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Online travel fraud is fraud, it's not the fault of online or travel

By Martin Cowen | April 6, 2016

The British association of travel agencies' latest fraud report has done the rounds in the UK mainstream and trade media, and as usual, the evil internet is to blame for a 425% increase in reported tr... Read More

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Travelport acquires Galileo Japan

By Sean O'Neil | April 5, 2016

Travelport has acquired one of its distributors, Galileo Japan, from a consortium of airlines. The technology company, which runs one of the world's global distribution systems, will build a fresh... Read More

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Lola, a travel concierge startup, closes its $19.7 million Series A

By Sean O'Neil | April 5, 2016

The founding of Lola, a travel technology startup, might feel like the Oceans 11 movie series, as it is bringing together a constellation of industry boldfaced names to pull off an ambitious caper.... Read More

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Cox & Kings sells LateRooms for £20m

By Martin Cowen | April 5, 2016

Indian-based tour operator Cox and Kings (C&K) has sold LateRooms.com for £20 million, less than six months after buying it from TUI Group for only £8.5m. TUI Group declined to specify how much... Read More

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AccorHotels spends big on home rentals with Euro 148 million onefinestay deal

By Martin Cowen | April 4, 2016

AccorHotels has bought upmarket home rentals business onefinestay for Euro 148 million (£117 million) and has earmarked a further Euro 64 million (£50 million) to expand the business internationally.... Read More

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Warburg Pincus-backed Mercator acquires Revenue Management Systems

By Sean O'Neil | April 4, 2016

Mercator, a company backed by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has acquired Seattle-based Revenue Management Systems (RMS), which runs revenue management products for more than 70 airlines, includi... Read More

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Amazon pushes further into payment processing, luring Southwest and others

By Sean O'Neil | April 4, 2016

Amazon has debuted a streamlined method for companies to add its online payments services as an option to the check-out tools they build for consumer-facing companies. The Seattle-based technology... Read More

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Travelsky nabs OpenJaw in GuestLogix asset sale, say sources

By Sean O'Neil | April 4, 2016

This week it is expected to be announced that Dublin-based OpenJaw Technologies has been acquired by China's state-owned Travelsky Technology. Sources say this deal is a court-supervised outcome fo... Read More

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Data suggests airports are wasting their time with mobile apps

By Viewpoints | April 4, 2016

Airports are spending a significant portion of their marketing budgets on customer engagement tools, including a sizable investment in developing mobile applications. By 2018, about 80% of airports wi... Read More

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Virtual reality at the airport - a B2B story

By Linda Fox | April 4, 2016

Virtual reality specialist Visualise has developed a series of 360 degree virtual reality clips at Heathrow Airport. The clips are to be used by the sales force of outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux... Read More

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Alaska Air buys Virgin America, in a merger of airline tech innovators

By Sean O'Neil | April 4, 2016

Alaska Air Group said today it will acquire Virgin America for $2.6 billion in cash. The deal has an aggregate transaction value of about $4 billion, after debt and capitalized aircraft operating leas... Read More

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Hotelbeds sale on track says TUI, three times in one statement

By Martin Cowen | April 4, 2016

TUI Group's pre-close update issued last week talks up the total transaction volume (TTV) and room night growth for Hotelbeds, and says "the disposal process (for the business) is on track". The st... Read More

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Clock watching - guests want hotel wifi connection within seven minutes

By Kevin May | April 1, 2016

Nobody in the industry still denies that providing a free connection to customers is as important a consideration as room towels or running water. And countless surveys mention the expectations tha... Read More

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Expedia programmes marketing campaigns from TV to Facebook and Instagram

By Kevin May | April 1, 2016

Expedia is one of a number of consumer brands that have been first to test a technology that connects the dots between TV and social media advertising. The US-based online travel agency has worked... Read More

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Startup pitch: Homelike gains traction with extended-stay bookings in Europe

By Sean O'Neil | April 1, 2016

Homelike is a Cologne-based startup that helps travelers—mainly corporate ones—book extended-stay accommodation in Europe. Founded in 2014, it claims to have the most online inventory for furnished... Read More

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