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Airbnb finding favour with German and Spanish travellers [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Martin Cowen | January 8, 2016

A snapshot of travel booking habits across Europe, carried out by marketing tech firm Rocket Fuel, has a few eyebrow-raising findings, specifically around the popularity of Airbnb. It said that "Tr... Read More

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Crack the code of ethical travel by using social data

By Kevin May | January 8, 2016

Technology and the ability to mine data and social behaviour will be at the heart of attempts by companies to reach the caring hearts of so-called ethical travellers. Amadeus has been examining the w... Read More

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As Apple and others get emotional, where might travel fit in?

By Linda Fox | January 8, 2016

There's lots of coverage across mainstream and technology press in the past few hours about Apple buying a company called Emotient. Most of what Apple does generally gains column inches but this on... Read More

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CES 2016: These three new cameras may wow travel marketers

By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2016

Among the many new cameras that were previewed at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a select few may appeal to marketers eager for fresh tools for influencing traveler purchase... Read More

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US class action lawyers add to Qunar's woes

By Martin Cowen | January 7, 2016

Qunar's management shake-up announced this week, which coincided with a 16% drop in its share price on the day, has caught the attention of a New York-based "corporate litigation boutique" law firm.... Read More

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Skyscanner adds white-label car rental search, Mundi is first taker

By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2016

Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based metasearch giant, has begun to offer a white-labeled version of its car rental search product through its trade division, Skyscanner for Business. The search tool co... Read More

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Holidu raises $6 million to push its vacation rental search

By Kevin May | January 7, 2016

The investment keeps on coming into the vacation rental search engines - this time it's Holidu with a $6 million (Euro 5 million) Series A. The Germany-based startup, which launched in 2014, has se... Read More

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Ctrip invests $180 million in MakeMyTrip [UPDATED]

By Martin Cowen | January 7, 2016

China's biggest OTA Ctrip is investing US$180 million in MakeMyTrip, India's biggest OTA. Part of the deal, when approved, sees Ctrip getting a place on the MakeMyTrip board. Ctrip has also been g... Read More

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Big data: from an investment decision to business as usual

By Sponsored Content | January 7, 2016

The success of the Hotels.com online booking platform is based on the power of data being harnessed every step of the way. NB: This is a viewpoint by Thierry Bedos (pictured above), chief technolog... Read More

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Behold the wacky cruise ship/hotel of the future

By Kevin May | January 7, 2016

Architect and engineer, Gianluca Santosuosso, has come up with one of the more intriguing concepts on the future of the hotel and cruise sector. Rather than following the path that most cruise oper... Read More

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Our shrinking world, illustrated with travel data

By Kevin May | January 7, 2016

Ever heard of an "isochronic map"? Nope, neither had we until this bit of number-crunching from Rome2Rio came our way. The multi-modal travel search engine has worked out how long it takes a travel... Read More

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Startup pitch: MaxMilhas, a miles broker, ascends in Brazil

By Sean O'Neil | January 6, 2016

MaxMilhas is a Brazilian marketplace for brokering the buying and selling of frequent flier miles. Since it began two years ago this month, more than 70,000 airline tickets have been purchased thro... Read More

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Going on safari? There's now virtual reality for that

By Kevin May | January 6, 2016

After years in the doldrums (well, nobody really caring), virtual reality could very well be The Thing in 2016. Various devices (from the expensive to the simple Google Cardboard) have come on the... Read More

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Booking.com wants to capture consumer resolutions

By Kevin May | January 6, 2016

If the turn of the New Year is all about marketing destinations to wannabe travellers, then the industry should always expect some quirky ideas to come forward. Step up, Booking.com, which today un... Read More

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Qyer picks up $60 million

By Martin Cowen | January 6, 2016

Chinese outbound specialist and travel community Qyer.com has secured $60 million in funding, with Alibaba's investment arm contributing to the Series D round. Alibaba led Qyer's $10 million Series... Read More

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