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Startup pitch: Stride applies metasearch to tours and adventure travel
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Startup pitch: Stride applies metasearch to tours and adventure travel
By Sean O'Neil | February 22, 2016
Stride Travel is a San Francisco startup that aims to help travelers find their perfect guided trip or tour. It says it is the first metasearch reviews website for all experiential pre-planned trips,... Read More
The Montcalm Mystery - comparison widgets, Booking.com and a PR fail
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The Montcalm Mystery - comparison widgets, Booking.com and a PR fail
By Kevin May | February 22, 2016
The idea of being able to compare rates from online travel agencies on a hotel website seems to get folk hot under the collar at the moment. Triptease has the comparison widget at the heart of its... Read More
GuestLogix is up for sale in court-ordered process
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GuestLogix is up for sale in court-ordered process
By Sean O'Neil | February 22, 2016
GuestLogix, a seller of payment processing technology to travel companies, is on the auction block, following its slip into creditor protection earlier this month. A court has okayed for the Toront... Read More
Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels
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Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels
By Linda Fox | February 22, 2016
Figures from the GBTA Foundation show business travellers from the UK, Germany and France are fairly evenly split between booking via traditional channels and alternative methods. The study shows t... Read More
Thomas Cook India links up with Airbnb for international packages
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Thomas Cook India links up with Airbnb for international packages
By Martin Cowen | February 22, 2016
Indian travellers could soon be able to walk into a branch of Thomas Cook India and book a flight-plus-Airbnb package after the pair announced that they were looking at ways of working together. Ab... Read More
Amadeus brings TripHobo into Next startup circle
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Amadeus brings TripHobo into Next startup circle
By Kevin May | February 22, 2016
Amadeus Next, an incubator-style division focused on nurturing startups in Asia-Pacific, has enlisted TripHobo to its portfolio of new businesses. The trip planning and itinerary service will join... Read More
HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee
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HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee
By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016
This week HomeAway, the vacation rental platform, began rolling out a traveler fee to its US websites (HomeAway, VRBO, and VacationRentals.com), with a plan to introduce the fees globally later this y... Read More
In 2015, TripAdvisor grew its vacation rental listings 18%, to 770,000
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In 2015, TripAdvisor grew its vacation rental listings 18%, to 770,000
By PhocusWire | February 19, 2016
TripAdvisor is quiet about its vacation rental businesses, at least relative to the noise its competitors like HomeAway and Airbnb make about their own services-- and compared with how much the Massac... Read More
Travel tech industry smells money in gigantic new Istanbul airport
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Travel tech industry smells money in gigantic new Istanbul airport
By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016
Turkey is on track to spend more than $5 billion on Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA), which -- if it fulfills its ambitions -- will have six runways and four terminals. By the end of next year, its fir... Read More
Travel companies silent on the US vs Apple debate, so far
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Travel companies silent on the US vs Apple debate, so far
By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016
Yesterday the technology industry was in an uproar over a US government request made of Apple relating to the security protections on an iPhone. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked a... Read More
B2B revenues double for Skyscanner
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B2B revenues double for Skyscanner
By Martin Cowen | February 19, 2016
Skyscanner's 2015 results show how the Edinburgh-based tech business is building a global consumer presence at the same time as its B2B unit has doubled revenues in a year. Mobile is driving the co... Read More
Qyer users respond positively to French connections
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Qyer users respond positively to French connections
By Martin Cowen | February 18, 2016
Destination consultancy Resonance has tried a different approach to analysing the Chinese outbound market by data-mining reviews  posted onto Qyer.com. It looked at 1.2 million reviews of 94,000 at... Read More
Choice Hotels opens a vacation rental platform to (kind of) compete with Airbnb
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Choice Hotels opens a vacation rental platform to (kind of) compete with Airbnb
By Juliana Shallcross | February 18, 2016
Making good on its promise from last month, Choice Hotels confirmed that it will start offering vacation rentals. Choice Hotels CEO Steve Joyce had hinted at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit... Read More
Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth
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Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth
By Kevin May | February 18, 2016
Travelport hopes to strengthen its position as one of the leading hotel distributors after seeing its total number of booked room nights increased to 65 million in 2015. The company has no stated a... Read More
Twitter offers Delta and other airlines customer support prompts
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Twitter offers Delta and other airlines customer support prompts
By Sean O'Neil | February 18, 2016
Airlines are among many companies that interact with customers via Twitter for customer service complaints. Today Twitter pulled the wraps off "customer support prompts," which should help airline sta... Read More
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