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Why 2016 needs to be the year of the digital guest standard

By Viewpoints | January 5, 2016

The hotel market is renowned for its inertia and late adoption to technological innovations. Yet, it was one of the first industries to move online around 1995/1996 (when Travelocity and Expedia fi... Read More

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Shazam can be a neat marketing tool, but travel brands aren't listening

By Kevin May | January 5, 2016

Many travel companies claim to be "joined-up" with their marketing efforts these days - but still they appear to forget there is more to it than showing a fancy ad. A case in point is the latest ru... Read More

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JFK tracks mobile phones to ease passenger queues

By Kevin May | January 5, 2016

New York City's JFK Airport is trying a new and different method of cutting down on wait times - crowd-sourcing passenger mobile signals. The city and region's busiest commercial airport is histori... Read More

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Uber Travel may challenge Expedia, TripCase, everyone -- if it's serious

By Sean O'Neil | January 4, 2016

Uber, the transportation network company, was granted a patent before Christmas for a digital interface that looks a lot like travel metasearch. The tool would provide travel booking, just as are p... Read More

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Lyft drives away with $500M from General Motors, plus $500M from others

By Kevin May | January 4, 2016

Ride-sharing business Lyft has landed a $1 billion investment round - half of which is coming from car manufacturer General Motors. The Series F round will apparently the company in a $5 billion+ v... Read More

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Qunar rings the C-suite changes

By Martin Cowen | January 4, 2016

Qunar has promoted its head of mobile to chief executive officer with immediate effect as part of a New Year management shake-up which sees current CEO and co-founder Chenchao “CC” Zhuang become a spe... Read More

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Virtual card numbers have only scratched the surface so far

By Viewpoints | January 4, 2016

Virtual Card Numbers (VCNs) are a commercial payments solution revolutionising corporate payments, most notably in business travel. NB This is a viewpoint by Simon Barker CEO for Conferma. With... Read More

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Travel content triggers Facebook envy (and other not-so happy outcomes)

By Kevin May | January 3, 2016

Envy is the "missing link" around the negative aspects of social media - and travel-related content is often at the centre of it, according to a study. An investigation by the Sauder School of Busi... Read More

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One in five hotel bookings on the web are cancelled

By Kevin May | December 31, 2015

Some 19% of hotels that are booked online are cancelled before the guest arrives at the hotel, according to data provided by Dohop. The travel search business, which runs its hotel channel as an af... Read More

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China's hotels feel the pressure in a consolidated OTA market

By Viewpoints | December 30, 2015

Hotels in China are thinking long and hard about their future distribution strategies in light of the M&A activity and business co-operations between the leading OTAs. Their concerns resonate o... Read More

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Aviation, distribution, and tech: Where 2015 took us

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | December 30, 2015

Dear Readers, Somehow you ended up here, reading my annual review. It must be a slow news day. In 2015, I spent a lot of time in the airline world, where I note we are seeing a much delayed and... Read More

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The most popular Tnooz articles of 2015

By PhocusWire | December 30, 2015

This was a fortunate year for us at Tnooz – with steadily surging traffic and more events than ever before. As we wish our readers a Happy New Year, we also thank you for making it happen, whether... Read More

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Pivotal moments 2015 - When AccorHotels launched its marketplace

By Linda Fox | December 30, 2015

As the uneasy relationship between hotels and online travel agencies rumbles on, one hotel group made an interesting move in June to tip the balance back in its favour. AccorHotels announced the la... Read More

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Pivotal moments 2015 – When TripAdvisor's instant booking won Marriott

By Sean O'Neil | December 30, 2015

My pick for the year’s most pivotal moment was this summer, when TripAdvisor successfully signed Marriott to participate in its instant booking functionality. The move placed a huge pressure on other... Read More

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Pivotal moments 2015 - when MakeMyTrip blocked OYO

By Martin Cowen | December 29, 2015

One of the biggest success stories to come out of India in the past twelve months has been the online branded accommodation aggregators, led by OYO Rooms and ZO Rooms. Although it might be more acc... Read More

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