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TripAdvisor offers attractions content for partners

By Linda Fox | September 14, 2016

TripAdvisor and its tours and activities brand Viator are providing an attractions content tool to hotels and travel companies. The technology enables the travel partners to offer local tours and e... Read More

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SAP-backed Concur acquires Hipmunk, in exit for the metasearch UX pioneer

By Sean O'Neil | September 13, 2016

Concur, the travel-and-expense software company, has acquired Hipmunk, the travel metasearch brand that was one of the early companies to graduate from the now-famous Y Combinator accelerator. The... Read More

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Emirates criticises GDS model, claims a new idea will eventually disrupt it all

By Kevin May | September 13, 2016

Emirates is not particularly known for having a major axe to grind in public against some of its industry partners. Yet the president of Emirates, Tim Clark, is not very happy with the status quo i... Read More

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For big travel firms, the mobile struggle is real

September 13, 2016

The world is now, indisputably, mobile-first. In 2015, the number of smartphone users worldwide surpassed 2.5 billion. NB This is a viewpoint by Travis Katz, co-founder and CEO of Gogobot. In th... Read More

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Sharing UGC gets a thumbs up for luxury hotels

By Linda Fox | September 13, 2016

Luxury hotels are not taking full advantage of user-generated content across their channels says a report. The L2 report says that hotel brands that integrate UGC from Instagram into their accounts... Read More

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Onefinestay boss quits four months after €148 million sale to Accor

By Kevin May | September 13, 2016

Home rental provider Onefinestay has lost its CEO and chairman Greg Marsh - he is quitting the company this week for "new opportunities". The departure of its co-founder comes just four months afte... Read More

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How to handle hotel data, subway map-style [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | September 13, 2016

There is nothing wrong with collecting as much hotel data as you can - it's just how you use and analyse it that requires a robust strategy. For example, hotel data can encompass social media, perf... Read More

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An open letter to Brian Chesky: Airbnb anti-discrimination policy falls short

By Viewpoints | September 12, 2016

Airbnb recently unveiled a report to "fight discrimination and build inclusion", penned by Washington DC public affairs strategist Laura Murphy. I decided to write an open-letter to CEO of Airbnb,... Read More

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Lufthansa distribution goal at least two years away

By Kevin May | September 12, 2016

Lufthansa claims its vision for a radically overhauled new distribution strategy for the group could be in place by 2019. The airline is currently one year into what it says is a step-by-step appro... Read More

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Chinese outbound patterns determined by more than the economy

By Sponsored Content | September 12, 2016

Mobile payment, visas, in-flight wifi and tier three cities are among the many and various factors driving changes in the outbound market from China, according to senior figures from some of the world... Read More

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With retro travel posters, Expedia coaxes travelers to dream of extinct animals

By Sean O'Neil | September 11, 2016

Expedia UK has launched a quirky marketing series called Unknown Tourism -- a series of vintage-style travel posters advertising destinations as if it were decades ago and rare animals were still aliv... Read More

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Mobile app startups: Bitemojo, Companyon, Prava

By PhocusWire | September 9, 2016

This is a regular roundup of some of the latest mobile application startup launches in travel covering everything from trip inspiration and planning to virtual assistants. Bitemojo What doe... Read More

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Datalex' API partnership gets interesting

By Martin Cowen | September 9, 2016

One to file in the "keep an eye on" folder - Google has bought Apigee for $625 million. Apigee is a NASDAQ-listed API management specialist and the purchase release soundbites come from the senior... Read More

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Tesloop offers rideshares in Teslas around Southern California and Las Vegas

By Juliana Shallcross | September 9, 2016

You may not have heard about Tesloop, a Santa Monica-based start-up that can ferry up to five passengers in a Tesla Model X SUV. The company, less-than-a-year-old, is already offering rides between... Read More

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Ctrip's Liang talks M&A, competition, expansion and more

By Sponsored Content | September 9, 2016

As CEO of Ctrip, James Liang is one of the online travel sector's key figures and was the keynote speaker at TravelDaily's recent conference in China. In an interview with TravelDaily's CEO and co-... Read More

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