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Our shrinking world, illustrated with travel data
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Our shrinking world, illustrated with travel data
By Kevin May | January 7, 2016
Ever heard of an "isochronic map"? Nope, neither had we until this bit of number-crunching from Rome2Rio came our way. The multi-modal travel search engine has worked out how long it takes a travel... Read More
Startup pitch: MaxMilhas, a miles broker, ascends in Brazil
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Startup pitch: MaxMilhas, a miles broker, ascends in Brazil
By Sean O'Neil | January 6, 2016
MaxMilhas is a Brazilian marketplace for brokering the buying and selling of frequent flier miles. Since it began two years ago this month, more than 70,000 airline tickets have been purchased thro... Read More
Going on safari? There's now virtual reality for that
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Going on safari? There's now virtual reality for that
By Kevin May | January 6, 2016
After years in the doldrums (well, nobody really caring), virtual reality could very well be The Thing in 2016. Various devices (from the expensive to the simple Google Cardboard) have come on the... Read More
Booking.com wants to capture consumer resolutions
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Booking.com wants to capture consumer resolutions
By Kevin May | January 6, 2016
If the turn of the New Year is all about marketing destinations to wannabe travellers, then the industry should always expect some quirky ideas to come forward. Step up, Booking.com, which today un... Read More
Qyer picks up $60 million
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Qyer picks up $60 million
By Martin Cowen | January 6, 2016
Chinese outbound specialist and travel community Qyer.com has secured $60 million in funding, with Alibaba's investment arm contributing to the Series D round. Alibaba led Qyer's $10 million Series... Read More
Momondo Group puts faith in cuddly approach to metasearch
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Momondo Group puts faith in cuddly approach to metasearch
By Kevin May | January 6, 2016
Momondo Group is celebrating what it claims is a milestone for its Cheapflights brand - half a million visits in a single day. The company says it achieved the accolade across desktop, mobile and a... Read More
Two major Chinese airlines shut up their Qunar shop
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Two major Chinese airlines shut up their Qunar shop
By Viewpoints | January 5, 2016
Qunar is rarely out of the headlines these days as the market attempts to understand the implications of its new equity and business relationship with Ctrip. This week Qunar announced that its CEO... Read More
SilverCar drives away with $28 million investment from Audi
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SilverCar drives away with $28 million investment from Audi
By Kevin May | January 5, 2016
Must have been something in the mulled wine over Christmas in the world of car manufacturing - there's another big investment in a ground transportation sector. SilverCar, the US-based luxury airport... Read More
Booking.com's COO on what's next for the travel dynamo
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Booking.com's COO on what's next for the travel dynamo
By Sean O'Neil | January 5, 2016
Tnooz recently spoke with Gillian Tans, chief operating officer (COO) of Booking.com in Amsterdam, to find out the latest about the world's largest online seller of hotel rooms. Tnooz: What was a b... Read More
Why 2016 needs to be the year of the digital guest standard
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Why 2016 needs to be the year of the digital guest standard
By Viewpoints | January 5, 2016
The hotel market is renowned for its inertia and late adoption to technological innovations. Yet, it was one of the first industries to move online around 1995/1996 (when Travelocity and Expedia fi... Read More
Shazam can be a neat marketing tool, but travel brands aren't listening
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Shazam can be a neat marketing tool, but travel brands aren't listening
By Kevin May | January 5, 2016
Many travel companies claim to be "joined-up" with their marketing efforts these days - but still they appear to forget there is more to it than showing a fancy ad. A case in point is the latest ru... Read More
JFK tracks mobile phones to ease passenger queues
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JFK tracks mobile phones to ease passenger queues
By Kevin May | January 5, 2016
New York City's JFK Airport is trying a new and different method of cutting down on wait times - crowd-sourcing passenger mobile signals. The city and region's busiest commercial airport is histori... Read More
Uber Travel may challenge Expedia, TripCase, everyone -- if it's serious
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Uber Travel may challenge Expedia, TripCase, everyone -- if it's serious
By Sean O'Neil | January 4, 2016
Uber, the transportation network company, was granted a patent before Christmas for a digital interface that looks a lot like travel metasearch. The tool would provide travel booking, just as are p... Read More
Lyft drives away with $500M from General Motors, plus $500M from others
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Lyft drives away with $500M from General Motors, plus $500M from others
By Kevin May | January 4, 2016
Ride-sharing business Lyft has landed a $1 billion investment round - half of which is coming from car manufacturer General Motors. The Series F round will apparently the company in a $5 billion+ v... Read More
Qunar rings the C-suite changes
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Qunar rings the C-suite changes
By Martin Cowen | January 4, 2016
Qunar has promoted its head of mobile to chief executive officer with immediate effect as part of a New Year management shake-up which sees current CEO and co-founder Chenchao “CC” Zhuang become a spe... Read More
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