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TravelClick acquires ZDirect, a hotel CRM provider

By Sean O'Neil | October 27, 2015

TravelClick, a hospitality tech provider, says it has acquired ZDirect, maker of a hotel customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Deal terms weren't publicized. But it's likely a nice payda... Read More

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Shangri-La Hotels begins hard push on virtual videos

By Kevin May | October 27, 2015

Hotels, tourism boards and many others have been extolling the virtues for years of getting a sneak peek of a destination or product via virtual reality. We will all remember the beginnings of a cr... Read More

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Etihad on cloud nine with Adobe, Rocketrip browses Chrome, and more...

By PhocusWire | October 27, 2015

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for October 2015. Tuesday 27 October 2015: Etihad and Adobe unite for cloud IT services The... Read More

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How online travel is evolving in a mobile-first country

By Kevin May | October 27, 2015

There are a growing number of countries that be considered genuine recipients of the title "mobile-first". Such countries are not those that have a vociferous tech media that would have people thin... Read More

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Negotiating the APAC payments maze: Marriott, Alipay, and more

By Viewpoints | October 27, 2015

The online travel sector in China, and across Asia in general, is characterised by a broad spectrum of payment options, with digital wallets featuring prominently in the list of alternative form of pa... Read More

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VR and beacons tipped for mainstream adoption in 2016

By Martin Cowen | October 27, 2015

Market research group Mintel has issued its European Consumer Trends 2016 report, identifying beacons and virtual reality as two technologies which will impact travel and leisure businesses. Beacon... Read More

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Mobile vs desktop and how travellers are booking rental cars

By Kevin May | October 27, 2015

Some interesting data shared recently by European rental car comparison site HappyCar that illustrates the gradual shift to mobile bookings. First of all the company looked at the increase in the p... Read More

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HomeAway rebrands Travelmob, the Asian Airbnb, in its own name

By Sean O'Neil | October 26, 2015

HomeAway, the private home rental platform, officially publicized today that it has bought the remaining 37% share of Travelmob, the Singapore-based rental and listings company, having previously acqu... Read More

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TripAdvisor says learning as it goes along with instant booking

By Kevin May | October 26, 2015

TripAdvisor's foray into Instant Booking for its hotel metasearch had been motoring along reasonably well until just a few weeks ago. And then it signed an agreement to have the Priceline Group bra... Read More

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Ctrip and Qunar agree share swap and co-operation

By Martin Cowen | October 26, 2015

Chinese OTAs Ctrip and Qunar have confirmed a share exchange agreement and business co-operation, a few months or so after a very public spat over a confused takeover bid. Today's announcement from... Read More

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Free APIs that travel startups should consider when building any search product

By Sean O'Neil | October 26, 2015

Many startups have joined the list of hundreds of companies that use data feeds from Skyscanner, the UK-based metasearch giant. Skyscanner, which says it has more than 50 million unique monthly vi... Read More

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HotelQuickly slows down as well, now offers seven-day bookings

By Kevin May | October 26, 2015

Asia-based HotelQuickly has followed the trend in the same-day hotel booking sector - in other words: abandoned the model. The company, based in Hong Kong, announced today that it would extending i... Read More

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Survey claims buyers shunning Lufthansa since advent of distribution charge

By Linda Fox | October 23, 2015

New figures from the Global Business Travel Association claim more than two-fifths of travel buyers have decreased bookings with Lufthansa since the airline introduced its Euro 16 charge on September... Read More

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What can a hotel guy tell a room full of airline people about transformation?

By Martin Cowen | October 23, 2015

IATA invited AccorHotels's Pierrick le Masne to speak at its WPS 2015 about its own digital transformation and the hotel sector in general, and chances are that most airline people left the room feeli... Read More

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Startup pitch: BnbSitter, a concierge service for Airbnb hosts, leads in Paris

By Sean O'Neil | October 23, 2015

Last year, BnbSitter, a start-up that offers on-demand concierge for hosts of short-term rentals, scored $450,000 of seed funding. It now says it leads the market in France and that it is active in... Read More

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