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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Tech initiatives hotels should consider doing right now

By Kevin May | March 2, 2017

Hotels are often reminded of what they should be doing, or encouraged to try new things as the sector gets more competitive than ever. The latest to have a go was Benjamin Habbel, founding CEO of V... Read More

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eDreams sees mobile traffic tipping point in the UK and Italy

By Martin Cowen | March 2, 2017

European OTA eDreams Odigeo says that mobile is now a bigger source of traffic than desktop in the UK and Italy, with the gap closing in almost all the markets it operates in. It found that Italy i... Read More

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Foursquare offers its location superpower to app developers

By Martin Cowen | March 2, 2017

Foursquare is opening up Pilgrim, its proprietary location-based technology, to authorised developers for the first time. In a Medium post, its president Stephen Rosenblatt explained: "By opening... Read More

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Could new mobile biometrics hold the key to global traveller identity?

By Marisa Garcia | March 2, 2017

We’ve been told to expect the end of the passport, replaced by a secure and digital traveller identification. Advancements biometrics—becoming common hardware on smartphones, as presented during th... Read More

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Oktogo goes offline amid speculation over future and angry partners

By Kevin May | March 2, 2017

Strange goings on in Russia, with the fate of online travel agency Oktogo in the balance. The well-backed company's consumer-facing site has been offline this week after a period of claim and count... Read More

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Klook raises $30 million in funding

By Linda Fox | March 1, 2017

Asia-based tours and activities startup Klook has attracted $30 milion in Series B funding. The round is led by Sequoia Capital China with existing investor Matrix Partners which led the startup's... Read More

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