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What you audit know about Florida's hotel tax final ruling [CORRECTED]

By Sean O'Neil | June 11, 2015

Florida's highest court has ruled that online travel agencies (OTAs) do not need to pay special taxes that 17 counties attempted to charge on a portion of their hotel transactions. The "bed tax" c... Read More

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How Facebook's retail beacons and buy button work to create a new ecommerce reality

By Nick Vivion | June 11, 2015

Travel is tied to brick-and-mortar — you have to move physically through the world to experience the industry. This means that there are physical items at all points throughout the journey. Of cour... Read More

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Tourism 101: online marketing to China

By Viewpoints | June 11, 2015

Chinese tourists represent quite a juicy market - 100 million tourists in 2014, rising to a whopping 200 million by 2020. This is a guest article by Thomas Meriaux, a digital marketing specialist a... Read More

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Amadeus slots a major piece into its merchandising puzzle

By Linda Fox | June 11, 2015

Amadeus slotted a key element of its merchandising jigsaw into place last week with the launch of a Customer Experience Management system. The technology is central to the distribution giant's visi... Read More

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Three luxury hotels are victims of spectacular hackings, says security firm

By Sean O'Neil | June 10, 2015

Three luxury hotels's systems that connect to their computers, phones, and elevators were hacked by a sophisticated virus, according to Kaspersky Lab, a company that sells digital security tools. A... Read More

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Despite promise, travel bookings on mobile devices still lagging

By Nick Vivion | June 10, 2015

The push towards mobile bookings has been a long slog, with a recent push of strength showing that 1 in 4 consumers had completed bookings via mobile. Yet this number might be a bit generous, espec... Read More

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Audi follows BMW and Daimler with on-demand car sharing service

By Nick Vivion | June 10, 2015

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em — or at least follow the winds of change and control the disruption of your own business model. Audi has joined the sharing economy ranks with Audi On Demand, an app... Read More

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Startup Pitch: CleverLayover finds connecting flights to save money

By Martin Cowen | June 10, 2015

CleverLayover is a startup created by six students at Harvard Business School. It launched to the public in April and has picked up a lot of interest in the mainstream media travel pages. The propo... Read More

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With remarkable timing, Lufthansa talks up its merchandising strategy

By Linda Fox | June 10, 2015

Last week, as Lufthansa announced a change in commercial direction from its German HQ, half the way around the globe an exec talked of the airline's first steps in ancillary revenue. It's a bit of... Read More

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Online travel in Turkey is now primed for the big time

By Viewpoints | June 10, 2015

Turkey is emerging as an important inbound and outbound tourism market at the same time as its ecommerce sector starts to mature. NB: This is a guest article by Joseph Andrik, business development... Read More

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Cleartrip shows the value of mobile web

By Martin Cowen | June 9, 2015

Indian OTA Cleartrip has outlined a sharp growth in mobile bookings and expects its relaunched mobile web site to drive even bigger numbers in the future. In the first three months of last year, m... Read More

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Startup pitch: Proxce gives hotels mobile check-in and keyless entry

By Sean O'Neil | June 9, 2015

Proxce, a Silicon Valley startup, sells technology that enables hotels to automatically check in their guests by installing sensors that communicate with the guests' smartphones once they arrive at a... Read More

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Connected and seamless continue to be vital pieces of the traveler experience

By Nick Vivion | June 9, 2015

The traveler experience continues to be in focus, as more brands pursue a "connected" and "seamless" approach to travel. This is all according to an extensive new report called the Connected Life b... Read More

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Shazam could do for travel what it did to music search

By Kevin May | June 9, 2015

Remember the days when we would all wonder if QR Codes could ever REALLY become something that people would actually use. Circa 2009-2010, countless travel brands (and many other companies from var... Read More

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Haiwan secures large Series B to push activities to Chinese outbound travellers

By Martin Cowen | June 9, 2015

Chinese outbound tours and activities specialist Haiwan has picked up "tens of millions of dollars" in Series B funding. The round was led by Tiantu Capital with Sequoia Capital, Source Code Capita... Read More

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