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Why you should never consider a travel planning startup

By Viewpoints | January 14, 2016

Having founded WorldMate and Desti (which also swallowed Plnnr), not a week goes by without me being approached by an entrepreneur who has started/is starting/is contemplating a travel startup. NB:... Read More

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Who's taking off and who's on the ground in inflight wifi [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | January 14, 2016

Wifi, preferably fast and free, is what business travellers crave whilst on the road to stay productive and stay in touch with home. Inflight wifi as a service is growing rapidly with data from Rou... Read More

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SavvyMob raises seed round to target millennials

By Linda Fox | January 14, 2016

Last-minute hotel booking service SavvyMob has confirmed seed investment led by Aarin Capital. Angel investors from online funding platform Lets Venture and some of India's businesses also contribu... Read More

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India's hotel receptionists take more bookings than the OTAs

By Martin Cowen | January 13, 2016

Millward Brown research has identified walk-ins as the dominant channel for hotel bookings in India. In fact, more than one in four hotel bookings across India are made this way. In a glass half-fu... Read More

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Hostelbookers rebrand and redesign, Musement tops Apple charts, and more...

By PhocusWire | January 13, 2016

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for January 2016. Thursday 14 January 2016: Hostelbookers rebrands, gets new site The Host... Read More

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Boeing rethinks airplane cabins as wrap-around screens [VIDEO]

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2016

A concept video from the product development team at US planemaker Boeing demonstrates how lighting projections on the walls and bulkheads of airplanes, along with projection TVs, could be used to dis... Read More

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Uber's growth comes with staggering losses

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2016

Uber is losing more money than it’s producing -- and the gap is widening over time, according to financial documents seen by The Information. The transportation network company is seeing strong rev... Read More

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Groups that stay together, pay together

By Sponsored Content | January 13, 2016

This is a special time of year for group travel. As we return to work amidst the post-festive season slump we can escape to thoughts of our next big holiday, reconvene with traveling companions, and b... Read More

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Is travel retailing finally about to take off?

By Kevin May | January 13, 2016

It's been talked about as the Next Big Thing for quite some time now, but many are now saying that 2016 is the year that travel retailing reaches a critical point in its evolution. The idea is that... Read More

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Alitrip shifts focus to outbound with US agency partnerships

By Martin Cowen | January 13, 2016

Alibaba's travel brand Alitrip is building partnerships in countries where it anticipates demand from "young, affluent and mobile" Chinese travellers. The US is one of its priorities, and earlier t... Read More

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Investing your online travel marketing budget in 2016 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | January 12, 2016

There's no shortage of ways to invest your annual online marketing budget from video and social media to brand websites and third parties. MDG Advertising has come up with the following infographic... Read More

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TripAdvisor reaps benefits of Booking.com deal

By Kevin May | January 12, 2016

The ink on the landmark partnership between TripAdvisor and Booking.com may only just be drying, but its effect is already being felt. The user review/metasearch site agreed in October 2015 to have... Read More

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Seven ways business travel could benefit from tech this year

By Viewpoints | January 12, 2016

Travel managers, buyers and business travellers use tech to make their (working) life more productive and more simple, but the full potential has yet to be realised. NB: This is a viewpoint by Roge... Read More

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If size matters, Didi crushes Uber

By Martin Cowen | January 12, 2016

The scale of Uber's challenge in China has been put into context by some official numbers released by its main rival and market leader Didi Kuaidi. Didi rarely shares any authenticated business met... Read More

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Dayuse opens door to Euro 15 million funding

By Linda Fox | January 12, 2016

Dayuse, a daytime hotel booking platform, has received Euro 15 million in Series A funding. Venture capital firms Idinvest and Partech Ventures participated in the round for the Paris-based startup... Read More

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