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OYO Rooms captures more funding - this time it's $100 million

By Kevin May | April 14, 2016

The backing for India-based OYO Rooms continues, with the branded hotel booking site luring in a further $100 million in funding. The company has yet to officially confirm the deal, but it is under... Read More

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Understanding the science behind Expedia's marketplace

By Sponsored Content | April 14, 2016

For nearly as long as commerce has existed, consumers have gone to a marketplace to get the right product at the right price. NB: This is a viewpoint by Melissa Maher, senior vice president of the... Read More

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CWT crunches flight data to help understand booking behaviour

By Linda Fox | April 14, 2016

Carlson Wagonlit Travel has been looking at its flight data to uncover patterns, identify segments and assess the financial impact of behaviour. By looking at more than six million air transactions... Read More

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Farelogix and Routehappy will integrate their platforms for airlines

By Sean O'Neil | April 14, 2016

Later this year, Farelogix will integrate FLX Merchandise, a tool airlines use to create dynamic offers, with the Routehappy Hub content management tool built by Routehappy, the companies said today.... Read More

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Vacasa raises $35 million to expand rental platform

By Kevin May | April 14, 2016

Unperturbed by consolidation and moves by the big players in travel, investors have thrown a sizeable chunk of money ($35 million) at vacation rental brand Vacasa. The Series A round was led by Lev... Read More

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Expedia, Millennials and the pattern recognition business

By Linda Fox | April 13, 2016

Expedia has conducted research into the behaviour of Millennials when searching and booking travel. It's not ground-breaking, but more of an affirmation of some of the trends out there on the attit... Read More

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Airbnb acquires a team of blockchain techies

By Sean O'Neil | April 13, 2016

Home rental giant Airbnb has acquired several top employees of ChangeCoin, a startup that created a micro-payments platform based on blockchain technology. The news was first reported by Quartz and... Read More

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Three steps for airlines to enhance yield management with personalized offers

By Viewpoints | April 13, 2016

Yield management refers to an airline's effort to effectively manage supply and demand mismatches using scientific pricing strategies. It's a practice that can be fine-tuned with the help of personali... Read More

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Liligo goes down the multi-modal route

By Linda Fox | April 13, 2016

Liligo has added a range of transport options to its existing flight search and comparison service. The France-based service, which is part of eDreams Odigeo, says that multi-modal was a logical ex... Read More

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Rentivo turns down institutional investment offers, opts for crowd-funded backing

By Kevin May | April 13, 2016

Vacation rental technology provider Rentivo reckons it will snub the money people and secure funding from its customer base. The company says it has opted for the crowd-funded approach in a bid to... Read More

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Expedia turns back the clock for London visitors

By Kevin May | April 13, 2016

Expedia has switched to the UK capital of London in a bid to add more bells and whistles to its destination pages. Historic London is a microsite available from the Expedia UK website which combine... Read More

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Amtrak works to boost its wifi speeds, but faces delays

By Sean O'Neil | April 12, 2016

Amtrak says it has expanded the coverage of its cellular-based wifi service on several more long-distance trains, which means that 90%, or 28 million, of its customers now ride trains with wifi. (It's... Read More

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For any travel query, Facebook Messenger thinks there's a bot for that

By Sean O'Neil | April 12, 2016

Today at Facebook's annual global developer conference in San Francisco, the company gave outside developers coding tools and tips on how to build chatbots, or text-based interactive services, for the... Read More

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Time Out buys HallStreet travel startup in acqui-hire move

By Kevin May | April 12, 2016

Destination guide publisher Time Out has acquired events marketplace startup HallStreet - and promptly shut it down. Terms of the sale have not been disclosed. Co-founders of HallStreet, Alfredo... Read More

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Startup pitch: Triporia brings what you need to book hotels to one page

By Linda Fox | April 12, 2016

Triporia is a UK-based hotel comparison site that thinks of itself as an Excel sheet for hotel rates. The idea is to provide rates to consumers quickly, enabling them to get a picture of the location... Read More

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