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Expedia plays down search visibility drama, constantly audits SEO practices

By Kevin May | February 7, 2014

After Expedia insisted on an inevitable "no comment" for weeks, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was always going to face questions during its latest financial results about the search saga. Expedia.com was r... Read More

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New Facebook service Paper is for people who hate Facebook

By PhocusWire | February 6, 2014

SOCIAL: Perhaps Facebook is turning into a Google type brand, where it creates new things in the hope that they will resonate with enough of the audience, and then be given a wider promotion and rol... Read More

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MakeMyTrip buys EasyToBook hotel service for $5 million

By Kevin May | February 6, 2014

Just two and a half years after selling up to BCD Holdings-owned leisure group Travix, hotel booking site EasyToBook has another owner - MakeMyTrip. The deal sees India-based (but US-listed) online... Read More

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Mobile iterations: TripAdvisor, TripLingo and Trover update mobile experience

By Nick Vivion | February 6, 2014

A trio of companies have made noteworthy iterations to their mobile offerings. Here's how it all shakes out. TripAdvisor TripAdvisor has released a small iteration that could have big impact for... Read More

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Tourico takes to the Web to curate classes of new employees

By Nick Vivion | February 6, 2014

Hiring is one of the toughest parts of any industry, and travel industry executives are continually facing those HR challenges. Especially in the travel agent/travel wholesaling segment, where constan... Read More

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Broken down, how OTAs are eating hotel business

By Linda Fox | February 6, 2014

Fact - online travel agents are taking everyone's lunch, apparently charging pretty high commissions and have become pretty good at the whole hotel distribution game. No discussion about OTAs and h... Read More

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Kayak decides to continue working with ITA Software after all

By Kevin May | February 6, 2014

Kayak says it will stay best buddies (of sorts) with ITA Software after all - despite being at the forefront of the lobbying group opposed to Google buying ITA in 2010. The travel search company's... Read More

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KLM backs cabin crew technology startup MI Airline with Euro 1.2 million round

By Kevin May | February 6, 2014

MI Airline, a device-based system to help air cabin crew organise and assist passengers during a flight, has secured Euro 1.2 million in a second round of investment. The capital comes by way of th... Read More

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Flightfox runs from the crowd and heads straight for the individual expert

By Nick Vivion | February 5, 2014

In a dramatic shift, Flightfox has changed their business model from that of competitively crowdsourcing to connecting directly with one individual expert. The new business model is that each trave... Read More

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Beyond the basics - Making Big Data a bigger deal for hotels

By Morris Sim | February 5, 2014

Big Data has paved the way for understanding consumer context and can help you better monetize and increase yield or so all the headlines will have you believe. But, the view from the sales and mar... Read More

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TripAdvisor Flights gets a new look [UPDATED with corrections]

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

TripAdvisor, which has mastered the dark social arts when it comes to hotels, has relaunched its flight metasearch tool serving 31 countries. It's spreading its user-generated model into airfare sales... Read More

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ANA rolls out new content for its robust Is Japan Cool digital marketing campaign

By Nick Vivion | February 5, 2014

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You have to pivot to win it: Original social travel site WAYN on survival

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

The travel social network Where Are You Now, better known by its acronym WAYN, has stayed the course since 2002, despite criticism. It now has traffic that other social travel sites would kill for.... Read More

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The most searched-for travel brands on Yahoo in 2013 reveals marketing all-stars

By Sean O'Neil | February 5, 2014

Tnooz asked Yahoo to generate a list of the most searched-for travel site terms via Yahoo Search in 2013 for the US and the UK. The list of typical travel-related terms in organic search implicitly... Read More

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Mobile Payments Index show marked increase in mobile payments

By Nick Vivion | February 4, 2014

Payment solutions provider Adyen has released their third Mobile Payments Index, and the results are clear: mobile payments are poised to pounce. The data covers September to December of 2013, and... Read More

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