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Priceline and Baidu increase stake in Ctrip
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Priceline and Baidu increase stake in Ctrip
By Martin Cowen | September 7, 2016
Ctrip has announced that existing shareholders Baidu and Priceline Group have lifted their stake in the business. China's biggest OTA has released a flurry of related financial announcements over t... Read More
TripAdvisor redesign puts activities front and centre alongside hotels
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TripAdvisor redesign puts activities front and centre alongside hotels
By Kevin May | September 7, 2016
More evidence that TripAdvisor has moved a long way from its original hotel review offering - with a redesign and strapline that shows how important bookings have become. The new site, officially r... Read More
Looking at Liam's travel micro-moments
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Looking at Liam's travel micro-moments
By Linda Fox | September 7, 2016
Google continues to release interesting snippets around search behaviour in travel as part of its travel micro-moments marketing push. Just two months ago, it unveiled a Playbook as a guide to the... Read More
Seekda buys Regatta Travel Solutions, booking and metasearch tech combine
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Seekda buys Regatta Travel Solutions, booking and metasearch tech combine
By Kevin May | September 6, 2016
Regatta Travel Solutions has ended six years as an independent company and been bought by Austrian travel technology shop Seekda. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The deal will put t... Read More
Hilton claims new level of personalisation for mobile never seen before
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Hilton claims new level of personalisation for mobile never seen before
By Kevin May | September 6, 2016
The summer in the northern hemisphere must be over - with a mightily bold claim coming out of Hilton this week to welcome industry folk back to work. The global hotel chain says it has developed a... Read More
OTAs aren't so bad after all - Expedia to power Marriott packages channel
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OTAs aren't so bad after all - Expedia to power Marriott packages channel
By Kevin May | September 6, 2016
Online travel agencies have been powering elements of third party websites for years - but here is one deal that flies in the face of the current direct-intermediary saga. Expedia and Marriott have... Read More
Mobile app startups: TripUniq, Esplorio and Btrfly
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Mobile app startups: TripUniq, Esplorio and Btrfly
By PhocusWire | September 6, 2016
This is a regular roundup of some of the latest mobile application startup launches in travel covering everything from trip inspiration and planning to virtual assistants. TripUniq What doe... Read More
Airlines with digital DNA can overcome economic headwinds
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Airlines with digital DNA can overcome economic headwinds
By Martin Cowen | September 6, 2016
IBS Software's executive chairman V K Mathews believes airlines need a robust digital business strategy to cope commercially with external factors over which they have no control. At an IBS event i... Read More
VizEat bites off €3.8 million to help MICE and leisure travelers share meals with locals
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VizEat bites off €3.8 million to help MICE and leisure travelers share meals with locals
By Sean O'Neil | September 6, 2016
VizEat, a startup that helps people meet and eat home-cooked meals with locals, has received a fresh funding round of €3.8 million. The round included participation by British investment firm Eurov... Read More
British Airways apologises after major check-in outage
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British Airways apologises after major check-in outage
By Kevin May | September 6, 2016
Passengers faced delays and problems checking in for flights this morning after IT issues at British Airways. The problem first surfaced when passengers trying to board in the evening on Monday (5t... Read More
Passenger mobiles used to manage taxi queues at airports
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Passenger mobiles used to manage taxi queues at airports
By Kevin May | September 5, 2016
Airports are using an alternative to beacon technology in order to manage and improve long-standing issues around taxi queues. Whilst still using mobile devices to work out passenger flows and how... Read More
How to tell if your marketing is driving incremental revenues
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How to tell if your marketing is driving incremental revenues
By Viewpoints | September 5, 2016
Your marketing team deployed a customer-level mobile promotion for a discounted upgrade and it yielded a high redemption rate. Success! Or was it? NB: This is a viewpoint by Cornelius Kaestner, sen... Read More
TripAdvisor and Booking.com take half of luxury hotel reviews on the web
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TripAdvisor and Booking.com take half of luxury hotel reviews on the web
By Kevin May | September 5, 2016
It is probably no surprise that TripAdvisor commands such a large portion of online hotel reviews - but Booking.com is chasing its tale. At least this is the case of hotels identified in the "luxur... Read More
Ten years of the .travel domain extension - did it work?
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Ten years of the .travel domain extension - did it work?
By Kevin May | September 2, 2016
Those with reasonably long memories will recall the sudden burst of attention when the dot-travel domain extensions were launched in the mid-2000s. Under the auspices of an organisation called Tral... Read More
Ctrip quiet on global plans, prioritises supply for China outbound
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Ctrip quiet on global plans, prioritises supply for China outbound
By Martin Cowen | September 2, 2016
China's biggest OTA Ctrip is concentrating on building its international inventory for its core Chinese users, CEO James Liang told analysts. On its Q2 earnings call this week, Liang was asked abou... Read More
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