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TripAdvisor gives high profile spot to paying hotels in new ad test
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TripAdvisor gives high profile spot to paying hotels in new ad test
By Kevin May | July 23, 2015
TripAdvisor is piloting a series of new prominent advertising spots on some of its most important pages on the site. Visitors landing on one of TripAdvisor's city pages, for example, will now see a... Read More
SITA buys German airport tech firm Delair
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SITA buys German airport tech firm Delair
By Martin Cowen | July 23, 2015
SITA is continuing to build out its airport IT product range, buying German airport process management specialists Delair Air Traffic Systems for an undisclosed sum. Delair operates what is known a... Read More
Startup pitch: HundredRooms, Spain's rental metasearch, deploys its Euro 1M
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Startup pitch: HundredRooms, Spain's rental metasearch, deploys its Euro 1M
By Sean O'Neil | July 22, 2015
Founded in early 2014, HundredRooms is Spain's first homegrown holiday rental metasearch service. A month ago, it announced that it had received an investment round of Euro 1 million, led by Inver... Read More
Tourism Australia signs up with Expedia Media Solutions
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Tourism Australia signs up with Expedia Media Solutions
By Sean O'Neil | July 22, 2015
Tourism Australia has signed a three-year marketing partnership with Expedia Media Solutions to help boost inbound visitors -- primarily Americans and Britons in the first year. The direct marketin... Read More
MakeMyTrip buys 28% stake in HolidayIQ for $15 million
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MakeMyTrip buys 28% stake in HolidayIQ for $15 million
By Martin Cowen | July 22, 2015
India's leading travel reviews site, HolidayIQ, has sold a 28% stake to MakeMyTrip for $15 million, with "mobile" very much the focus of the resulting strategic partnership. The investment is being... Read More
Taylor Swift: Can online travel learn from her haggling skill?
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Taylor Swift: Can online travel learn from her haggling skill?
By Viewpoints | July 22, 2015
Everyone and anyone who supports fairness in internet commerce should take note of a new hero – or more appropriately a new heroine – and her name is Taylor Swift. NB This is a guest article by Dan... Read More
ClickTripz buys TheSuitest to add data science to hotel technology
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ClickTripz buys TheSuitest to add data science to hotel technology
By Kevin May | July 22, 2015
TheSuitest, a hotel search engine that crunches data to give additional information on room options, was acquired by ClickTripz this week. The company was created in 2013 by "hedge-fun coders and r... Read More
Travel firms need to watch WeChat
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Travel firms need to watch WeChat
By Viewpoints | July 21, 2015
WeChat is introducing a wealth of new features and some of them could be of interest to travel marketers. NB This is a guest article by Ritesh Gupta, a reporter from China Travel News. WeChat's... Read More
South Korean travel meta Allstay gets $430K
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South Korean travel meta Allstay gets $430K
By Martin Cowen | July 21, 2015
The backers of two big Asian Pacific online travel booking websites have pumped 500m KRW ($430,000) into Allstay.kr, a mobile-focused accommodation metasearch site based in South Korea. Allstay wil... Read More
Sharing economy - much to do, plenty to offer [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Sharing economy - much to do, plenty to offer [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | July 21, 2015
Shock, horror! Almost six out of ten Millennial Americans are aware of the sharing economy but less than half of consumers as a whole have knowledge of such services. Nothing particularly surprisin... Read More
Amadeus buys property management system Itesso
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Amadeus buys property management system Itesso
By Kevin May | July 21, 2015
Dutch property management system provider Itesso is the latest company to be acquired by Amadeus to boost its hospitality IT portfolio. The deal announced today for the 20-year-old-company has no t... Read More
How hotels can direct their efforts towards direct bookings
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How hotels can direct their efforts towards direct bookings
By Viewpoints | July 21, 2015
Hoteliers are always seeking ways to increase sales, but it seems as if every new marketing tactic comes with a steep commission structure that eats into the revenues. NB This is a guest article by... Read More
Recording an Airbnb property before guest is accused of trashing it - there's an app for that
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Recording an Airbnb property before guest is accused of trashing it - there's an app for that
By Kevin May | July 21, 2015
Modern-day services still come with age-old problems - so Record360 is trying to help users of services such as Airbnb who have disputes with owners. The idea behind the product is pretty simple: i... Read More
Wearable technology - past, present and what's to come
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Wearable technology - past, present and what's to come
By PhocusWire | July 21, 2015
What is wearable technology, where does it come from, who invented the wearable technology, what is the future of wearable technology?... Read More
Intense testing and learning is now central to Expedia online strategy
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Intense testing and learning is now central to Expedia online strategy
By Linda Fox | July 21, 2015
Expedia is gathering increasing data on customers and their behaviour using a "test and learn" process on its sites. The thinking behind "test and learn" is that anyone in the company, across all d... Read More
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