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HotelQuickly rebrands, Touristly thinks BIG, TripAdvisor launches Arabic service, and more...
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HotelQuickly rebrands, Touristly thinks BIG, TripAdvisor launches Arabic service, and more...
By PhocusWire | March 31, 2016
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for March 2016. Thursday 31 March 2016: HotelQuickly rebrands for third birthday The last-... Read More
Microsoft wants you to use Skype to book hotels and other travel
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Microsoft wants you to use Skype to book hotels and other travel
By Sean O'Neil | March 30, 2016
Microsoft is adding its Cortana virtual assistant to Skype, which means the booking of hotels and other travel (and other services) will become possible within the instant-messaging platform. Starw... Read More
SITA new CEO, Navis heads to LATAM, Viator adds an APAC leader, and more...
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SITA new CEO, Navis heads to LATAM, Viator adds an APAC leader, and more...
By PhocusWire | March 30, 2016
This is a roundup of news and announcements for PEOPLE moves in travel, tourism and hospitality for March 2016: Wednesday 30 March 2016: SITA names new CEO Barbara Dalibard will replace curr... Read More
Booking.com's BookingSuite chief talks RateManager and hotel strategy
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Booking.com's BookingSuite chief talks RateManager and hotel strategy
By Sean O'Neil | March 30, 2016
A core strategy of Booking.com, the Priceline Group-owned reservations giant, is to expand into other services that hotel and vacation rental owners need to run their businesses. BookingSuite, its mai... Read More
Travellers start picking brands based on mobile services
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Travellers start picking brands based on mobile services
By Kevin May | March 30, 2016
A study has found that one in five travellers would always pick a travel brand over another if it meant they could have a better mobile experience. The analysis by Apteligent, carried out by way of... Read More
Adara debuts traveler value scores to help marketers size up customers
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Adara debuts traveler value scores to help marketers size up customers
By Sean O'Neil | March 30, 2016
Adara, the marketing data provider, has come up with a "traveler value score" that estimates an anonymized customer’s capacity to spend on travel. A frequent business traveler might have a score of... Read More
Search words that work in travel
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Search words that work in travel
By Kevin May | March 30, 2016
Bing Ads recently did a major exercise to understand more about what search terms are the most effective for different elements of the travel industry. The study was carried out by the Microsoft-ow... Read More
Social Tables survey of meeting planners and properties reveals best practices
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Social Tables survey of meeting planners and properties reveals best practices
By Sean O'Neil | March 30, 2016
There have been almost no research-backed reports on how hotels can increase their revenue from booking more meetings and improving their site visits. So the industry has been under-informed about... Read More
Asia's budget hotel aggregators spread their wings
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Asia's budget hotel aggregators spread their wings
By Martin Cowen | March 29, 2016
Asia's established budget hotel aggregators continue to expand at the same time as new investors pump cash into the sector. India's Vista Rooms is less than a year-old, which might be stretching th... Read More
KLM robot successfully guides passengers around airport
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KLM robot successfully guides passengers around airport
By Kevin May | March 29, 2016
KLM says robotics will play as "increasingly important role in aviation", following a trial at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The airline started a project to introduce robots to help with gr... Read More
Visa eyes bigger picture with US China Tourism Year tie-up
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Visa eyes bigger picture with US China Tourism Year tie-up
By Martin Cowen | March 29, 2016
Global payments giant Visa has become part of the 2016 US China Tourism Year and hopes by working with the Chinese state-run tourism bodies it can get closer to the "electronic payments infrastructure... Read More
Booking.com app blamed for widespread Apple device crash
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Booking.com app blamed for widespread Apple device crash
By Kevin May | March 29, 2016
Booking.com has found itself at the centre of a major system bug affecting some users of iPhones and iPads. The problem first surfaced late last week when many users started complaining online abou... Read More
HotelPlanner acquires Hotel Hotline, pushes ticket-plus-hotel packages
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HotelPlanner acquires Hotel Hotline, pushes ticket-plus-hotel packages
By Sean O'Neil | March 29, 2016
HotelPlanner, which specializes in group travel for meetings, sporting events and weddings, will acquire Hotel Hotline, a booking site that says it has served more than 1 million customers since its f... Read More
Jumio files for bankruptcy and plans to sell to Facebook cofounder
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Jumio files for bankruptcy and plans to sell to Facebook cofounder
By Sean O'Neil | March 28, 2016
Jumio, which provides identity-verification services to travel companies and other vendors, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The Palo Alto-based mobile credentials technology business will cont... Read More
Hopper raises $16 million (CAN) and reports flights app strength
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Hopper raises $16 million (CAN) and reports flights app strength
By Sean O'Neil | March 28, 2016
Travel search startup Hopper has raised $16 million (CAN), in an investment round led by BDC Capital IT Venture Fund. Past investors OMERS Ventures, an investment arm of one of Canada’s largest pen... Read More
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