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Startup pitch: Tripsuit matches travelers with city breaks

By Sean O'Neil | January 15, 2016

Tripsuit aims to help point travelers to long weekend trips at popular destinations, starting with ones in Europe, based on questions you answer about your tastes and personality. The site is in be... Read More

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Mobile more important to travellers than deodorant

By Martin Cowen | January 15, 2016

A comprehensive global study from Egencia and Expedia confirms, as if there were any doubt, that mobile devices are "indispensable" for leisure and business travellers alike. The Expedia/Egencia Mo... Read More

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Destinations establish way of measuring ROI of social media

By Kevin May | January 15, 2016

Destinations are some of the most prolific users of social media in the travel industry - a trend that includes a wide cross section of channels and often backed by hefty levels of marketing spend.... Read More

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Yatra users willing to spend more on trips

By Martin Cowen | January 14, 2016

Indian OTA Yatra.com has released its winter survey which shows that Indian travellers are increasingly willing to spend more on their leisure trips. The study of 10,000 Yatra users found that 30%... Read More

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Paris's travel startup incubator invites foreign entrepreneurs

By Sean O'Neil | January 14, 2016

Now in its third-year, the Welcome City Lab, an incubator dedicated to tourism startups and supported by the City of Paris, has an open call for applications for its next class. For the first time... Read More

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Foursquare raises $45 million, makes CEO changes

By Sean O'Neil | January 14, 2016

Think of Foursquare, and a person playing its check-in game on their phone and trying to be mayor of a local coffeeshops probably springs to mind. But the seven-year-old start-up believes that it c... Read More

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Why you should never consider a travel planning startup

By Viewpoints | January 14, 2016

Having founded WorldMate and Desti (which also swallowed Plnnr), not a week goes by without me being approached by an entrepreneur who has started/is starting/is contemplating a travel startup. NB:... Read More

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Who's taking off and who's on the ground in inflight wifi [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | January 14, 2016

Wifi, preferably fast and free, is what business travellers crave whilst on the road to stay productive and stay in touch with home. Inflight wifi as a service is growing rapidly with data from Rou... Read More

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SavvyMob raises seed round to target millennials

By Linda Fox | January 14, 2016

Last-minute hotel booking service SavvyMob has confirmed seed investment led by Aarin Capital. Angel investors from online funding platform Lets Venture and some of India's businesses also contribu... Read More

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India's hotel receptionists take more bookings than the OTAs

By Martin Cowen | January 13, 2016

Millward Brown research has identified walk-ins as the dominant channel for hotel bookings in India. In fact, more than one in four hotel bookings across India are made this way. In a glass half-fu... Read More

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Hostelbookers rebrand and redesign, Musement tops Apple charts, and more...

By PhocusWire | January 13, 2016

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for January 2016. Thursday 14 January 2016: Hostelbookers rebrands, gets new site The Host... Read More

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Boeing rethinks airplane cabins as wrap-around screens [VIDEO]

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2016

A concept video from the product development team at US planemaker Boeing demonstrates how lighting projections on the walls and bulkheads of airplanes, along with projection TVs, could be used to dis... Read More

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Uber's growth comes with staggering losses

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2016

Uber is losing more money than it’s producing -- and the gap is widening over time, according to financial documents seen by The Information. The transportation network company is seeing strong rev... Read More

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Groups that stay together, pay together

By Sponsored Content | January 13, 2016

This is a special time of year for group travel. As we return to work amidst the post-festive season slump we can escape to thoughts of our next big holiday, reconvene with traveling companions, and b... Read More

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Is travel retailing finally about to take off?

By Kevin May | January 13, 2016

It's been talked about as the Next Big Thing for quite some time now, but many are now saying that 2016 is the year that travel retailing reaches a critical point in its evolution. The idea is that... Read More

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