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Seizing the local ground - tips for destinations on creeping up search rankings

By Viewpoints | March 11, 2014

Local hotels, especially boutique properties, are facing interesting challenges in today’s digital marketplace. On the one hand, online travel agents are bringing visitors and exposure to the smaller... Read More

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MakeMyTrip reveals share sale plan to fund future acquisitions

By Karthick Prabu | March 11, 2014

Indian online travel agent MakeMyTrip along with certain shareholders of the company plan to offer and sell up to three million and one-and-a-half million ordinary shares respectively. With the cur... Read More

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China-based Didatuan to shutdown group discount model, plans pivot

By Karthick Prabu | March 11, 2014

Beijing-based flash sales service Didatuan plans to shut down its group discount model on March 31, 2014, the company announced on its website. However, its not a complete shutdown of the brand as... Read More

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Ryanair back on the GDS after ten years via Travelport agreement

By Kevin May | March 11, 2014

Travelport will be the first global distribution system to have Ryanair fares for a decade after a significant u-turn in strategy by the low cost carrier. In a multi-year agreement announced by the... Read More

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iBeacons and airports: Results from a real-world test

By Nick Vivion | March 11, 2014

iBeacons have been a much buzzed about new technology, using low-energy Bluetooth to deliver much more specific proximity awareness than GPS. Travel and retail applications have been two of the mos... Read More

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Back to the future - Hotelopia steps again into EasyJet Holidays role

By Linda Fox | March 10, 2014

Hotelopia has been handed a contract of more than three years to furnish easyJet with hotel accommodation for its holidays arm. Statements from the TUI-owned brand and the airline say the deal come... Read More

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Welcome to the battle for disruptive models and technology in hotels

By Viewpoints | March 10, 2014

The global hotel industry is sitting at a crossroads of three dimensions that will unquestionably experience significant disruption in the coming years. NB: This is an analysis by Robert Cole, foun... Read More

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Thomas Cook launches automated travel deal request service on Twitter

By Karthick Prabu | March 10, 2014

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Car rental service Drive.sg raises almost $800,000, plots Asia expansion

By Karthick Prabu | March 10, 2014

Singapore-based online car rental markeplace Drive.sg has raised $790,000 (SGD 1 million) in a Series A round from Insas Berhad, an investment company in Malaysia. Drive.sg will use the fund to exp... Read More

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London to open travel tech incubator hub

By Sean O'Neil | March 7, 2014

A startup incubator catering specifically to local travel tech startups has been announced by the promotional office of Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The Traveltech Lab will provide shared workspa... Read More

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Brazilian travel start-up Hotel Urbano draws $50 million investment round

By Sean O'Neil | March 7, 2014

Finding venture capital funding has not been easy for Brazilian start-ups because of recent economic turbulence. Yet Hotel Urbano, one of Brazil's fastest-growing marketplaces for online travel, ha... Read More

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Not at SXSW? Bite into these tech-focused presentations instead

By Nick Vivion | March 7, 2014

The annual over-stimulation of SXSW is a ritual for many in the startup and technology worlds, and even though tens of thousands of techies saddle up to Austin, there are plenty of people far far away... Read More

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Not so fast: Here's more on airline responsiveness via Twitter

By Nick Vivion | March 7, 2014

A new analysis on airline responsiveness on Twitter by the team at Conversocial shows the top performers as far as speed of customer service on the platform. Of course, each of these social custome... Read More

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Today's kids, tomorrow's travellers and what they are doing online

By Linda Fox | March 7, 2014

For some insight on how travel companies might shape products and services for up and coming generations, it's worth looking at numbers on children's current online behaviour. The latest figures fr... Read More

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LeisureLink sells to VacationRoost

By Linda Fox | March 7, 2014

More moves in the vacation rental marketplace with news that VacationRoost Group has acquired LeisureLink. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but a statement says the combination of the two... Read More

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