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Did anger at Justine Sacco racist tweet accomplish anything?
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Did anger at Justine Sacco racist tweet accomplish anything?
By PhocusWire | December 24, 2013
SOCIAL: So-called Twitter storms, when a company or individual makes a faux pas and the network goes into collective anger mode, happen fairly regularly and will continue to take place. Justine Sacc... Read More
JetBlue hops on the holiday season bandwagon to surprise travellers
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JetBlue hops on the holiday season bandwagon to surprise travellers
By Karthick Prabu | December 24, 2013
[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf--r8TsCWo" video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/JetBlue-Christmas-surprise-bookings-69... Read More
Why consumers may not like your travel images
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Why consumers may not like your travel images
By Viewpoints | December 24, 2013
Visual content is taking over on some of the best marketing practices in almost every industry, specially in tourism where travel images are powerful elements. NB: This is an analysis by Sabrina Lu... Read More
Reporter favourites of 2013 - Sean O'Neill
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Reporter favourites of 2013 - Sean O'Neill
By Sean O'Neil | December 24, 2013
Tracking travel shoppers across devices, airlines modernizing airfare distribution, and changing leadership at a major global distribution system... All of these rise to the top of my mind, looking... Read More
Cracking the delivery code for email marketing
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Cracking the delivery code for email marketing
By PhocusWire | December 24, 2013
MARKETING: There is always plenty of advice around for businesses to figure out how to get more people to read their email marketing materials. But less is shared about the finer points of getting e... Read More
Chinese write the most positive travel reviews (and use least number of words!)
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Chinese write the most positive travel reviews (and use least number of words!)
By Karthick Prabu | December 24, 2013
Two-thirds of hotel guest travel reviews are positive and English-speaking travellers are the wordiest, reveals a study by ReviewPro. The online reputation management company analyzed over 15 milli... Read More
Getting beyond the Trough of Sorrow for startups
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Getting beyond the Trough of Sorrow for startups
By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013
STARTUPS: Who would be a startup, eh? Well, in the travel industry, despite the failure rates and difficulties with marketing and complex products, there are hundreds. HUNDREDS! Luckily there are a... Read More
Holiday travel trends - searches, bookings and destinations [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Holiday travel trends - searches, bookings and destinations [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Karthick Prabu | December 23, 2013
Travel brands across the globe are slicing and dicing data about their holiday travel trends (we're currently receiving up to three of these type press releases a day). nSight, a travel data aggreg... Read More
The state of destination marketing in 2013
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The state of destination marketing in 2013
By Viewpoints | December 23, 2013
Heavily involved destination marketing, I attended over a dozen tourism conferences during 2013 on four continents, including our own SoMeT events. Looking back at the pictures I took and the prese... Read More
Welcome to the borg - the future of telemarketing and customer service
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Welcome to the borg - the future of telemarketing and customer service
By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013
SYSTEMS: Behind the scenes at countless ecommerce brands is often a sizeable (sometimes huge) department for interacting with customers the old way: AKA speaking to a human. But even this area of cu... Read More
Off Track Planet raises $500,000 to build travel discovery platform
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Off Track Planet raises $500,000 to build travel discovery platform
By Karthick Prabu | December 23, 2013
Off Track Planet, a travel guide service provider, has raised $500,000 in funding from Brandery Accelerator, CincyTech and other angel investors. This new fund will be used to to further expand its... Read More
What is Social Media 3.0?
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What is Social Media 3.0?
By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013
SOCIAL: Travel brands, perhaps as much or more than most other industries, have finally got to grips with and are capitalising on the power of social media - at least from an engagement and customer... Read More
Bravofly acquires Jetcost as OTA-meta lines continue to merge
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Bravofly acquires Jetcost as OTA-meta lines continue to merge
By Kevin May | December 23, 2013
Further evidence in the world of intermediaries that umbrella companies are seeing the value adding metasearch to the armoury as Jetcost gets snapped up by Bravofly. The Bravofly Rumbo Group bought... Read More
How 2013 changed our opinion on privacy
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How 2013 changed our opinion on privacy
By PhocusWire | December 21, 2013
SYSTEMS: Personal privacy online and via telecommunications was thrown into a spotlight even Wikileaks couldn't highlight this year as US spy shops were found to be either doing their job or stretch... Read More
Staying the course - social travel service Minube raises $1.4M
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Staying the course - social travel service Minube raises $1.4M
By Kevin May | December 21, 2013
Social travel websites were appearing on the scene in 2007 at a similar rate to flash sale startups - in other words: perhaps one or two every month. Minube has managed to buck the trend of those t... Read More
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