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Travelport scoops AirAsia for distribution as low cost carrier renaissance continues

By Kevin May | March 24, 2014

AirAsia will be the latest low cost carrier to join the ranks of legacy airlines on the GDS, following another coup for Travelport which agreed a deal with the airline this week. The Asia-Pacific a... Read More

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Doubletree Global Head talks tech, expansion, Cookie Care and Airbnb [VIDEO]

By Nick Vivion | March 24, 2014

Doubletree Global Head John Grenleaf sat down with Bloomberg to talk about the company's continued expansion strategy, meeting the demands of the digital consumer, and the impact of Airbnb on hotels.... Read More

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Marketing watch: Promoted Pins very close to launch on Pinterest

By Nick Vivion | March 24, 2014

Pinning trailblazers Pinterest are forging into unchartered terrain: that of paid advertising. The company announced experiments with "Promoted Pins" in late 2013, and are set to roll out the platf... Read More

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How to win, manage and optimise Hotel Prices Ads on Google

By Viewpoints | March 24, 2014

As we all know, Google entered the hotel metasearch game with the introduction of Google Hotel Price Ads (HPA) in a number of Google products. These included Google Hotel Finder, Google Maps, Googl... Read More

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Asians can't travel without mobiles, Westerners fear forgetting credit cards

By Karthick Prabu | March 24, 2014

Travellers across three regions - Asia, Europe and the US - appear to have very different priorities over what they can't live without on a trip. Priceline-owned online travel agency Agoda asked 50... Read More

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Last Minute Travel brings agent wholesale prices to consumers on mobile

By Nick Vivion | March 24, 2014

Last Minute Travel has released a new iOS application that offers access to a swathe of wholesale travel inventory to users. The app promises access to wholesale pricing usually reserved for travel... Read More

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CarTrawler majority stake bought by BC Partners in big bucks deal

By Kevin May | March 24, 2014

Car rental technology provider CarTrawler has sold a majority stake to BC Partners, owner of the Phones4U retail chain, for an undisclosed fee. A minority stake in the company has also been snapped... Read More

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Travelocity draws in dreamers on Twitter and Instagram with #iwannago campaign

By Nick Vivion | March 21, 2014

Travelocity recently took to Twitter and Instagram to splash out on a multi-week brand campaign under the hashtag #iwannago. The campaign encourages users to generate content by asking submissions for... Read More

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How to reach travelers on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Nick Vivion | March 21, 2014

Native advertising specialists Ampush has compiled some of statistics on how Facebook users engage with travel, providing some actionable conclusions for marketers looking to leverage the platform.... Read More

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Boutiques go digital: 2014 is the Year of the Connected Hotel

By Viewpoints | March 21, 2014

Over one-third of the world’s hotel inventory is not bookable online today. Across destinations like Africa, India and Latin America, the world’s top-rated hotels are managing bookings via email and s... Read More

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How a SpiceJet cabin crew stunt turned sour when YouTube clips went viral

By Karthick Prabu | March 21, 2014

[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2VrVivIxI " video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/spicejet-tnooz.png"] Holi, the fe... Read More

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Travel brands and bloggers beware - understanding the legitimate guest post

By Viewpoints | March 21, 2014

Guest blogging is dead, declared Matt Cutts, Google’s head of webspam team in January. Citing the fact that what once was an authentic and legitimate way of sharing content and views has become ove... Read More

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Are these eight of the most social media-friendly hotels in the world?

By Karthick Prabu | March 21, 2014

In the classification of hotels by type - airport hotels, beachfront hotels, downtown hotels, etc - perhaps it's high time to add a new category: "social media-friendly"? Online reputation manageme... Read More

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Locish locates $820k for pivot into question-and-answer for locals

By Nick Vivion | March 20, 2014

Local knowledge travel startup Locish has raised $820k to fund a pivot into a question-and-answer service for local experiences. The mobile startup (TLabs here) originally launched from Greece, and... Read More

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Facebook speaks: how engagement in travel is evolving

By Sean O'Neil | March 20, 2014

Lee McCabe has been the global head of travel at Facebook, the social network with 1.2 billion users, since October 2012. A veteran of Expedia, he knows the travel industry well. McCabe recently sp... Read More

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