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Rentivo turns down institutional investment offers, opts for crowd-funded backing

By Kevin May | April 13, 2016

Vacation rental technology provider Rentivo reckons it will snub the money people and secure funding from its customer base. The company says it has opted for the crowd-funded approach in a bid to... Read More

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Expedia turns back the clock for London visitors

By Kevin May | April 13, 2016

Expedia has switched to the UK capital of London in a bid to add more bells and whistles to its destination pages. Historic London is a microsite available from the Expedia UK website which combine... Read More

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Amtrak works to boost its wifi speeds, but faces delays

By Sean O'Neil | April 12, 2016

Amtrak says it has expanded the coverage of its cellular-based wifi service on several more long-distance trains, which means that 90%, or 28 million, of its customers now ride trains with wifi. (It's... Read More

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For any travel query, Facebook Messenger thinks there's a bot for that

By Sean O'Neil | April 12, 2016

Today at Facebook's annual global developer conference in San Francisco, the company gave outside developers coding tools and tips on how to build chatbots, or text-based interactive services, for the... Read More

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Time Out buys HallStreet travel startup in acqui-hire move

By Kevin May | April 12, 2016

Destination guide publisher Time Out has acquired events marketplace startup HallStreet - and promptly shut it down. Terms of the sale have not been disclosed. Co-founders of HallStreet, Alfredo... Read More

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Startup pitch: Triporia brings what you need to book hotels to one page

By Linda Fox | April 12, 2016

Triporia is a UK-based hotel comparison site that thinks of itself as an Excel sheet for hotel rates. The idea is to provide rates to consumers quickly, enabling them to get a picture of the location... Read More

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Ryanair to launch next wave of digital services

By Kevin May | April 12, 2016

European low cost carrier Ryanair will introduce a string of new tools and service this year as part of the next phase of its digital turnaround project. The company says it will begin the third ye... Read More

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Airbnb is forecast to have $12.3 billion in bookings in 2016

By Sean O'Neil | April 11, 2016

Hard data on the financials of private company Airbnb are notoriously difficult to nail down. But a new estimate by US investment bank Cowen & Company predicts that the bookings site will process... Read More

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Turkish Airlines plugs into the world of travel startups

By Kevin May | April 11, 2016

Turkish Airlines is the latest to tap into the startup ecosystem following its backing for the Plug and Play accelerator scheme for newbies in travel. The airline says it will be one of the support... Read More

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Startup pitch: WhereisWhere wants to map the travel world

By Linda Fox | April 11, 2016

WhereisWhere is a map-based tourism marketing platform enabling businesses to load and manage their content on the site and directly connect with travellers. The Singapore-based business is current... Read More

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HomeRez woos Euro 4 million from Expedia vet and others, plots expansion

By Kevin May | April 11, 2016

Vacation rental online booking and distribution service HomeRez has banked Euro 4 million from a panel of angel investors and two financial houses. Investing in the two-year-old company are Entrepr... Read More

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Airlines shouldn't worry about Google Flights' latest moves

By Viewpoints | April 11, 2016

Google has been investing substantially in its flights metasearch product, turning it into a more useful tool for consumers who are still in the "inspiration" stage. NB: This is a guest viewpoint b... Read More

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Expedia-backed Wingz, the airport ride service, talks expansion

By Kristine Hansen | April 8, 2016

Geoff Mathieux was on his way to the airport one day when he had an idea for a business start-up. Would it be possible to get a ride from someone else also en route to catch a flight? And so Wingz... Read More

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Japan to test fingerprint-based ID and payments for foreign visitors

By Sean O'Neil | April 8, 2016

Apple's Touch ID, which lets a fingerprint unlock the iPhone, has revived interest around the world in the century-old method of fingerprint analysis and its possible uses. This summer, the Japanes... Read More

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Is it time to move on from Millennials and put some thought to Gen Z?

By Linda Fox | April 8, 2016

When you think about how much time and column inches are given over to marketing to Millennials, perhaps it's time to start thinking about the next generation. Some recent research from Childwise s... Read More

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