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Fareportal buys German travel search engine TripCombi

By Kevin May | June 23, 2016

Fareportal, the company behind online travel brands such as CheapoAir and OneTravel, is targeting the European metasearch market with a deal to buy TripCombi. Terms of the acquisition have not been... Read More

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Consumers think Google knows them better than travel brands

By Linda Fox | June 23, 2016

Travel brands are falling short in the personalisation stakes according to the latest research from data specialist Boxever. The Dublin-based company carried out research on 500 consumers revealing... Read More

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Qunar could follow eLong's lead and go private

By Martin Cowen | June 23, 2016

Chinese OTA Qunar has received a "going private" offer from a unit of Chinese travel investment specialists Ocean Imagination. The offer of $10.12 per ordinary share is a 15% premium on the previou... Read More

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What happens when Airbnb muscles in on your business?

By Viewpoints | June 23, 2016

Airbnb is moving into the tours and activities - some think in a very big way. The company has been talking about it a lot recently, not least at a conference I attended. Whilst many gushed and... Read More

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Jovago rebrands to Jumia Travel

By Martin Cowen | June 23, 2016

Africa Internet Group is rebranding its ecommerce operations - including hotel booking site Jovago - under the Jumia brand. Jovago will become Jumia Travel. The new URL is live today, while Jovago.... Read More

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A fifth of business travellers unsure if the likes of Uber and Airbnb are in the travel policy

By Linda Fox | June 23, 2016

The latest GBTA Business Traveler Sentiment contains a few snippets on where so-called sharing economy companies are in the corporate travel space. The study, carried out in conjunction with Amex a... Read More

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Whingers perhaps stay in their hole - two-thirds of hotel reviews are positive

By Kevin May | June 23, 2016

Steve Kaufer used to spend a lot of time in the early days of TripAdvisor talking about how reviews on the site were generally favourable for hotels. This was in part to illustrate that if a guest... Read More

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Google convenes meeting of travel brands to ease tensions

By Kevin May | June 22, 2016

Google has created what it is calling a "Travel Industry Council" in a bid to improve relations with brands around the sector. The group is known to have met over the course of two days earlier thi... Read More

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Where airline execs think ancillaries are heading

By Linda Fox | June 22, 2016

SAS is gradually introducing a new digital platform which the Scandinavian airline says it has been working on for the past 18 months. The launch of the platform, which will be country by country i... Read More

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Tujia strengthens top slot in China's home rentals market

By Martin Cowen | June 22, 2016

Tujia has bought smaller rival Mayi, firming up its position as China's biggest home rentals platform. Coverage on China Travel News adds that 58.com, the Chinese e-commerce marketplace which sold... Read More

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Intent Media acquires Voyat, adds hotel personalisation to arsenal

By Kevin May | June 21, 2016

Digital advertising platform Intent Media has bought Voyat, in a bid to branch out and push into hotel technology services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Voyat is best known for i... Read More

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Mobile dominates Nigeria's hotel bookings

By Martin Cowen | June 21, 2016

One of Nigeria's leading accommodation sites, hotels.ng, has revealed that around 60% of bookings so far this year have come from mobile phones. The site, which picked up $1.2 million in funding j... Read More

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TravelC raises Euro 1 million, takes over Hotelerum

By Kevin May | June 21, 2016

Travel Compositor, better known as TravelC, has brought in Euro 1 million in funding amid an aggressive growth strategy. Venture capital group La Caixa led the round in the Mallorca, Spain-based co... Read More

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Reflections on a pivot: when a travel startup goes from B2C to B2B

By Viewpoints | June 21, 2016

Flightfox just turned four years old. That makes us ancient in startup years. But we've had quite a ride so far. NB: This is a guest analysis by Todd Sullivan, co-founder of Flightfox. Throughou... Read More

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Let the disruption really begin - Chesky hints at Airbnb API

By Martin Cowen | June 21, 2016

Airbnb's founder and CEO Brian Chesky has told the advertising industry's mega-event in Cannes that the business is "financially secure" and that an API is a possibility. The official Cannes Lions... Read More

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