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Gap narrows between Ryanair and EasyJet - Top UK travel sites, August 6 2011
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Gap narrows between Ryanair and EasyJet - Top UK travel sites, August 6 2011
By PhocusWire | August 9, 2011
Ryanair is just 0.5% behind arch rival EasyJet in the top ten airline websites in the UK this week.... Read More
Email marketing -- Orbitz and Delta provide lots of assurance
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Email marketing -- Orbitz and Delta provide lots of assurance
By Dennis Schaal | August 8, 2011
If you search for an airline ticket on Orbitz.com these days and don't book anything, rest assured that an email may soon be in the mail.... Read More
Travel analyst Harteveldt leaving Forrester to form Atmosphere Research
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Travel analyst Harteveldt leaving Forrester to form Atmosphere Research
By Dennis Schaal | August 8, 2011
Travel analyst Henry Harteveldt says he's leaving Forrester Research Sept. 1 to form an "industry-focused research company" with travel and airlines, along with healthcare, as the initial focus.... Read More
Is HotPads Lasso Search an alternative to Google Hotel Finder shape drawing?
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Is HotPads Lasso Search an alternative to Google Hotel Finder shape drawing?
By Dennis Schaal | August 8, 2011
The whiteboards in hotel metasearch offices on several continents must be filled these days with freshly penned scrawlings and ideas in response to Google's experimental launch of hotel search via the manipulation of shapes on a map.... Read More
Forget London riots, VisitBritain has dream team of bloggers to showcase best of UK
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Forget London riots, VisitBritain has dream team of bloggers to showcase best of UK
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
Authorities in London are having a bit of a problem over the past few days with riots and looting in some of the capital's less-touristy areas.... Read More
TLabs Reprise - Globetrooper 12 months on
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TLabs Reprise - Globetrooper 12 months on
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
Globetrooper is an Australia-based social trip planning service, which first featured on Tnooz in April 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months?... Read More
Booking.com closing in on TripAdvisor - Top Canada travel sites, August 6 2011
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Booking.com closing in on TripAdvisor - Top Canada travel sites, August 6 2011
By PhocusWire | August 8, 2011
TripAdvisor is now just half a percentage point ahead of Booking.com in the top ten leading Canadian websites in the destinations and accommodation category.... Read More
First look: GDS Code of Conduct questionnaire sent to stakeholders
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First look: GDS Code of Conduct questionnaire sent to stakeholders
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
The European Commission has officially started the consultation for review of the GDS Code of Conduct, with a 55-question survey sent to the industry today.... Read More
Tracks.io pictures a new way to organise travel images on a mobile
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Tracks.io pictures a new way to organise travel images on a mobile
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Tracks, an iPhone application for collecting, mapping, grouping and sharing travel images.... Read More
Emirates joins second tier pack - Top India travel websites, July 30 2011
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Emirates joins second tier pack - Top India travel websites, July 30 2011
By PhocusWire | August 8, 2011
Emirates has doubled its market share in India to move just below national carrier Air India in the top ten most popular airline websites.... Read More
Hotel pricing - North America - August to October 2011
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Hotel pricing - North America - August to October 2011
By PhocusWire | August 8, 2011
Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in North America, August to October 2011.... Read More
How airlines use Twitter - July 2011 [infographic]
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How airlines use Twitter - July 2011 [infographic]
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
New entry into the list of airlines receiving the most mentions on Twitter, with JetBlue replacing rival Southwest and AirAsia moving up to second behind Delta.... Read More
Travel site cuts Google spend after success of Facebook as a new channel
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Travel site cuts Google spend after success of Facebook as a new channel
By Kevin May | August 8, 2011
Twelve months on since the OnHolidayGroup launched the cheekily named Google Bypass project, Google may have won the battle but possibly lost the war.... Read More
Best of Tnooz This Week - Review liabilities, P2P realities, Social influences
By PhocusWire | August 7, 2011
What were the best articles on Tnooz this week?... Read More
Walking the best places around world in one minute [VIDEO]
By Kevin May | August 5, 2011
STA Travel Australia sent three travellers with clearly a smattering of film-making experience to document a six-week jaunt around the world.... Read More
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