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Metasearch mobile war begins: Skyscanner integrates hotels and car rental

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

It's been a long time coming, but Skyscanner can finally go head-to-head with arch-rival Kayak on their respective mobile applications. The UK-based metasearch engine has this week added both hotel... Read More

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Inspirock prioritises engineering and awareness, sees stellar growth

By Martin Cowen | July 21, 2016

Trip planning site Inspirock has created significantly more itineraries in the first half of 2016 than it did in the whole of 2015, according to co-founder Prakash Sikchi. He told Tnooz that in the... Read More

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Foursquare thinks it can add some data magic to the travel industry

By Linda Fox | July 21, 2016

Foursquare talked about enterprise solutions for its location data early in 2016 when it announced its $45m in funding. The company, traditionally known for check-ins, talked up its programmatic ad... Read More

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Expedia buys travel photo sharing and destination guide Trover

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

Funny how these things turn out - but Expedia Inc has bought the once heavily touted Trover for an undisclosed fee. In short, Trover is a social travel guide in pictures, on desktop and mobile, ena... Read More

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Canadian online travel consolidation as iTravel2000 sells to RedTag

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

The mid-tier online travel agency market in Canada has got smaller this week with the acquisition of iTravel2000 by Red Label Holdings. Red Label is the parent company behind rival OTA RedTag, as w... Read More

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Europcar Lab buys stake in Wanderio

By Martin Cowen | July 20, 2016

Paris-listed Europcar has announced the latest investment by its Lab unit - a minority stake in Italian multimodal search and comparison platform Wanderio. Neither the size of the stake nor the amo... Read More

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Top airlines now earning more than a third of revenue from add-on services

By Linda Fox | July 20, 2016

Airline ancillary revenue has taken off (literally) in the past seven years with the top 10 carriers earning $8.4bn in 2008 compared to the $26bn earned last year. The amount of ancillary revenue o... Read More

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Four payment habits which are eating into agency margins

By Sponsored Content | July 20, 2016

Most executives would agree on the importance of change and constant evolution for businesses to remain competitive. Yet when it comes to supplier payments, methods are based on habits with little pro... Read More

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WhereisWhere pins way for location-based direct bookings

By Martin Cowen | July 20, 2016

Singapore-based travel marketing platform WhereisWhere is building up its global supplier database in advance of its consumer launch, and claims to offer another way for travel firms to sell direct to... Read More

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Online travel data snapshot on Rio 2016 Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | July 20, 2016

The Rio 2016 Olympics is just weeks away and, inevitably, travel brands have spent months (probably even years) ensuring there is enough capacity to transport and house visitors. But that enthusias... Read More

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Nearly one in ten US hotels try to capture some Pokemon Go action

By Kevin May | July 20, 2016

There are always bandwagons to jump on and now there is Pokemon Go, one of the most high-profile mobile phenomenon of recent years. The Niantic-run application, for those with their heads in the sa... Read More

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Travel brands need to be creative when thinking about programmatic

By Viewpoints | July 19, 2016

Programmatic advertising - the ability to target infinite audience segments across the web - means that serving the same, generic advertisements to all your target audiences is no longer an effective... Read More

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Personas are back in latest state of business travel report

By Linda Fox | July 19, 2016

Concur has studied its booking and expense data to come up with a few takeaways on business travel behaviour. There's lots of data around hotel, air and ground transportation spend as well as a loo... Read More

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Tech-led changes to the corporate travel world need a change in travel policy

By Kevin May | July 19, 2016

Corporate travel agencies are at the sharp end of the changes in travel behaviour as options widen and digital connections deepen. In particular, is how companies - large and small - are having to... Read More

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Chinese outbound travelers confirm preference for mobile web over apps

By Martin Cowen | July 19, 2016

The fifth edition of hotels.com's Chinese International Travel Monitor shows that online travel agents are the dominant booking channel for overseas trips from China. The results are based on the r... Read More

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