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Best of Tnooz last week - All about crunching, new directions, challenges, testing and new owners
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Best of Tnooz last week - All about crunching, new directions, challenges, testing and new owners
By PhocusWire | December 16, 2012
What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?... Read More
The social foundation: How social proof increases clickthrough on search
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The social foundation: How social proof increases clickthrough on search
By Nick Vivion | December 14, 2012
Word-of-mouth has always been one of the most powerful - and valuable - forms of marketing, and the age of social media has clearly accelerated the pace and efficacy with which word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) campaigns can spread.... Read More
Get inspired by this month's best travel videos, as picked by Vimeo
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Get inspired by this month's best travel videos, as picked by Vimeo
By Sean O'Neil | December 14, 2012
Chicago, Guangzhou, the USA, Hong Kong, Iceland, and International Banana Museum are all stars in the latest crop of top-rated, critically acclaimed short digital films.... Read More
Data crunching to find the cheapest airline in the world
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Data crunching to find the cheapest airline in the world
By Viewpoints | December 14, 2012
The growth of big data and availability of APIs is providing exciting new opportunities for making sense of travel data, even for a fledgling start-up like Rome2rio... Read More
Lessons for mobile app developers on why Google Maps for iPhone looks so good
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Lessons for mobile app developers on why Google Maps for iPhone looks so good
By Sean O'Neil | December 14, 2012
A round-up of frustration detection, user prompts, and other techniques for getting people to like your travel app.... Read More
Big data - where it's coming from, where it's headed [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Big data - where it's coming from, where it's headed [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Linda Fox | December 13, 2012
We've had the articles on the value of big data for the travel industry and some questioning methods already being used for personalisation... Read More
Taking a travel team on a team-building month in paradise - crazy or clever?
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Taking a travel team on a team-building month in paradise - crazy or clever?
By Viewpoints | December 13, 2012
We often work in very decentralized organisations in the travel industry. One unit is located in an outgoing market, another office is located at the incoming destination.... Read More
Google tests Flight Explorer platform to bring inspiration into the search equation
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Google tests Flight Explorer platform to bring inspiration into the search equation
By Kevin May | December 13, 2012
It's been a while since Google did one of its "experiments" around its Flight Search - but this latest one is quite a departure from what has come before it.... Read More
OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study
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OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study
By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012
In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to persuade 2% of users to click through to the sites of travel suppliers, according to new research from PhoCusWright.... Read More
Tight grip: TripAdvisor maintains hold on reviews, doubling offsite views each month
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Tight grip: TripAdvisor maintains hold on reviews, doubling offsite views each month
By Nick Vivion | December 13, 2012
TripAdvisor continues to dominate the travel review game: in a little over a year, the company has effectively doubled the amount of offsite views their content receives on partner channels, going from 150 million monthly views in 2011 to over 300 million today.... Read More
Experience Flight brings sky-high tours and activities back down to earth
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Experience Flight brings sky-high tours and activities back down to earth
By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012
Australia's Experience Flight is a portal for tours-and-activities that are in the sky, from joy rides on private planes, sky diving trips and hot-air balloon rides.... Read More
Airlines! Who needs a new distribution platform, just bundle and add a supplement
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Airlines! Who needs a new distribution platform, just bundle and add a supplement
By Linda Fox | December 13, 2012
Is history repeating itself? An interesting move by Flybe this morning sees the airline going back to a bundled approach except this time with a supplement... Read More
Kick-start your startup: Win an exhibition stand at Travel Technology Europe 2013
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Kick-start your startup: Win an exhibition stand at Travel Technology Europe 2013
By PhocusWire | December 13, 2012
Is your company a travel tech startup searching for traction? Wondering where to find that needle-moving business development partner in travel distribution and technology?... Read More
Wifi not a deal breaker when it comes to recommending a hotel
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Wifi not a deal breaker when it comes to recommending a hotel
By Linda Fox | December 13, 2012
Travellers might want free wifi in hotels, or in some cases just wifi (even paid) would be nice, but it may not be enough to dissuade them from telling friends about a property or abandoning it altogether.... Read More
Top ten tips for hotels to improve their search engine presence
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Top ten tips for hotels to improve their search engine presence
By Viewpoints | December 13, 2012
So even if we're now agreed that hotel search on engines such as Google is not about to disappear any time soon, there is still plenty that hotels can do to improve their performance in the channel.... Read More
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