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Atlanta air passengers show most healthy appetite for mobile services
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Atlanta air passengers show most healthy appetite for mobile services
By Nick Vivion | January 8, 2014
The annual Passenger IT Trends Survey, which Tnooz covered here, revealed that nearly all travelers on a global basis were still reluctant to use mobile services. The survey, which was statisticall... Read More
The empathy of hospitality marketing
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The empathy of hospitality marketing
By Viewpoints | January 8, 2014
Forget hospitality marketing for a moment and think as a consumer - how do you like to feel when you arrive to a new destination? Checking into your room is a breeze. The hotel staff is surprisingl... Read More
Access (wifi) for all but is it legal?
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Access (wifi) for all but is it legal?
By Linda Fox | January 8, 2014
As travellers increasingly expect free wifi in hotels, airports and other public places, one company has researched how most networks are not legally compliant. Legalities vary from country to coun... Read More
Travel SOCIAL roundup - January 2014
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Travel SOCIAL roundup - January 2014
By PhocusWire | January 8, 2014
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SOCIAL in tourism and hospitality for January 2014. 8 January 2014 100% Pure New Zealand Facebook page tops a million fans The... Read More
Goibibo launches e-wallet service to process instant refund
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Goibibo launches e-wallet service to process instant refund
By Karthick Prabu | January 7, 2014
India-based OTA Goibibo has launched a virtual wallet, goCash, which will instantly credit customers with refunds on cancellations. In India, processing refund is an area that definitely needs impr... Read More
3D global destination mapping shines at center of KLM's first iPad app
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3D global destination mapping shines at center of KLM's first iPad app
By Nick Vivion | January 7, 2014
KLM's first iPad app leaned on social media users and frequent fliers to deliver a comprehensive app that includes trip management, with boarding pass and seat selection, alongside interactive flight... Read More
Snowbon owner wins Euro 1M funding round to push ski extras platform
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Snowbon owner wins Euro 1M funding round to push ski extras platform
By Kevin May | January 7, 2014
Right on cue for the peak skiing season in Europe, Snow & Alps, the company behind the Snowbon activities and ski gear website, has raised Euro 1 million. The injection of capital comes via Ger... Read More
Selling social media clicks has become big business
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Selling social media clicks has become big business
By PhocusWire | January 7, 2014
SOCIAL: Where there is an opportunity to increase a brand's profile there are always opportunists not that far behind. And so, as popularity on social media has become a currency of sorts, networks... Read More
Why Rome2Rio used photo heat maps to plot where to expand
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Why Rome2Rio used photo heat maps to plot where to expand
By Karthick Prabu | January 6, 2014
Rome2Rio, like many other companies, has identified new regions where it wants to improve its service... but the trigger has come from an unusual source. Tanel Tammet, a computer scientist and prof... Read More
Spawning a monster - first travel blog was born 20 years ago
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Spawning a monster - first travel blog was born 20 years ago
By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014
SOCIAL: It's rather incredible now that something as innocent as posting a few travel notes onto the information superhighway back in the early-1990s could have triggered a sub-sector of the industr... Read More
Hospitality standards and P2P: Airbnb and Housetrip talk building a global network of hoteliers
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Hospitality standards and P2P: Airbnb and Housetrip talk building a global network of hoteliers
By Nick Vivion | January 6, 2014
One of the most poignant criticisms of P2P accommodation websites is that the network's decentralized nature leads to slack standards as far as hospitality. The argument is that such a large collectio... Read More
Airports 2.0: Visioning an airport experience that works for travelers, vendors and airport owners
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Airports 2.0: Visioning an airport experience that works for travelers, vendors and airport owners
By Viewpoints | January 6, 2014
Love to travel but hate airports? If yes, then you’re like most people. The word “airport” just conjures up so many negative emotions – lines, delays, unhealthy food, and overpriced merchandise. Bu... Read More
Don't be tempted to use Facebook to evaluate future employees
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Don't be tempted to use Facebook to evaluate future employees
By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014
SOCIAL: Aah, Facebook - where all the craziness of our private lives is documented for friends to see. When an individual's privacy settings are low, recruiters have used the omnipresent social netw... Read More
Facebook bug snags the social marketing of travel brands like Royal Caribbean
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Facebook bug snags the social marketing of travel brands like Royal Caribbean
By Sean O'Neil | January 6, 2014
Talk about a "social" blunder. Last week, travel marketers noticed a bug in Facebook's software that briefly snared the social marketing campaigns of major brands like Royal Caribbean International.... Read More
Behold the augmented reality contact lenses
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Behold the augmented reality contact lenses
By PhocusWire | January 6, 2014
SYSTEMS: One of the issues wearable technology has in its drive to gain adoption within the mass ranks of consumers (rather than just geeks and hipsters) is that a lot of the hardware just looks, so... Read More
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