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Spawning a monster - first travel blog was born 20 years ago

By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014

SOCIAL: It's rather incredible now that something as innocent as posting a few travel notes onto the information superhighway back in the early-1990s could have triggered a sub-sector of the industr... Read More

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Hospitality standards and P2P: Airbnb and Housetrip talk building a global network of hoteliers

By Nick Vivion | January 6, 2014

One of the most poignant criticisms of P2P accommodation websites is that the network's decentralized nature leads to slack standards as far as hospitality. The argument is that such a large collectio... Read More

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Airports 2.0: Visioning an airport experience that works for travelers, vendors and airport owners

By Viewpoints | January 6, 2014

Love to travel but hate airports? If yes, then you’re like most people. The word “airport” just conjures up so many negative emotions – lines, delays, unhealthy food, and overpriced merchandise. Bu... Read More

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Don't be tempted to use Facebook to evaluate future employees

By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014

SOCIAL: Aah, Facebook - where all the craziness of our private lives is documented for friends to see. When an individual's privacy settings are low, recruiters have used the omnipresent social netw... Read More

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Facebook bug snags the social marketing of travel brands like Royal Caribbean

By Sean O'Neil | January 6, 2014

Talk about a "social" blunder. Last week, travel marketers noticed a bug in Facebook's software that briefly snared the social marketing campaigns of major brands like Royal Caribbean International.... Read More

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Behold the augmented reality contact lenses

By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014

SYSTEMS: One of the issues wearable technology has in its drive to gain adoption within the mass ranks of consumers (rather than just geeks and hipsters) is that a lot of the hardware just looks, so... Read More

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Qunar reports record high for flight bookings via mobile

By Karthick Prabu | January 6, 2014

Qunar, the Chinese metasearch service, has achieved a single-day record of 60,000 flight bookings via its mobile channel. The all time high number was experienced during the New Year holiday in Chi... Read More

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Relevancy is key driver for marketing engagement in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Nick Vivion | January 3, 2014

The beginning of the year is a busy one for marketers, who must quickly finalize marketing plans for 2014 - and then begin deploying available assets to begin following through on the plan. Accordi... Read More

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Google's growth in social logins show importance of consumer login choice on websites

By Nick Vivion | January 3, 2014

Social logins manager Janrain has been tracking the popularity of brand-specific logins via their platform for a couple of years, and have released their data from the last quarter of 2013. The tre... Read More

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One year with Google Glass

By PhocusWire | January 3, 2014

SYSTEMS: Wearable technology has been mostly the preserve of tech commentators, skunkwork or startup geeks trying it to see if there's a definitive use case, or achingly trendy hipsters. There are a... Read More

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Best Western hotels have spent millions to get on Google Streetview

By Kevin May | January 3, 2014

Best Western announced in December last year that a "partnership" with Google would see every single hotel in its portfolio in North America available on Streetview. Some 2,200 hotels will be photo... Read More

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Startup pitch: iTraveller wants to give a little boost to travel agents

By Karthick Prabu | January 3, 2014

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Welcome to the world of rubbish social media marketing advice

By PhocusWire | January 3, 2014

SOCIAL: It often appears that there are more social media "gurus" kicking about than there are actual brands, many armed with, err, years of experience in the field. Thankfully, marketers with years... Read More

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[UPDATED] China car rental turns hot as Didi Dache raises $100 million

By Karthick Prabu | January 2, 2014

China's leading online taxi hailing service provider Didi Dache has secured $100 million in Series C funding from Tencent and Citic. The Beijing-based company's investment is led by Citic with $60... Read More

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Startup pitch: TripScope brings dynamic itineraries to the travel agent/traveler workflow

By Nick Vivion | January 2, 2014

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