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HomeAway buys Glad To Have You mobile concierge platform

By Kevin May | March 5, 2014

Vacation rental giant HomeAway is aiming to arm property owners with a one-to-one mobile service for their guests after acquiring system provider Glad To Have You. Terms of the acquisition announce... Read More

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Qunar (once again) shows mobile bookings are absolutely soaring

By Karthick Prabu | March 4, 2014

After reporting massive mobile channel growth in its recent quarterly earnings, now Qunar has revealed booking numbers during the Chinese New Year (CNY). Flight bookings during the new year holid... Read More

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How do you persuade customers to post images on Instagram?

By PhocusWire | March 4, 2014

SOCIAL: Alongside the filter-heavy use of Instagram by consumers the world over to show off their travels, there should be more to the image-sharing network for actual brands in the sector beyond ju... Read More

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Harnessing rogue spending on corporate travel: reward the right behavior

By Viewpoints | March 4, 2014

There's been a lot of buzz recently in the world of corporate travel management. Studies show that more and more employees are "going rogue". Millennial workers spend more freely and travel spend i... Read More

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ArrivalGuides partners with Tiqets for tours and activities

By Linda Fox | March 4, 2014

ArrivalGuides plans to offer online activities and events via a tie-up with business-to-business startup Tiqets. The B2B destination content specialist plans to make tours and activities as well as... Read More

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Tips to boost travel bookings: Right email subject, at right time with right content

By Karthick Prabu | March 4, 2014

With booking abandonment rates as high as 81% (at least) in the travel industry, the issue is perhaps one of the top problems travel brands face daily. SaleCycle, a remarketing specialist lists three... Read More

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How native travel app and mobile site usage shakes out

By Karthick Prabu | March 4, 2014

Most holiday related research takes place in mobile websites (94%) versus native applications, claims a new study. Market research company GFK looked at the mobile internet usage of more than 300,0... Read More

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Holy grail of wearable technology - kit that people actually want to wear

By PhocusWire | March 3, 2014

DEVICES: The reasonably big problem with Google Glass and other early-stage wearable technology is that it just isn't cool enough - at least for mass adoption beyond the geeks who think it's the tre... Read More

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Lessons learned on how to use crowd-funding for a travel startup

By Viewpoints | March 3, 2014

I’ve spent many months crowd-funding an Indiegogo campaign, a process which was ultimately successful. Yet, I have mixed feelings about the concept, especially for travel. NB: This is an analysis f... Read More

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Startup pitch: Cruise.me wants to crack the online cruise experience

By Linda Fox | March 3, 2014

Cruise.me was devised to take the pain out of booking a cruise online. The five founders recognised that most online cruise sites are modeled on flight and hotel services but that booking a cruise... Read More

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Top10 secures $8m, plans recruitment drive and European growth

By Linda Fox | March 3, 2014

Hotel comparison service Top10.com has announced Series B funding round of $8 million. The round is led by Balderton Capital and existing investors Accel Partners, Forward Partners and Idealab are... Read More

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Bluetooth LE v NFC showdown [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Glenn Gruber | March 2, 2014

For many years marketers have known that if they could just get the right offer at the right time in front of their customers they could increase conversion dramatically. Similarly, businesses unde... Read More

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Travelport enjoying best volumes in three years, claims leader role in merchandising

By Kevin May | February 28, 2014

With questions over debt structure behind it for the time being, Travelport is getting used to happier quarterly results - seeing "positive traction" across all areas this week. The company says ne... Read More

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Place-based messaging could give travel marketers a bleeding edge advantage

By Nick Vivion | February 28, 2014

There's a new place-based messaging app in town, and it could be the bleeding edge that certain brave travel marketers embrace. Flyby Media allows users to send messages to each other using real-wo... Read More

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Google gives travel industry a boost with launch of Gallery system

By Karthick Prabu | February 28, 2014

Google has created a system to allow third parties to place data (be it an interactive map or a static image map) on Google Maps and make it accessible to a larger audience. The project - Google Ma... Read More

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