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MapQuest releases place sharing and traffic rerouting to mobile product
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MapQuest releases place sharing and traffic rerouting to mobile product
By Nick Vivion | May 20, 2013
MapQuest continues to bolster their brand with a refreshed and reinvigorated product offering. The latest update to the mobile experience is an integrated social sharing feature for places.... Read More
Booking.com crawls towards TripAdvisor - Top US travel websites, April 2013
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Booking.com crawls towards TripAdvisor - Top US travel websites, April 2013
By Kevin May | May 20, 2013
TripAdvisor might have a strong position in the list of leading travel sites in the US but Booking.com is slowly catching up.... Read More
Hotel digital conundrum: brand building VS demand generation
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Hotel digital conundrum: brand building VS demand generation
By Viewpoints | May 20, 2013
Hotel marketers may come to look over the previous century as a time of simplicity and certainty.... Read More
Travellers want wifi in hotels to be free, but Asian travellers happy to pay for in-flight web
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Travellers want wifi in hotels to be free, but Asian travellers happy to pay for in-flight web
By Karthick Prabu | May 20, 2013
While two-thirds of hotels in Europe now offer free wifi, much to the relief of many travellers, their counterparts in India and Singapore have a vastly different opinion when it comes in-flight connections.... Read More
Can Google+ work if it has high quality images, better links and uses Big Data?
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Can Google+ work if it has high quality images, better links and uses Big Data?
By PhocusWire | May 20, 2013
Google versus Facebook - a fascinating battle between between two giants of the web, not least because Google’s Plus network hasn’t really hit Facebook too hard yet.... Read More
Roomixer presents a twist on hotel bookings by monetising turnaways
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Roomixer presents a twist on hotel bookings by monetising turnaways
By Linda Fox | May 20, 2013
The seed for Roomixer was planted a year ago - a marketplace for hotels and vacation rentals to trade business they are turning away... Read More
No frills carriers fly ahead, Thomas Cook overtakes Expedia - Top UK travel websites, April 2013
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No frills carriers fly ahead, Thomas Cook overtakes Expedia - Top UK travel websites, April 2013
By PhocusWire | May 20, 2013
The gap between EasyJet and Ryanair has narrowed at the top of leading airline websites in the UK, but the pair have also stretched their respective leads over British Airways.... Read More
Will Google do an Amazon and one-click-checkout the rest of the web
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Will Google do an Amazon and one-click-checkout the rest of the web
By PhocusWire | May 18, 2013
While Amazon offers the convenient checkout service to retail-website builders, other retailers are understandably loath to embrace the e-commerce giant's tools.... Read More
The Tnooz social life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The Tnooz social life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Karthick Prabu | May 17, 2013
At Tnooz, we are obsessed with our back-end engines (yes, lets keep it plural). In addition to the time spent in writing articles, we look at how our content performs in the wider web through analytics.... Read More
TrustYou plugs global review index into GDS workflow
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TrustYou plugs global review index into GDS workflow
By Nick Vivion | May 17, 2013
Travel agents seeking insights into potential properties for customers are often left to search the Internet far and wide to glean perspective on a particular property, a challenge which has been directly addressed by reputation managers TrustYou with their newest product.... Read More
Startups should avoid these ten PR disasters
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Startups should avoid these ten PR disasters
By PhocusWire | May 17, 2013
No massive marketing budget? Smaller companies and startups often find themselves relying on the media thought PR stunts and initiatives.... Read More
Carnaval time for Booking.com, back on top - Top Brazil travel websites, April 2013
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Carnaval time for Booking.com, back on top - Top Brazil travel websites, April 2013
By PhocusWire | May 17, 2013
Priceline-owned Booking.com has found itself leading the pack once again in the list of the most popular travel websites in Brazil during April.... Read More
Thomas Cook axes real agents but taps Triporati for discovery and online tips
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Thomas Cook axes real agents but taps Triporati for discovery and online tips
By Linda Fox | May 17, 2013
Just days after First Choice released its 'Happiness Included' online service, Thomas Cook gives us details of its own drive to inspire... Read More
What is the ROI of your (expensive) kids? Should be the same as your hotel guests
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What is the ROI of your (expensive) kids? Should be the same as your hotel guests
By Viewpoints | May 17, 2013
What is the ROI of your kids? And let’s be clear, they cost an absolute fortune these days. So, this recent Mother’s Day got me to thinking about this very question.... Read More
RezNext speaks about distribution challenges, growth markets
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RezNext speaks about distribution challenges, growth markets
By Karthick Prabu | May 17, 2013
Technology has obviously transformed the way hotels operate compared to the good old days of the 1990s. No more so than in distribution, which has arguably faced the most dramatic changes.... Read More
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