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Most popular Singapore travel websites - August 7 2010
By PhocusWire | August 11, 2010
Most popular travel websites in Singapore for the week ending August 7 2010.... Read More
Most popular New Zealand travel websites - August 7 2010
By PhocusWire | August 11, 2010
Most popular travel sites in New Zealand for the week ending August 7 2010.... Read More
Frontier, Everbread, Vayant join Open Axis -- ITA Software on the sidelines
By Dennis Schaal | August 11, 2010
Month-old standards body Open Axis Group picked up Frontier Airlines as a full member and air-search vendors Everbread and Vayant Travel Technologies as allied members -- but ITA Software is looking on from the sidelines.... Read More
Thomas Cook on track for launch of online travel agency in October 2010
By Kevin May | August 11, 2010
European tour operator Thomas Cook has not let weak financial results hit its ambitions to launch an online travel agency to challenge the likes of Expedia and Priceline in Europe.... Read More
Ten simple steps to make global travel websites more engaging
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Ten simple steps to make global travel websites more engaging
By Viewpoints | August 11, 2010
Ever wonder what the most popular sites do to keep traffic and grow their business? While the specific formula for success is different for each site, there are some things in common that most popular sites do.... Read More
Net Neutrality: Saintly or sinful for travel startups?
By Glenn Gruber | August 11, 2010
This week Google and Verizon made a joint announcement on their “suggested guidelines” for Net Neutrality.... Read More
TripIt integrates Gmail, Google Apps for automatic confirmation retrieval
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TripIt integrates Gmail, Google Apps for automatic confirmation retrieval
By Dennis Schaal | August 11, 2010
TripIt says it became the first travel company to integrate its services with Gmail and Google Apps email accounts for individual users.... Read More
Most popular France travel websites - August 7 2010
By PhocusWire | August 10, 2010
Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending August 7 2010.... Read More
Ctrip.com: China, Greater China, Greater Asia, then global
By Dennis Schaal | August 10, 2010
Ctrip.com, the Shanghai based travel company, saw its profits rise 48% in the second quarter and it's on the lookout for additional acquisitions.... Read More
Delta Air Lines redesigns homepage, the rest of the site will have to wait
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Delta Air Lines redesigns homepage, the rest of the site will have to wait
By Dennis Schaal | August 10, 2010
Delta Air Lines redesigned the homepage of Delta.com, giving it a much more graphical, cleaner look, and consolidating a lot of booking features in a new user interface.... Read More
Tnooz and Sabre enter into content agreement for AgentStream
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Tnooz and Sabre enter into content agreement for AgentStream
By PhocusWire | August 10, 2010
Tnooz and Sabre Travel Network have agreed to a content partnership where Tnooz articles will appear in AgentStream, Sabre’s online community for travel agents.... Read More
Most popular Canada travel websites - August 7 2010
By PhocusWire | August 10, 2010
Most popular travel websites in Canada for the week ending August 7 2010.... Read More
Priceline extends price guarantee to Name Your Own Price flights
By Dennis Schaal | August 10, 2010
Call it another volley in the online travel agency price-guarantee wars.... Read More
Business travel name-change signifies globalisation of industry and tech issues
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | August 10, 2010
NBTA at its annual convention in Houston this week announced that it is changing its name from the US-focused National Business Travel Association to the more apt GBTA – Global Business Travel Association.... Read More
Concur debuts APIs, web services, new partners for mobile platform
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Concur debuts APIs, web services, new partners for mobile platform
By Dennis Schaal | August 10, 2010
Concur announced that Amtrak, FlightTrack by Mobiata, GateGuru, MetrO by Kinevia, OAG, Open Table and Taxi Magic will provide third-party services to the travel and expense-management company's mobile platform.... Read More