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What is Plug and Play up to in travel?

By Sean O'Neil | June 16, 2016

For many years, a key incubator for startups worldwide has been the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. Founded in 2006 by Saeed Amidi, Plug and Play is a matchmaker for early-stage star... Read More

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Real-time destination action - tickets on a mobile as you approach an attraction

By Kevin May | June 16, 2016

Tours and activities web service Musement will now automatically alert visitors with an offer or ticket when they get close to an attraction. The idea is that many visitors do not consider buying a... Read More

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Groups and meetings growth to outperform overall hotel sector in 2016

By Sponsored Content | June 16, 2016

Worldwide hotel revenues are tipped to hit a record high of $550 billion in 2016, with meetings becoming an increasingly important part of the picture. NB This is a viewpoint by Ross Hoskings, pres... Read More

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IBM and Gogo predict turbulence with detection algorithms and connected aircraft

By Martin Cowen | June 16, 2016

IBM's The Weather Company has linked up with Gogo Business Aviation to address the problem of in-flight turbulence, which costs the aviation industry $100 million a year. Nasdaq-listed Gogo is one... Read More

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Making airline merchandising your DNA

By Linda Fox | June 16, 2016

Tao seems like an amazing woman. She's nearly 98, teaches yoga, is a wine expert and learned ballroom dancing to competition standard in her mid-80s. What's her secret? She says she hasn't finished... Read More

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Booking.com wants to give hotels a better outlook on life

By Kevin May | June 16, 2016

Booking.com's foray into providing B2B services to hotels has been reasonably quiet of late - but the BookingSuite platform has this week added a major tool to its armoury. The RateIntelligence pla... Read More

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Watch out, Uber: Didi Chuxing completes $7.3 billion round [update]

By Sean O'Neil | June 15, 2016

The world's biggest ride-hailing companies, US-based Uber and China-based Didi Chuxing, are smashing records for private-company financing. Didi Chuxing has raised more than $7 billion in cash and... Read More

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Allo, can Google have your attention please, travel execs…

By Viewpoints | June 15, 2016

Most of us will remember the Apple app store debuting in 2008, Passbook being announced in 2012, and even the hasty demo of the redesigned Apple Music this week was hard to miss. NB This is a viewp... Read More

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Amadeus China has a spring in its step

By Viewpoints | June 15, 2016

Spring Airlines is the latest customer win for Amadeus' growing business in China. The deal signed in April is part of Amadeus' drive to "to power Chinese travel companies’ global expansion." Sp... Read More

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Online paid search and display ad marketing spend down in travel

By Kevin May | June 15, 2016

A major analysis of the leading websites in the US has painted an interesting picture of some significant changes taking place in online travel. Web audience metrics provider SimilarWeb examined fi... Read More

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Travelport’s new CCO Shurrock discusses strategy, wraps up tour

By Sean O'Neil | June 15, 2016

In January, Stephen Shurrock became chief commercial officer of Travelport, the UK-based company that provides a technology platform to support travel bookings. He has since been on a listening tour o... Read More

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520 weeks of multimodal

By Viewpoints | June 15, 2016

With routeRANK’s 10th anniversary this month, it has been as many years that I have been working on multimodal travel planning. NB This is a viewpoint by Jochen Mundinger, chairman of routeRANK.... Read More

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NightSwapping brings in Euro 2 million, targets one million members

By Kevin May | June 15, 2016

Alternative accommodation-with-a-twist service NightSwapping has landed a Euro 2 million funding round. The France-based company, which allows travellers to use credits that are then redeemed in pr... Read More

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How could airlines, hotels, agencies, and platforms share data with less friction?

By Sean O'Neil | June 14, 2016

Travelers hope to be respected as the individuals they are. But too often, their booking experiences are homogeneous and impersonal — and so are their flights and hotel stays. One explanation is th... Read More

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Another $600 million for Didi

By Martin Cowen | June 14, 2016

Didi has named its latest investor, with China Life getting on board to the tune of $600 million. The state-owned insurance firm's investment comes a few weeks after Didi picked up $1 billion from... Read More

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