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Lastminute.com denies regional hotel cull in favour of city focus
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Lastminute.com denies regional hotel cull in favour of city focus
By Linda Fox | March 7, 2012
Lastminute.com has moved to scotch rumours it is shaking up its hotel portfolio as part of a strategy to focus on properties in large cities... Read More
GetYourGuide lands $2M funding round from Brent Hoberman group and Swoodoo founders
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GetYourGuide lands $2M funding round from Brent Hoberman group and Swoodoo founders
By Kevin May | March 7, 2012
More investment coming into travel startups this week, with GetYourGuide landing $2 million from a string of high profile investors.... Read More
Online frustration shows travel companies still not getting the basics right
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Online frustration shows travel companies still not getting the basics right
By Viewpoints | March 7, 2012
Recent research showed that travellers in emerging markets were around 30% more likely to be frustrated by their experience of researching travel online than those in developed countries.... Read More
Expedia extends lead over Thomson - Top UK travel sites, March 3 2012
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Expedia extends lead over Thomson - Top UK travel sites, March 3 2012
By PhocusWire | March 7, 2012
Three weeks after relinquishing its market leading crown, Thomson is losing more ground to Expedia in the list of leading travel websites in the UK.... Read More
Amazon-style platform comes to travel technology via new retail system
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Amazon-style platform comes to travel technology via new retail system
By Linda Fox | March 6, 2012
OpenJaw Technologies is using ITB Berlin to unveil its t-Retail platform for online travel... Read More
Tripbod bags investment round and launches travel advice service from locals
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Tripbod bags investment round and launches travel advice service from locals
By Kevin May | March 6, 2012
Tripbod has secured a "sizeable" seed round (in the region of upper-six figures) in a bid to grow its existing product and support the launch of new services.... Read More
Hilton hotels go missing or hidden in contract dispute with Orbitz Worldwide
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Hilton hotels go missing or hidden in contract dispute with Orbitz Worldwide
By Dennis Schaal | March 6, 2012
Orbitz Worldwide says its multi-year contract with Hilton Worldwide and its 10 brands has expired and beginning March 2 it stopped showing some Hilton inventory and "reduced the prominence" of other properties on Orbitz Worldwide's global sites.... Read More
Sabre-Red-App-Centre
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Should Sabre be red-faced about Sabre Red App Centre launch?
By Dennis Schaal | March 6, 2012
Sabre has launched the Sabre Red App Centre to much verbal fanfare.... Read More
TLabs Reprise - Tripedge 12 months on
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TLabs Reprise - Tripedge 12 months on
By Kevin May | March 6, 2012
Tripedge is a UK-based consumer-to-agent referral service, which first featured on Tnooz in March 2011. So what happened in the intervening 12 months?... Read More
iStopover pairs apartment rentals with ... limos?
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iStopover pairs apartment rentals with ... limos?
By Dennis Schaal | March 6, 2012
Peer-to-peer marketplace iStopOver partnered with Limos.com to give consumers the option of booking a private car with their short-term apartment or vacation rental.... Read More
What Else? Cabforce investment, Ebookers data trends, Triposo-Viator, Dealchecker subs, TripAdvisor Oz
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What Else? Cabforce investment, Ebookers data trends, Triposo-Viator, Dealchecker subs, TripAdvisor Oz
By PhocusWire | March 6, 2012
Cabforce grabbed funding, Ebookers uncovers consumer travel plans, Triposo ties up with Viator, Dealchecker reaches email milestone, TripAdvisor creates in Australia. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More
Adventure specialist uses hack day to bring Kilimanjaro to life
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Adventure specialist uses hack day to bring Kilimanjaro to life
By Linda Fox | March 6, 2012
Travel and technology companies parking the concerns of tight margins for a day spent experimenting with technology usually don't regret it... Read More
TravelLocal sharpens online agency model by only working with local companies
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TravelLocal sharpens online agency model by only working with local companies
By Kevin May | March 6, 2012
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based TravelLocal, an online travel agency to bring travellers and local companies together.... Read More
Things you may not know about Captcha and how the inventor is now translating the web
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Things you may not know about Captcha and how the inventor is now translating the web
By Kevin May | March 5, 2012
Here is Luis von Ahn, one of the creators of online authentication services Captcha and ReCaptcha. A quirky and entertaining kinda guy with clearly an enormous brain.... Read More
Travelport shows off Facebook flight search and booking system prototype
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Travelport shows off Facebook flight search and booking system prototype
By Kevin May | March 5, 2012
It was not long that putting a search tool into a Facebook application was considered something of a landmark issue - but things are moving quickly now.... Read More
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