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TripAdvisor opens Windows, Hostelworld on Apple TV, Airbnb gets Personal, TripIt is pals with LoungeBuddy, and more...

By PhocusWire | January 23, 2016

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for January 2016. Friday January 29: TripAdvisor launches cross device Windows 10 app The re... Read More

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Uber and Airbnb's business travel growth eclipsed by HotelTonight

By Martin Cowen | January 22, 2016

The poster children of the so-called sharing economy - Uber and Airbnb - are now mainstream corporate travel suppliers says a detailed report into US business travellers' expense claims by Certify.... Read More

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Web 4.0 is coming - electronic agents will have an answer to everything

By Viewpoints | January 22, 2016

Web 4.0 is the impending state at which all the information converges into a great ball of benevolent self-aware light, and solves every problem from world peace to will Jon Snow be alive in the next... Read More

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The giant digital hotel concierge is here

By Kevin May | January 22, 2016

There is plenty of talk about how many hotels are putting their traditional concierge services on apps and websites. There is an obvious debate to be had around how the human concierge is often the... Read More

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Mind the gap - what consumers want and get from travel sites

By Linda Fox | January 22, 2016

Some interesting findings in this research from reservation and ecommerce system supplier Atcore which looks at customer satisfaction when booking a package holiday with an online travel site. The... Read More

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Airbnb travellers shop for accommodation just like other travellers

By Kevin May | January 21, 2016

Airbnb may have created an aura of sorts around itself, not least because of its extraordinary growth, but a number of myths have also come into play. One common idea is that it has fuelled the eme... Read More

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IBS launches NDC-compliant PSS, signs SunExpress

By Martin Cowen | January 21, 2016

Travel, transportation and logistics technology firm IBS Software has signed up SunExpress for its iFlyRes passenger service system (PSS), which it claims is the first PSS on the market to natively su... Read More

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Obvious personalisation - Big Data to organise travel around the weather

By Kevin May | January 21, 2016

Personalisation (you really can't get away from the word these days) comes in many forms, but sometimes the most simple application of it can potentially provide the biggest rewards. So whilst trav... Read More

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Instant Booking: to list or not to list, that is the question

By Viewpoints | January 21, 2016

Perhaps the biggest dilemma for hotels this year is whether or not to participate in TripAdvisor's Instant Booking. NB This is a viewpoint by Pablo Delgado, CEO of Mirai. On one hand, the first... Read More

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Yatra brings in Travel-Logs for new urban tours brand

By Martin Cowen | January 21, 2016

Indian OTA Yatra.com has acqui-hired tours specialist Travel-Logs and will use it at the basis for a new product range to be known as Metro X. Metro X will be run by Travel-Logs co-founder Dhiresh... Read More

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TravelersBox raises $10 million for post-trip currency swapping

By Kevin May | January 21, 2016

Arbor Ventures has led a $10 million Series A backing into TravelersBox, an offline-to-online service that takes a traveller's used money and changes to a digital currency. Existing investors Pitan... Read More

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How can global OTAs grow in China?

By Viewpoints | January 21, 2016

Ctrip's investment in India's MakeMyTrip could be a sign that China's online travel agents are starting the flex their muscles and build a presence on the global stage, but how does it work the other... Read More

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EasyTaxi identifies growth as its top priority

By Martin Cowen | January 21, 2016

Rocket Internet-backed EasyTaxi handled some 83 million rides across Latin America in 2015 and is planning to expand across the region in 2016. EasyTaxi, which describes itself as an “urban mobilit... Read More

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Alexa is a window on the next wave of travel tech

By Kevin May | January 20, 2016

Conceptual technologies have a tendency to polarise opinion as to their worth, not least with the recent emergence of the Amazon Echo voice recognition system. Lampooned in some quarters as being a... Read More

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This is the hotel robot you're looking for - Relay nabs $15 million investment

By Linda Fox | January 20, 2016

Savioke, the developer of the Relay hotel robot currently rolling around the corridors of properties across the US, has received $15 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital. EDBI, the corp... Read More

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