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Desktop travel bookings tipped for rapid drop, mobile becoming booking mainstay
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Desktop travel bookings tipped for rapid drop, mobile becoming booking mainstay
By Nick Vivion | May 27, 2015
SITA has released the results of its latest Passenger IT Trends survey, showing rising use of mobile apps for check-ins and a continued reliance on self-service fueled by technology. The survey is on... Read More
Can travel agents thrive by partnering with travel media companies — and vice versa?
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Can travel agents thrive by partnering with travel media companies — and vice versa?
By Nick Vivion | May 27, 2015
AFAR Media continues to push the boundary between media company and travel curator with its latest AFAR Journeys push to connect readers to curated, bookable itineraries in Switzerland. The digital... Read More
Why Twitter needs to change (sadly against the wishes of users)
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Why Twitter needs to change (sadly against the wishes of users)
By PhocusWire | May 27, 2015
Twitter has a problem. It wants to appeal to everyone, all at once.... Read More
Lights, camera, action! Market your hotel online like a Hollywood film trailer
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Lights, camera, action! Market your hotel online like a Hollywood film trailer
By Viewpoints | May 27, 2015
The Hollywood film trailer provides an incredibly useful and effective blueprint for hotel marketing. NB: This is a guest article by Richard Holmes, a freelance travel copywriter and hotel speciali... Read More
Batuta raises $2.5m for booking platform
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Batuta raises $2.5m for booking platform
By Linda Fox | May 27, 2015
Palestine-based online travel service Batuta has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from local private equity fund Siraj Palestine Fund l. The startup, founded more than two years ago as a tra... Read More
TripAdvisor ditches DaoDao brand in China, favours owls and journeys instead
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TripAdvisor ditches DaoDao brand in China, favours owls and journeys instead
By Kevin May | May 27, 2015
An "owl" and a "journey" are at the heart of a new brand for TripAdvisor in China, after axing the DaoDao name it has used since 2009. Mao Tu Ying will now be used as the global brand for the user... Read More
Amadeus secures Bangladesh Airways, Travelport gets Air Lituanica and AirAsia, and more...
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Amadeus secures Bangladesh Airways, Travelport gets Air Lituanica and AirAsia, and more...
By PhocusWire | May 27, 2015
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION  in tourism and hospitality for May 2015. Wednesday 27 May 2015: Amadeus secures Biman Bangladesh Airways The cont... Read More
Plenty of room? Heavyweight-backed, China gets a brand-new online travel agency
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Plenty of room? Heavyweight-backed, China gets a brand-new online travel agency
By Martin Cowen | May 26, 2015
The hyper-competitive online travel market in China welcomes - if that's the world - a new entrant with news that HNA Group and NetEase are combining to launch a brand-new business. The announcemen... Read More
Nigerian travel booking site Hotels.ng raises $1.2M, plans expansion
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Nigerian travel booking site Hotels.ng raises $1.2M, plans expansion
By Sean O'Neil | May 26, 2015
Hotels.ng, the Nigeria-based travel booking startup founded by Mark Essien, has raised a $1.2 million Series A round from the Omidyar Network and EchoVC funds. The 34-employee company declined to r... Read More
Facebook continues content push by adding critic reviews to restaurant pages
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Facebook continues content push by adding critic reviews to restaurant pages
By Nick Vivion | May 26, 2015
In its bid to increase the quality of hosted content beyond user-generated tidbits, Facebook has added selected critic reviews to restaurant pages. The run is limited to only a couple of thousand r... Read More
Is virtual reality ready for deployment in commercial airliner cockpits?
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Is virtual reality ready for deployment in commercial airliner cockpits?
By Nick Vivion | May 26, 2015
Boeing is pushing to make virtual reality a standard piece of technology in aircraft cabins. The airplane manufacturer, in partnership with Honeywell, is working to standardize what's known as synt... Read More
The consumer interface (not assets) is where the action is
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The consumer interface (not assets) is where the action is
By PhocusWire | May 26, 2015
Ponder this new reality for a moment - Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles.... Read More
How consumers choose a destination - an untapped opportunity for travel startups?
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How consumers choose a destination - an untapped opportunity for travel startups?
By Alex Bainbridge | May 26, 2015
Web 1.0 travel services tend to start with a website homepage with the question: "Where do you want to go?" The next generation of services, primarily mobile based, tended to assume location (and t... Read More
Priceline Group pumps in additional $250 million into Ctrip
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Priceline Group pumps in additional $250 million into Ctrip
By Kevin May | May 26, 2015
Just days after Expedia Inc reduced its focus on China, Priceline Group has injected a quarter of a billion dollars in Ctrip. The $250 million investment comes less than a year after the Booking.co... Read More
With Expedia out of the picture, what next for Chinese online travel agencies?
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With Expedia out of the picture, what next for Chinese online travel agencies?
By Viewpoints | May 26, 2015
Following the exit of Expedia as its majority owner, eLong is now set for a new chapter. NB: This is an analysis by Ritesh Gupta, a reporter with ChinaTravelNews. After Expedia’s decision to sel... Read More
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