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New York eyes special hotel occupancy tax on online travel intermediaries

By Dennis Schaal | August 2, 2010

The proposed New York State budget would levy a higher occupancy tax rate on online travel agency websites than hotel websites.... Read More

By PhocusWire | August 2, 2010

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending July 31 2010.... Read More

Stats: Most visible hotel sites in search and Google advertising

By Kevin May | August 2, 2010

Latest release of data from Greenlight Search indicating the top performers in the hotel sector in the UK across natural search and pay-per-click advertising.... Read More

Is Expedia gearing up for acquisitions?

By Dennis Schaal | August 2, 2010

Expedia Inc. may be raising some money with acquisitions in mind.... Read More

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TripAdvisor Business Listings growing, China losses adding up

By Dennis Schaal | August 2, 2010

TripAdvisor's high-margin advertising and media business is on a tear and now accounts for nearly 10% of parent company Expedia Inc.'s revenue.... Read More

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Apple adds suite of new tools to iTravel patent

By Kevin May | August 2, 2010

Apple has filed a new and vast range of functionality to its growing iTravel patent, allowing users to manage hotel services and air travel tools from their iPhones.... Read More

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Directline Holidays quiet on sale rumours, admits KPMG relationship, Thomas Cook on alert?

By Kevin May | August 2, 2010

UK-based online travel agency Directline Holidays moved quickly this morning to dismiss growing speculation that the company is up for a sale giving its founders a multi-million pound windfall.... Read More

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TripAdvisor extends app service to Nokia phones

By Kevin May | August 2, 2010

User review giant TripAdvisor has continued its move to become available on-the-move as well as desktops by launching the service on Nokia handsets.... Read More

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The Week in Travel Tech - Finding travel inspiration, money moves and Facebook

By Kevin May | July 30, 2010

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 25 July to Saturday 31 July 2010:... Read More

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Two different ways to show off a destination on the web

By Kevin May | July 30, 2010

There is always pressure on the reams of travel content sites on the web to find new ways of keeping visitors interested, but thankfully new methods come along almost constantly.... Read More

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TLabs Showcase - Wanderfly

By Kevin May | July 30, 2010

TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring New York, US-based trip planning and content site Wanderfly.... Read More

When Napoleon met an astronaut to discuss airline split ticketing

By Kevin May | July 30, 2010

Yes, you read that correctly. A rather strange video clip courtesy of Everbread using the XTraNormal text-to-movie maker system.... Read More

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Hotelicopter creates hotel affiliate network, switches business model

By Kevin May | July 30, 2010

Hotel metasearch site Hotelicopter is launching a new system aimed at tourist boards and online publishers so they can feature and search hotel availability.... Read More

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Yapta partners with Booking.com to supplement Orbitz hotel search

By Dennis Schaal | July 30, 2010

Yapta turned to Priceline's Booking.com to plug holes in hotel-search data from Orbitz, particularly in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.... Read More

By PhocusWire | July 30, 2010

Most popular travel websites in Singapore for the week ending July 24 2010.... Read More

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