ways of viewing the rise of Airbnb on both a global and in individual country basis. And, depending on who you ask, you'll inevitably get a different perspective. Hotels are ei... Read More
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