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Data harvesting to win travel marketing in the future

By Viewpoints | April 10, 2014

Johnny Depp’s new movie Transcendence is about a sentient machine that combines infinite, collective intelligence with the full range of human emotions. It inspired me to contemplate the future of... Read More

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How Didi Dache increased daily bookings by 15 times to 5 million in 77 days?

By Karthick Prabu | April 10, 2014

After a series of investments secured by Chinese mobile-based taxi hailing services recently, now Didi Dache has reported a 15X increase in daily bookings in just 77 days. In early January 2014, th... Read More

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Intrepid Travel picks up remaining stake in Urban Adventures

By Linda Fox | April 10, 2014

Moves in the tours and activities sector this morning as Intrepid Travel acquires the remaining stake in Thailand-based Urban Adventures. Urban Adventures (TLabs here) was set up in late 2009 as a... Read More

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Qunar CEO speaks about automation, new features, Chinese challenges and more

By Karthick Prabu | April 9, 2014

A big rumor doing the rounds in recent days is a possible merger of the China's top two travel sites - Qunar and Ctrip. Such a deal with between the pair - a metasearch service and online travel agen... Read More

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Heartbleed: Major travel sites like Expedia and Priceline appear to have dodged a bullet

By Sean O'Neil | April 9, 2014

It's a computer bug with a name out of a James Bond movie: heartbleed. The security flaw, which exposes data to hackers, appears to threaten hundreds and possibly thousands of websites. Respected U... Read More

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How we'll travel in 2024: Skyscanner sees semantic search, Google Glass, and more

By Sean O'Neil | April 9, 2014

Skyscanner, the UK-based metasearch site, unveiled today a report forecasting what travel will be like in 2024. A decade from now, the report says, next-generation digital technologies will have tr... Read More

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New advertising technology drops targetable units into in-flight browsing

By Nick Vivion | April 9, 2014

Advertising technology is rapidly evolving to include in-flight internet sessions, thus allowing brands to specifically target fliers as they use the internet. The linkup is between WiFi monetizati... Read More

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Singapore Tourism Board accelerates virality by deleting its already viral marketing video

By Karthick Prabu | April 9, 2014

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Can you protect your site as Google heats up web spam war?

By Viewpoints | April 9, 2014

Google has ramped up its war on web spam in recent months with some big brand web sites including travel companies reportedly being penalised because they are believed to be trying to manipulate their... Read More

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Startup pitch: DealScoopr is a travel discovery engine from Amazon and Expedia vets

By Sean O'Neil | April 9, 2014

Seattle-based Dealscoopr describes itself as a "travel deals discovery engine". The site takes a user's personal preferences, social profile, location, and other signals to offer customized search... Read More

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One simple chart to show why airline merchandising gets so complicated

By Kevin May | April 8, 2014

At the heart of IATA's NDC project and the efforts by global distribution systems to evolve alongside the carriers, is a single concept: airline merchandising. It's not particularly new, in some re... Read More

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Japan Timeline: Local governments get boost with new web portal from inbound operator

By Nick Vivion | April 8, 2014

Inbound travel operator and travel agency intermediary Freeplus has come up with a clever way to engage international travel agents with information about Japan, while simultaneously allowing local pr... Read More

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Hug this bot: Internet of Caring coming to a hotel near you?

By Nick Vivion | April 8, 2014

While the Internet of Things continues to heat up both imaginations and balance sheets - to the tune of $3.2 billion for Nest - there's a new buzzword brewing in the contextual cauldron - the Internet... Read More

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Derbysoft raises $9 million to strengthen metasearch platform, launch new marketing service

By Karthick Prabu | April 8, 2014

Hotel technology solutions provider DerbySoft has raised $9 million in Series D round from technology-focused venture capital firm DCM. The Shanghai-based company will use this new fund to strength... Read More

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IHS, owned by Battery Ventures, acquires InnLink and TravLynx in hotel CRS landgrab

By Sean O'Neil | April 8, 2014

Hotels originally set up computer reservation systems (CRS) as a way to record bookings. CRS quickly became more than just a way to track sales. It became a business of its own. And that industry n... Read More

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