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Lawmakers and tech align as taxi apps prepare for Rio 2016

By Viewpoints | August 5, 2016

A few weeks ago Brazil's Municipal Transportation Secretary gave the go-ahead for three approved and selected on-demand transportation apps to legally conduct their operations in the city of Rio de Ja... Read More

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French duo secure funding for eco-friendly app-bookable Seine taxi service

By Juliana Shallcross | August 5, 2016

SeaBubbles, a flying water taxi concept developed by two French entrepreneurs, has raised half a million euros and is now eying a partnership with Uber. The vehicle is a battery-powered oval-shaped... Read More

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Cruise.co.uk docks with new private equity owner in £52 million deal

By Kevin May | August 5, 2016

Cruise.co.uk has a new backer in the form of Bridgepoint Development Capital, after three years with fellow private equity company Risk Capital. The switch of the majority stake in the UK-based cru... Read More

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Defining moment for advocate and influencer marketing

By Martin Cowen | August 5, 2016

UK digital agency Qube Media has prepared a detailed report into the theory and practice of influencer and advocate marketing, two buzzwords which have come to the fore over the past couple of years.... Read More

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Priceline heralds Booking.com's one million reservations in a single day

By Juliana Shallcross | August 4, 2016

The Priceline Group's second-quarter results beat expectations, despite recent terrorist attacks and political instability in Europe, as well as competition from major hotel chains and their direct bo... Read More

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Travelport sees revenue climb, highlights OTA benefits and ancillary evolution

By Kevin May | August 4, 2016

Travelport has seen its overall revenue increase by 9% in the second quarter of 2016, with overall growth for the year so far at 8%. The travel technology company hit $606 million in revenue for th... Read More

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The state of online travel agency bookings in charts

By Kevin May | August 4, 2016

Whilst bots and other future-tech items get many of the headlines in 2016, there is undoubtedly a war of words out there between the intermediaries and hotels. The latest salvo (coming the same day... Read More

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Google goes guerilla with Rio content site - no Olympic Rings to be seen

By Marisa Garcia | August 4, 2016

Google's in-house creative agency The Zoo has added new features to its "All of Brazil Plays" to coincide with a significant global sporting event taking place in Rio de Janeiro over the next few week... Read More

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Be afraid - TripAdvisor is playing the long game with Instant Booking

By Martin Cowen | August 4, 2016

TripAdvisor's second-quarter results highlight how it plans to improve its Instant Booking product now that the global roll-out is complete and more than half a million properties can be booked this w... Read More

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Direct now cheaper than agencies for majority of hotel searches

By Kevin May | August 4, 2016

Maybe the regulatory restrictions are starting to get through, or something else - data-crunching has shown that 53% of rates are now cheaper on hotel websites than intermediaries. Checks on over 2... Read More

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Skyscanner brings travel search bot to Skype group chats

By Kevin May | August 3, 2016

Travel search service Skyscanner has created what is one of the first bot-type search tools for mass-market messaging platform Skype. The Microsoft-owned platform has worked with Skyscanner, initia... Read More

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Adobe finds more evidence desktop dominates US travel booking despite mobile growth

By Juliana Shallcross | August 3, 2016

A new study from Adobe shows that the scale of mobile travel search growth over the past few years is not reflected by a similar increase in bookings. The Adobe Mobile Travel Report, released today... Read More

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Icelandair and Travelaer build airline industry's first Facebook Messenger booking bot

By Marisa Garcia | August 3, 2016

Travelaer has linked up with Icelandair to develop the airline industry's first search and booking Facebook Messenger bot. The conversational interface encourages flyers to search for the flights w... Read More

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Pokémon Go activity becomes another way to search for accommodation

By Kevin May | August 3, 2016

It was only a question of time before a travel search service started allowing users to find accommodation based on a property's proximity to Pokémon Go activity. The mobile gaming app's extraordin... Read More

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Startup pitch: Tripshelf's package holiday meta for India has $250K to get going

By Martin Cowen | August 2, 2016

Metasearch or price comparison sites have come a long way since the early days of Kayak, Travelsupermarket, Trivago and the other early adopters. The suppliers' relationship with the price comparis... Read More

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