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New Year pledge: improve the visuals on your hotel website
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New Year pledge: improve the visuals on your hotel website
By Viewpoints | December 9, 2016
High quality hotel visuals increase bookings - that should be enough of an incentive for hotel marketers to create and distribute great visuals, right? But if you’re the type of person who needs mo... Read More
Sabre Labs distils global travel tech into three megatrends
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Sabre Labs distils global travel tech into three megatrends
By Martin Cowen | December 9, 2016
Sabre Labs has launched its first-ever Emerging Technologies in Travel report, identifying the three megatrends it believes will dominate the travel tech landscape in 2017. The megatrends are conne... Read More
Hotels.com tests a mobile app that generates a guest room key
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Hotels.com tests a mobile app that generates a guest room key
By Sean O'Neil | December 8, 2016
Expedia Inc's online travel agency brand Hotels.com is testing a mobile app that will let guests check in and check out — and generate electronic room keys — at partner hotels. The prototype was de... Read More
Expedia tracks bleisure travelers and finds activities drive decisions
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Expedia tracks bleisure travelers and finds activities drive decisions
By Sean O'Neil | December 8, 2016
Expedia Media Solutions, the advertising arm of the technology giant, released a new study on Wednesday that has two distinctive aspects. It focuses on bleisure traveler — a topic that hasn't been muc... Read More
Create loyalty in travel by tracking the competition
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Create loyalty in travel by tracking the competition
By Viewpoints | December 8, 2016
If you’re looking for customer loyalty, you won’t find much of it in the travel industry. NB: This is a viewpoint by Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot. While 74% of business travelers claim to prefer... Read More
Skyscanner CEO: Anatomy of the $1.75 billion Ctrip deal
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Skyscanner CEO: Anatomy of the $1.75 billion Ctrip deal
By Viewpoints | December 8, 2016
Ctrip bought Skyscanner for $1.75 billion in November, in what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest acquisitions to be announced in travel tech during 2016. Such deals do not come together withou... Read More
Trivago planned IPO has analysts purring
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Trivago planned IPO has analysts purring
By Kevin May | December 8, 2016
Analysts appear to be toasting the prospect of trading on Trivago with fairly hefty glasses Mulled Wine, ahead of its recently announced decision to IPO. The Germany-based hotel search engine inten... Read More
Offline-to-online still to happen for TUI Germany
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Offline-to-online still to happen for TUI Germany
By Martin Cowen | December 8, 2016
European travel giant TUI Group continues to increase the proportion of holiday bookings made online in all its major markets other than Germany. In the year to end-Sept16, 43% of bookings across t... Read More
Eviivo receives £3.5 million funding to drive growth
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Eviivo receives £3.5 million funding to drive growth
By Linda Fox | December 8, 2016
Eviivo has received a cash injection of £3.5 million through Barclays' venture debt fund. The company, which helps small hotels and other accommodation players market themselves online through onli... Read More
Cheapflights creates drag-and-drop banner ads for event and flight search
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Cheapflights creates drag-and-drop banner ads for event and flight search
By Kevin May | December 8, 2016
Consumer-facing brands have always needed to make their display advertising as engaging as possible - with the goal, obviously, of selling more stuff. But for ultra competitive travel brands, such... Read More
The what, why and how of blockchain in travel
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The what, why and how of blockchain in travel
By Viewpoints | December 7, 2016
Blockchain technology is in its infancy, but it’s clear that it will change many industries in radical ways. The most brilliant minds of our time are trying to understand all the implications, but it... Read More
Mobile in travel: brave new world
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Mobile in travel: brave new world
By Sponsored Content | December 7, 2016
Mobile is having an impact on the travel industry around the globe, and while there are some constants across geographies, there are also material differences between what the customer demands and how... Read More
Loco2 adds euro payments, plans international presence
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Loco2 adds euro payments, plans international presence
By Martin Cowen | December 7, 2016
Pan-European rail booking service Loco2 can now accept payment in euros after satisfying some demanding "commercial, regulatory and technical" requirements  in France. Co-founder and CEO Jamie Andr... Read More
Startup Pitch: MyTripCar wants to bring honest back to car rental
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Startup Pitch: MyTripCar wants to bring honest back to car rental
By Kevin May | December 7, 2016
MyTripCar says it is not just another car rental comparison site - with transparency around pricing its main message to potential customers. The Spain-based company has been backed by its own count... Read More
EL AL and JetBlue name first five startups for accelerator
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EL AL and JetBlue name first five startups for accelerator
By Linda Fox | December 7, 2016
EL AL and JetBlue venture arms have unveiled the first five startups that will go through the Navigator accelerator program. Navigator was created earlier this year via the EL AL investment arm, Cock... Read More
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