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Uber can now claim global popularity milestone
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Uber can now claim global popularity milestone
By Kevin May | August 25, 2016
Uber is the most widely used ride-hailing service in 108 countries around the world, according to new data from SimilarWeb. The analysis by the digital measurement company examined services in 171... Read More
TripAdvisor lists hotels on Google, Kayak, and Trivago, edging closer to meta metasearch
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TripAdvisor lists hotels on Google, Kayak, and Trivago, edging closer to meta metasearch
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2016
Over the past couple of months, TripAdvisor has been participating in Google's hotel metasearch program. For selected hotels, consumers are seeing TripAdvisor as a place to book. Clicking on th... Read More
TripAdvisor acquires Citymaps, a social mapping startup
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TripAdvisor acquires Citymaps, a social mapping startup
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2016
TripAdvisor has acquired Citymaps, a New York City-based, social-mapping startup. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. A year ago, Citymaps raised a $6 million financing round -- with Nokia Gr... Read More
Excursiopedia becomes PlanetPass, starts small with guided tours
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Excursiopedia becomes PlanetPass, starts small with guided tours
By Linda Fox | August 24, 2016
Tours and activities specialist Excursiopedia has morphed into PlanetPass, a mobile application that helps consumers find guided tours in destinations. PlanetPass is now available for London with a... Read More
Airports and passengers in harmony - big opportunity for agencies to play a part
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Airports and passengers in harmony - big opportunity for agencies to play a part
By Viewpoints | August 24, 2016
The value-add being delivered by travel agencies is dwindling, fast - and this is more acute for so-called brick-and-mortar businesses. NB: This is an analysis by Manu Agrawal, a senior business co... Read More
In a first, Expedia promotes a hotel’s loyalty rates and rewards program
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In a first, Expedia promotes a hotel’s loyalty rates and rewards program
By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016
Expedia, Inc., is the first online travel intermediary to begin displaying a hotel chain's discounted loyalty rates next to standard rates. It's also the first to cheerlead for a hotel's own loyalty p... Read More
StayNTouch touts its mobile hotel tech integration at MGM's Aria Las Vegas
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StayNTouch touts its mobile hotel tech integration at MGM's Aria Las Vegas
By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016
One of the big hotel industry themes lately has been the transition from server-based property management systems (which are not designed for touch and tablet devices) to ones that are cloud-based, mo... Read More
OneFineStay enlists Accor expertise to boost expansion
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OneFineStay enlists Accor expertise to boost expansion
By Kevin May | August 23, 2016
Upmarket property rental brand OneFineStay is accelerating its global ambitions, thanks to its recent acquisition by global hotel chain Accor. The first new city for the company to target will be M... Read More
A few numbers on online travel fraud
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A few numbers on online travel fraud
By Linda Fox | August 23, 2016
Online fraud prevention specialist Riskified has pulled together some of its data to provide a picture of where and how fraud is most likely to occur. The good news is that 98% of online flight ord... Read More
FlightGlobal snap up FlightStats and Diio
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FlightGlobal snap up FlightStats and Diio
By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016
FlightGlobal, a data services and media brand owned by Reed Business Information, has acquired FlightStats, an airline data services firm, and Diio, a provider of airline market intelligence tools.... Read More
KLM wants flight transparency, adds reviews and ratings to search results
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KLM wants flight transparency, adds reviews and ratings to search results
By Kevin May | August 23, 2016
Netherlands-based airline KLM reckons it can enhance its relationship with passengers and improve customer service with the introduction of a reviews system. The "Rate My Flight" idea has been in t... Read More
Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | August 23, 2016
The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L... Read More
Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and Wotif quietly add natural language search to their homepages
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Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and Wotif quietly add natural language search to their homepages
By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016
Last month, Expedia Inc quietly rolled out natural-language search to its platforms. The "Search Anything" feature has been added as a tab to the homepages of most of its English-language platform sit... Read More
Chinese airlines aim to improve their international websites and apps
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Chinese airlines aim to improve their international websites and apps
By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016
Chinese airlines are slowly improving their foreign websites’ and apps' content and e-commerce capabilities, as the carriers expand globally. For instance, Spring Airlines is working with Booking.c... Read More
Some travel search queries are now almost exclusively on mobile devices
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Some travel search queries are now almost exclusively on mobile devices
By Kevin May | August 22, 2016
The vast majority of searches for travel-related terms such as "5-star" and "best time to visit" are now beginning on a mobile or tablet device. Hitwise recently analysed the web activity of some t... Read More
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