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GDS data shows impact of Typhoon Haiyan on leisure bookings

By Karthick Prabu | December 16, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, was the biggest cyclone to hit the Philippines to date, claiming over 6,000 lives and an estimated $5.8 billion in damage. Travel brands such as Ai... Read More

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What the business travel community can expect to pay in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | December 15, 2013

American Express Global Business Travel has been doing some number crunching to find out what travellers might expect to pay for the various components of the journey in 2014. The company says it's l... Read More

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Abu Dhabi to include hotel online reviews to classify hotel star ratings

By Karthick Prabu | December 15, 2013

In what is claimed to be an industry first, Abu Dhabi has announced a plan to include online reviews as an additional parameter to classify hotels by star rating. Olery, a guest experience manageme... Read More

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Back to the drawing board to design a better Windows 8

By PhocusWire | December 14, 2013

SYSTEMS: Desktop operating systems are at a bit of a crossroads as creators try to marry new processes with slick design, with one eye on how touch interfaces will eventually become the norm. Micros... Read More

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Lessons in social media via great writers from history

By PhocusWire | December 13, 2013

SOCIAL: Using social media such as Twitter and Facebook is, let's face it, a relatively modern discipline and users have been conditioned to behave in certain ways. But, interestingly, look back at... Read More

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Starwood launches Guest Gallery system using Instagram photos

By Karthick Prabu | December 13, 2013

With the recent integration of Starwood Hotel properties with Instagram, guest pictures will now be displayed under "Guest Gallery" section in all property sites. The hotel group claims that its gu... Read More

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No let up in Russian online travel as more acquisitions and funding announced

By Linda Fox | December 13, 2013

The online travel space in Russia is seeing a week of deals with Excursiopedia announcing its acquisition of event travel business Travelatus as well as funding news for another local online player.... Read More

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Superfly lands B2B deal with an OTA for its travel share-shifting service that's mobile-first

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2013

Superfly, the meta search company, has fronted as a consumer play, but its first deal with an online travel agency (OTA) suggests its most solid revenue stream will be from business-to-business (B2B)... Read More

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Google susses out your travel intent with update to Maps for mobile

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2013

Another day, another app update. But this particular Google app update for Apple and Android devices clarifies its growing effort to guess your travel intent and deliver relevant results. New funct... Read More

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Eye-tracking shows where users are focused in search: on Google products

By Kevin May | December 13, 2013

Interesting data has been released as part of an ongoing campaign to persuade regulators that they should force Google to change the way it displays results and services. A study commissioned by IC... Read More

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Using voice messages as a brand on Facebook

By PhocusWire | December 13, 2013

SOCIAL: Fan pages have tended to dominate much of the thinking around using Facebook to engage and interact with customers of a brand. But slowly the omnipresent social network is introducing other... Read More

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Startup pitch: Top10.com wants to provide the definitive hotel shortlist

By Linda Fox | December 12, 2013

Frustrated by the countless unstructured lists of hotels online, Top10.com's founders decided they could do it faster and in a more personalised way than what already exists. The idea is to take us... Read More

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Distressed hotel on your hands? Here's how to turn it around in six months

By Patrick Landman | December 12, 2013

It might surprise many that generally the problem around distressed hotels is due to a lack of insight as to how the travel industry really works. There is also a shortage of understanding in the b... Read More

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Watch out, postcards: Instagram Direct takes a shot at travel photo sharing

By Sean O'Neil | December 12, 2013

Instagram, the photo-sharing app that Facebook acquired last year, wants to get us all sharing postcards again, only it plans to do it in a virtual way with a new feature called Direct "Direct" let... Read More

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Three years on from Google Panda, many travel sites struggle with traffic

By Sean O'Neil | December 12, 2013

Panda. Penguin. Hummingbird. The names conjure up images of harmlessly cute animals. But many owners of small and medium-sized travel websites worldwide hate the sound of these animal names because... Read More

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