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The reality of distribution in tours and activities

By Stephen Joyce | January 13, 2015

I write this article in the hope that someday soon the reality of distribution in the tours and activities space will change, and change dramatically. For years I've been advocating for increased d... Read More

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Expedia creates new Sell Tonight tool to help hotels push last-minute rooms

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2015

Expedia Inc is adding a "Sell Tonight" function to Expedia PartnerCentral (EPC), the extranet that hotel managers use to upload room and rates inventory to the company's online travel agencies. The... Read More

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Singapore Airlines and MTT, SITA and OnAir unite for analytics platform, and more...

By Kevin May | January 13, 2015

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for January 2015. Tuesday 13 January 2015: Singapore Airlines strikes Mobile Travel Technologies... Read More

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SilverRail nabs most of Linkon, the Swedish train booker

By Sean O'Neil | January 12, 2015

SilverRail Technologies, a business-to-business platform for train ticketing, has acquired 75% of Linkon (pronounced "link on"), which powers the online retailing of Swedish trains. The 110-employe... Read More

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RelayRides revs up car-sharing, fueled by $52M in financing to date

By Sean O'Neil | January 12, 2015

RelayRides, a marketplace connecting car owners with car renters, is having a good trip, says CEO Andre Haddad. Haddad describes 2014 as a breakthrough year for his company, which booked three time... Read More

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India's Zomato targets Yelp with purchase of Urbanspoon

By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015

Zomato is a restaurant-focused startup that was founded in India in 2008. Since then, the company has expanded steadily throughout the world - except for the United States. This is rapidly changing... Read More

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Facebook still king of popular kids on social media, with highest engagement

By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015

Much has been made about the impending demise of Facebook, most especially when considering the platform's waning popularity among teenage users. The stats related to the network's slowing user gro... Read More

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Happy maps - charting more than just an A to B experience

By Linda Fox | January 12, 2015

Out with cars and concrete buildings and in with public spaces and Victorian houses - that's what researchers at Yahoo Labs would have us believe when it comes to navigating a city. Based on the pr... Read More

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Airbnb ecosystem expands to include hosts-hosting-hosts service

By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015

The continued success of sharing economy companies such as Airbnb and HomeAway has led to a wholesale shift in city economics as more residents rent accommodation to visitors. And just as the pressure... Read More

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The war on wifi: Hotels need to stop fighting the future

By Viewpoints | January 12, 2015

Despite unprecedented growth in recent years, hotels have forgotten what every Stan Lee fan already knows: with great power comes great responsibility. As we all know now, one of the leaders of the... Read More

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Messaging services are killing SMS, but what comes next?

By PhocusWire | January 12, 2015

WhatsApp revealed last week that it now has more than 700 million monthly users.... Read More

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Why people abandon a travel booking online [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | January 12, 2015

It varies between sectors and types of users, but conversion rates for those making a travel booking are generally low - often in the single digit percentage range. But why do so many consumers who... Read More

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Line integrates taxi app into messaging platform in Japan

By Martin Cowen | January 11, 2015

Line, the Japanese messaging service, has launched Line Taxi as a product which works entirely within a users' existing account. The tech set-up is similar to other taxi-app services, other than th... Read More

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Accor Hotels: How it's adapting to mobile

By Sean O'Neil | January 9, 2015

Last October, Accor Hotels unveiled its five-year, 225 million euro plan for "reinventing the customer experience through technology." (See Tnooz's coverage.) For an update, Tnooz spoke with a few... Read More

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New drone footage marketplace makes it simple to snag aerial views

By Nick Vivion | January 9, 2015

Smart travel marketers value captivating content - and drones generally offer a fresh perspective that engages uses while also showing a useful overview of a particular location. However, it's not... Read More

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