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Forget flights, Google is quietly adding new features to Hotel Finder as rivals look on (and advertise)
By Viewpoints | November 21, 2012
Think all the love at in the travel division at Google is directed at the Flight Search product? Think again.... Read More
3 Web apps that make Google Street View seem amazing again
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3 Web apps that make Google Street View seem amazing again
By Sean O'Neil | November 21, 2012
From Instant Street View to writing a message across an image, we've found some creative uses of Google Street View, the famous mapping function that gives 360-degree street-level imagery of locations worldwide.... Read More
Beyond the recipes and cats, how airlines and airports can also use Pinterest
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Beyond the recipes and cats, how airlines and airports can also use Pinterest
By Viewpoints | November 21, 2012
Over the past 12 months, Pinterest has gone from being a relatively unknown website to being considered one of the most-engaging social networks around, and not without reason.... Read More
Clip the Trip reaches out to the local crowd for travel guides
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Clip the Trip reaches out to the local crowd for travel guides
By Linda Fox | November 21, 2012
Clip the Trip is a crowd-sourced travel guide, currently covering 200 cities, that wants to help users find those out of the ordinary experiences often only known about by locals... Read More
Social travel by numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Social travel by numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Linda Fox | November 21, 2012
Touristlink has created this infographic drawing together some of the numbers around how social media is influencing travel.... Read More
Up close and personal, Lastminute.com descends on a London hotel to test out tech with guests
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Up close and personal, Lastminute.com descends on a London hotel to test out tech with guests
By Kevin May | November 21, 2012
European online travel agency Lastminute.com is setting up camp in a well known techie hotel this week to test prototypes of new technology with guests.... Read More
After letting locals run the Twitter account, VisitSweden now wants visitors to meet them
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After letting locals run the Twitter account, VisitSweden now wants visitors to meet them
By Kevin May | November 21, 2012
Citizens of Sweden were thrust into the limelight this year when the national tourism authority gave them the chance to share their lives on its official Twitter profile.... Read More
Agoda secures commanding lead over rivals - Top New Zealand travel websites, October 2012
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Agoda secures commanding lead over rivals - Top New Zealand travel websites, October 2012
By PhocusWire | November 20, 2012
Further good news for accommodation provider Agoda as it turns its modest lead over the likes of TripAdvisor into an increasingly dominant position.... Read More
CNNGo.com is folded into the main CNN brand, leaving lessons for travel content creators
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CNNGo.com is folded into the main CNN brand, leaving lessons for travel content creators
By Sean O'Neil | November 20, 2012
Whether you're a journalist, blogger, or content creator for a travel site like a hotel or metasearch company, there are interesting lessons to be learned from the success of CNNGo and its current rebranding effort.... Read More
Make the most of your travel innovation pitch... or just go home
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Make the most of your travel innovation pitch... or just go home
By Valyn Perini | November 20, 2012
As a judge at the Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit last week, I had the honor of having 30 companies present their businesses to me and my fellow judges in eight-minute slots during one day.... Read More
The Scan: Independent hotels struggle online, Rome2Rio has an open-source app, and more news
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The Scan: Independent hotels struggle online, Rome2Rio has an open-source app, and more news
By Sean O'Neil | November 20, 2012
Micros eCommerce, HGK, Rome2Rio, MapBox, Google+, Aviasales, Minube, Voyage Privé, TripFlick, Viator, Minube, GuestLogix, all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 20 November.... Read More
Grand City Hotels rolls out anonymous guest socializing application, MeetMeIn
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Grand City Hotels rolls out anonymous guest socializing application, MeetMeIn
By Sean O'Neil | November 20, 2012
A quite interesting new way of hotel socializing is being implemented in the Grand City Hotels in Germany.... Read More
Can airline merchandising and loyalty co-exist?
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Can airline merchandising and loyalty co-exist?
By Evan Konwiser | November 20, 2012
Suppliers continue to talk incessantly about these two strategies for revenue generation: merchandising and loyalty. Can they co-exist peacefully? Can third parties do either well? In short, not yet.... Read More
Social travel site Gtrot - 18 months, close to $1M in funding, two pivots, now a gift service called Boomerang
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Social travel site Gtrot - 18 months, close to $1M in funding, two pivots, now a gift service called Boomerang
By Kevin May | November 19, 2012
Rather peculiar turn of events in the world of social travel media startups this week as Gtrot pivoted again to become a, err, gift sending service.... Read More
If you do not have a blog, your hotel website is dead
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If you do not have a blog, your hotel website is dead
By Patrick Landman | November 19, 2012
I can’t even begin to remember the number of times I have heard hoteliers talk about the need to get more direct business, preferably through their own hotel websites.... Read More
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