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Why rolling up hotel technology companies is the hot trend of the moment

By Sean O'Neil | July 3, 2014

Anyone looking at the mergers and acquisitions of the past year would know that there is something in the air. Big, brand-name firms have been jockeying to acquire technology companies that provide... Read More

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Checking in with Checkmate, Drew Patterson’s B2B hotel tech mobile tool

By Sean O'Neil | July 3, 2014

Drew Patterson was a director at Starwood in its golden days, when the W and Westin's Heavenly Bed were born. He was with metasearch website Kayak before its billion-dollar initial public offering.... Read More

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Booking.com and Sabre blow their hotel inventory trumpet

By Kevin May | July 3, 2014

Following HomeAway's milestone of reaching one million properties last week, now it's the turn of Booking.com and Sabre to join in. Priceline-owned Booking.com has been busily telling everyone this... Read More

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Startup pitch: TripExpert wants to bring the expert back into hotel reviews

By Karthick Prabu | July 3, 2014

TripExpert is perhaps going against the grain, in that it doesn't take the crowd-source approach to collecting hotel reviews. Instead, it has gone back to the old school, in some respects, aggregat... Read More

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Rome2Rio takes $1.1 million, aims to add 100,000 attractions to trip planning tool

By Karthick Prabu | July 3, 2014

Multi-modal travel search engine Rome2rio has secured a further $1.1 million as it looks to extend its coverage to include attractions. The grant comes from the Commercialisation Australia, an inve... Read More

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Forrester analysis shows expenses continued to be entered manually despite automation

By Nick Vivion | July 2, 2014

Forrester Consulting has released a study on the state of travel and expense management, as seen from the perspectives of 348 financial decision-makers across companies with 500 or more employees glob... Read More

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Smarty pants meet Smarty Pins, the new travel game from Google

By Nick Vivion | July 2, 2014

"Putting trivia on the map" is the tagline from the new travel trivia game from the Google team. The game places trivia questions within the context of a map, which creates an engaging place-specific... Read More

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In an evil world, great travel content is THE essential weapon

By Pamela Whitby | July 2, 2014

When it comes to the big search debate, two clichés seem to apply - you get what you pay for and if you put in the effort you will reap the rewards. Still, whether you are shelling out or relying o... Read More

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How to avoid negative online reviews from hotel guests by being great offline

By Patrick Landman | July 2, 2014

In the hotel industry, no matter how much you are on top of your game, and how hard you try, sometimes things simply do not go as planned. No worries, it is natural that mistakes or mishaps happen... Read More

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BlaBlaCar turns ignition on global expansion with $100 million funding round

By Karthick Prabu | July 1, 2014

BlaBlaCar has raised $100 million in a Series C capital round led by Index Ventures. Existing investors - Accel Partners, ISAI and Lead Edge Capital - also participated in the round for the the Par... Read More

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How does your hotel manage virtual credit card payments?

By Viewpoints | July 1, 2014

WEX Inc, in partnership with the Portland Research Group, recently conducted a research study which provides insights into hotel acceptance of virtual credit card payment in the travel vertical. NB... Read More

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Startup pitch: Growth hacker Zilyo applies metasearch to vacation and peer-to-peer rentals

By Sean O'Neil | July 1, 2014

In 2013, Hamed Al-Khabaz was kicked out of Montreal’s Dawson College after stumbling upon a giant security flaw in one of its major computer systems. A couple of months later, in April 2013, he and... Read More

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NDC - capable of its lofty ambitions or dead in the water?

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | July 1, 2014

New Distribution Capability gets tentative approval in the US but is it too little, too late and at what cost? NB: This is part one of a two part analysis looking at the technology and commercial i... Read More

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Why the travel industry needs the web to remain open and neutral

By Viewpoints | July 1, 2014

I have a dream of a perfect, utopian internet. But regulators have other ideas. Here in the US, for example, the Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules which will allow Internet Servi... Read More

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Just one per cent of travellers plan trips in the last 24 hours

By Karthick Prabu | July 1, 2014

Despite the rise of same-day booking services, apparently just 1% of leisure and business travellers plan their trip within the final 24-hour window. Digital marketing agency Sociomantic asked 1,00... Read More

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