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Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012
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Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012
By Kevin May | November 14, 2011
Two-thirds of travel companies will spend more of their precious marketing budgets on social media next year, while over half will also target mobile channels.... Read More
Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012
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Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012
By Kevin May | November 14, 2011
Two-thirds of travel companies will spend more of their precious marketing budgets on social media next year, while over half will also target mobile channels.... Read More
Thomson slips below Lastminute - Top UK travel sites, November 12 2011
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Thomson slips below Lastminute - Top UK travel sites, November 12 2011
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2011
Lastminute.com has leaped over Thomson to become the second most popular travel agency website in the UK.... Read More
Revenue managers go mobile with HotelTonight extranet
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Revenue managers go mobile with HotelTonight extranet
By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011
HotelTonight, which has streamlined mobile hotel booking for consumers, has launched a mobile extranet for revenue managers.... Read More
Ultimate time-lapse travel video - a trip around the world, viewed from space
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Ultimate time-lapse travel video - a trip around the world, viewed from space
By Kevin May | November 14, 2011
Sometimes it is worth just sitting back, taking it all in, and simply marvelling at what technology has done to the world of video.... Read More
Marriott launches Discover ExecuStay blog with public relations exec as guest blogger
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Marriott launches Discover ExecuStay blog with public relations exec as guest blogger
By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011
Marriott ExecuStay launched a Discover ExecuStay blog and the first "guest blogger" is a public relations executive who works for the Marriott mothership.... Read More
Rearden Commerce has a Storyboard and hopes streamlined search will be refreshing
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Rearden Commerce has a Storyboard and hopes streamlined search will be refreshing
By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011
Rearden Commerce is conducting a private beta for a travel-planning collaboration tool which it hopes will streamline travel search and make it more personalized.... Read More
Southwest, Delta, American secure half of audience - Top US travel sites, November 12 2011
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Southwest, Delta, American secure half of audience - Top US travel sites, November 12 2011
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2011
The top three airline websites in the US - Southwest, Delta and American Airlines - have are now capturing almost half of all traffic to carrier websites.... Read More
Italians lead charge as most likely to book travel on mobile
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Italians lead charge as most likely to book travel on mobile
By Kevin May | November 14, 2011
Four out of ten Europeans would consider booking a holiday or flight via mobile device, although Brits are the least mobile-friendly with less than a third keen on the idea.... Read More
MoneySupermarket tips flash deals potential for TravelSupermarket following acquisition
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MoneySupermarket tips flash deals potential for TravelSupermarket following acquisition
By Linda Fox | November 14, 2011
MoneySupermarket is considering how to extend flash sales across to TravelSupermarket following its acquisition of Local Daily Deals several weeks ago.... Read More
Social media and SEO created a mutant in travel - Introducing Fake Review Optimization
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Social media and SEO created a mutant in travel - Introducing Fake Review Optimization
By Viewpoints | November 14, 2011
Welcome to the world of user generated content – circa 2011.... Read More
Survey: Business travelers go mobile and do travel planning at destination
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Survey: Business travelers go mobile and do travel planning at destination
By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011
Business travelers do much of their travel planning through their corporate travel programs, but once they are on the road they do a lot ofresearch on their mobile devices in-destination.... Read More
Google provides personalisation via context of search, travel way behind
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Google provides personalisation via context of search, travel way behind
By Linda Fox | November 14, 2011
Tales of frequent fliers getting the same letter three times from their favourite carrier have done the rounds but now airlines seem to be taking personalisation more seriously... Read More
YourTour partners with Amadeus, plots further growth following funding
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YourTour partners with Amadeus, plots further growth following funding
By Linda Fox | November 14, 2011
Itinerary planning service YourTour has formed a partnership to integrate its service within Amadeus.net.... Read More
Distribute Travel brings new distribution service to suppliers, intermediaries and media
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Distribute Travel brings new distribution service to suppliers, intermediaries and media
By Kevin May | November 13, 2011
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based Distribute Travel, a product distribution platform for travel businesses and white label system for third party websites.... Read More
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