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Cyber crime in travel – while the cat’s away the devils will play

By Viewpoints | November 7, 2013

Travel brands have progressed from the original basic website offerings to the sophisticated all-encompassing experiences we see on some of the leading providers’ sites these days. The sector has e... Read More

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Email marketing campaigns can be amazing - here are ten examples

By PhocusWire | November 7, 2013

MARKETING: With almost every travel brand on the planet having some kind of newsletter or CRM mechanism via email it often hard to sort through the amazing from the poor ones. And, sadly, most of th... Read More

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Factoid overload - Sixty things you should know about social media in travel

By Viewpoints | November 7, 2013

Here’s a selection of mostly social media tips that I picked up from World Travel Market in London this week. NB: This is a contributed article by Julie McNamee from Webnwords. Social media’s "D... Read More

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Behold the slow-moving zombie technologies that refuse to die

By PhocusWire | November 7, 2013

SYSTEMS: The tech press is full of stories of zombie startups - those that look alive but are actually just plodding about with nowhere to go. But there are probably equal numbers of systems and pie... Read More

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Startup pitch: SegundoHogar targets Latin American vacation rental market

By Karthick Prabu | November 6, 2013

SegundoHogar, a Latin America-based startup, wants to takes a piece of the peer-to-peer sharing economy by focusing on the vacation rental space in the the region. SegundoHogar allows property owne... Read More

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Cruiseline.com gets into mobile with purchase of ShipMate Cruise App

By Nick Vivion | November 6, 2013

Social cruise and verified cruise review site Cruiseline.com has purchased the ShipMate cruise app, which is the world's largest mobile cruise community with more than 170k users on both the iOS and A... Read More

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HomeAway opens door to APAC with majority stake in New Zealand's Bookabach

By Nick Vivion | November 6, 2013

HomeAway continues to expand aggressively into the worldwide vacation rental market, announcing today that it has invested in New Zealand's Bookabach. The purchase is aimed at expanding their APAC pre... Read More

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Wifi is now the communications hub of the hotel

By Viewpoints | November 6, 2013

In our hyper-connected 24-7 world, most of us regard being able to go online as a non-negotiable essential and something that we just can’t live without. This means we want, nay, expect hotels to g... Read More

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Ctrip puts its mobile platform in the spotlight, reports strong quarter growth

By Karthick Prabu | November 6, 2013

Ctrip announced in third quarter earnings that daily transaction value from mobile channels has hit a record $16.4m (RMB100 million). The company expects mobile to become the most important booking... Read More

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Rejoice - hardware is cool again

By PhocusWire | November 5, 2013

SYSTEMS: Most of the startups that have entered the travel industry in recent years (and many of the others littering the tech world) are services, platforms or app. Very few are actually pieces of... Read More

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Social media wins for keeping in touch on trips, mobile used mostly for maps and info

By Karthick Prabu | November 5, 2013

Some three out of five travellers now use social media such as Facebook as a cheaper tool to contact people when on trips. A recent TripAdvisor TripBarometer Mobile and Social trends survey of UK t... Read More

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Open source trip planning application offers alternative to other services

By Nick Vivion | November 5, 2013

A developer has created the foundation of a trip planning service, called MyWanderlust, and has open sourced the code for others to tweak as they see fit. The trip planning space has been very crow... Read More

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It's more than just a video: Lessons from airline marketing on YouTube

By Nick Vivion | November 5, 2013

The rise of in-flight video systems have given airlines a new distribution channel for common facets of the flying experience - such as the safety demonstration. Savvy airlines have realized that thes... Read More

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Quick, create some urgency to improve online conversion

By Viewpoints | November 5, 2013

The tactic of using urgency to improve online conversions has not been widely picked up in the hospitality sector. It should be firmly on the radar for hoteliers because of its potential to reduce... Read More

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How does a Middle East online travel agency crack India? Musafir says it has the answer

By Karthick Prabu | November 5, 2013

Musafir, Middle East-based OTA recently launched its India service with $16 million investment and legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as brand ambassador. Tnooz spoke to Albert Dias, co-founder,... Read More

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