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The reviews are in, and the world's top-rated luxury hotel is...

By Nick Vivion | March 19, 2014

ReviewPro has done the gruntwork, parsing 839,593 online guest reviews of 1,692 properties published during 2013 to determine the top luxury hotels worldwide. This is the first annual report on the S... Read More

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TUI Travel helps customers find dream trip via immersive video

By Linda Fox | March 19, 2014

TUI Travel is enabling customers to put together their dream holiday using an interactive video. The Holiday Open Day online initiative allows travellers to make decisions about the type of holiday... Read More

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Brazil upgrades air traffic technology ahead of the World Cup/Olympic double header

By Nick Vivion | March 19, 2014

Brazil might just be the host of the decade, welcoming both the World Cup and the Summer Olympics in a short multi-year span. This could be seen as a coming out of sorts, eclipsing Russia's recent Oly... Read More

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Flight MH 370 - Malaysia Airlines and its social media strategy

By Kevin May | March 19, 2014

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 has inevitably captured the attention of the world - not least because so little of its fate is known. As dozens of countries continue the pains... Read More

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Startup pitch: Tinker thinks it knows what it takes to make the perfect airport taxi booking

By Sean O'Neil | March 19, 2014

Tinker is a Dutch startup that aims to solve the "last mile" problem for booking ground transportation between between an airport and a destination. In a unique touch, when a customer is arriving a... Read More

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Is it the bells and whistles why travellers pick an airline? Think again...

By Karthick Prabu | March 19, 2014

Irrespective of stellar in-flight entertainment systems and on-time performance, Australians pick price (unsurprising) as the most important factor when booking flights. Australia-based OTA Wotif s... Read More

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TravelClick talks about its future plans

By Sean O'Neil | March 18, 2014

After seven years of ownership by venture capital firm Genstar and Bain Capital, TravelClick, a hospitality tech provider based in New York, has been acquired by Thoma Bravo, a US private equity group... Read More

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Loyalty showdown: Airline miles satisfaction survey reveals sentiment [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Nick Vivion | March 18, 2014

Airline miles satisfaction is the topic of a recent survey by mileage credit card comparison tool MilesCard. The survey results show a surprising majority satisfied with the overall loyalty program... Read More

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TravelClick sold for $930 million, giving exit to Genstar [UPDATED]

By Sean O'Neil | March 18, 2014

TravelClick, a provider of revenue-enhancing technology to the hotel industry, has been sold for $930 million. Acquiring TravelClick is Thoma Bravo, a US private equity group, which said it expecte... Read More

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Founder's story: how to capture an emerging market with an online travel agency

By Viewpoints | March 18, 2014

In 2012 entrepreneur Mark Essien launched a hotel booking platform in Nigeria called Hotels.ng. He had only about $70,000 in capital. Now Hotels.ng says it has 60,000 monthly visitors. It claims to... Read More

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Can you beat Google in vertical search?

By PhocusWire | March 18, 2014

MARKETING: SEO and SEM were never particularly easy disciplines to master - and that was before Google decided to wade into a number of sectors with its own tools (not least, travel). All is not los... Read More

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Best and worst performers for online travel bookings abandoned [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Karthick Prabu | March 18, 2014

The rate at which visitors to travel websites decide not to complete their bookings is extraordinarily high at almost 75% - and worse than the wider retail industry at 71%. SaleCycle, a remarketing... Read More

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Middle East travel industry - mobile and last-minute bookings kick in

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | March 18, 2014

In my recent visits to Dubai, I have sensed growing excitement around the nascent online space. The opportunities are huge and diverse in the Middle East travel sector. More investors are eying the... Read More

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Amex nets $900M from creation of joint venture, promises a digital future

By Kevin May | March 17, 2014

Amex will get $900 million as part of a major deal to share ownership of its Business Travel Division with the Certares investment group. The Certares-led collection of companies includes Qatar Hol... Read More

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Should every company wake up to the sharing economy?

By PhocusWire | March 17, 2014

SOCIAL: A string of new businesses have emerged in recent years which have re-shaped parts of how the travel industry operate. But the idea that every company should be thinking about how they can t... Read More

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