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Kayak decides to continue working with ITA Software after all

By Kevin May | February 6, 2014

Kayak says it will stay best buddies (of sorts) with ITA Software after all - despite being at the forefront of the lobbying group opposed to Google buying ITA in 2010. The travel search company's... Read More

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KLM backs cabin crew technology startup MI Airline with Euro 1.2 million round

By Kevin May | February 6, 2014

MI Airline, a device-based system to help air cabin crew organise and assist passengers during a flight, has secured Euro 1.2 million in a second round of investment. The capital comes by way of th... Read More

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Flightfox runs from the crowd and heads straight for the individual expert

By Nick Vivion | February 5, 2014

In a dramatic shift, Flightfox has changed their business model from that of competitively crowdsourcing to connecting directly with one individual expert. The new business model is that each trave... Read More

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Beyond the basics - Making Big Data a bigger deal for hotels

By Morris Sim | February 5, 2014

Big Data has paved the way for understanding consumer context and can help you better monetize and increase yield or so all the headlines will have you believe. But, the view from the sales and mar... Read More

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TripAdvisor Flights gets a new look [UPDATED with corrections]

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

TripAdvisor, which has mastered the dark social arts when it comes to hotels, has relaunched its flight metasearch tool serving 31 countries. It's spreading its user-generated model into airfare sales... Read More

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ANA rolls out new content for its robust Is Japan Cool digital marketing campaign

By Nick Vivion | February 5, 2014

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You have to pivot to win it: Original social travel site WAYN on survival

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

The travel social network Where Are You Now, better known by its acronym WAYN, has stayed the course since 2002, despite criticism. It now has traffic that other social travel sites would kill for.... Read More

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The most searched-for travel brands on Yahoo in 2013 reveals marketing all-stars

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

Tnooz asked Yahoo to generate a list of the most searched-for travel site terms via Yahoo Search in 2013 for the US and the UK. The list of typical travel-related terms in organic search implicitly... Read More

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Mobile Payments Index show marked increase in mobile payments

By Nick Vivion | February 4, 2014

Payment solutions provider Adyen has released their third Mobile Payments Index, and the results are clear: mobile payments are poised to pounce. The data covers September to December of 2013, and... Read More

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White Lodging releases more about credit card data breach, including affected hotels

By Nick Vivion | February 4, 2014

There's an update to the far-reaching credit card data breach story that Tnooz covered yesterday. The operator, White Lodging, confirms that they did in fact have a significant security breach for man... Read More

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Entering the next phase of mobile commerce in the travel industry

By Glenn Gruber | February 4, 2014

Mobile commerce continues to grow at a fast pace. According to eMarketer, mobile commerce or mCommerce constitutes $41.68 billion of the total $262.3 billion of ecommerce sales for 2013 or an incre... Read More

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Nara aims to Pandorify travel with its Big Data discovery engine

By Sean O'Neil | February 4, 2014

If music recommendation service Pandora and user-generated rating site TripAdvisor had a love child, it might be Nara Logics, a US startup. Nara's premise is that if you tell it a hotel you have e... Read More

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MakeMyTrip reports 40% revenue from non-air, mobile channel also grows

By Karthick Prabu | February 3, 2014

India-based OTA MakeMyTrip has reported a revenue less service costs of $28.5 million for the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 42.1% year-on-year. The NASDAQ-listed company said the quarter wa... Read More

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Startup pitch: RoomLion aims for global marketplace for serviced apartments

By Karthick Prabu | February 3, 2014

Whilst the market is witnessing a number of peer-to-peer accommodation sharing services, India-based startup RoomLion focuses on one particular type. It is aiming to build a web marketplace for onl... Read More

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Amadeus identifies corporate shark as key business travel segment

By Linda Fox | February 3, 2014

Ahead of the Business Travel Show in London this week, Amadeus has released research on traveller priorities for 2014. The Business Travel Gets Personal study throws up efficiency as the number one... Read More

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