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Startup pitch: Flio, a global airport app, is Uhrenbacher's return bid for more glory
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Startup pitch: Flio, a global airport app, is Uhrenbacher's return bid for more glory
By Sean O'Neil | September 27, 2015
Flio aims to become the first global airport app, aggregating airport information and giving travellers exclusive airport retail offers. It thinks its killer feature will be instant, one-click acce... Read More
Lufthansa blames GDS booking volume drop mostly on pilot strike
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Lufthansa blames GDS booking volume drop mostly on pilot strike
By Kevin May | September 25, 2015
Lufthansa has hit back at GDS bookings figures revealed by Tnooz yesterday as being "heavily influenced" by industrial action affecting the airline. Pilots belonging to the carrier held their 13th... Read More
What a hotel's guest is expecting could happen by 2030 [INFOGRAPHIC]
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What a hotel's guest is expecting could happen by 2030 [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | September 25, 2015
Marriott Rewards and US banking giant Chase surveyed travellers earlier this year to find out what they anticipate will happen in the future. The study was conducted with over 1,000 adult traveller... Read More
Phoenix from the ash cloud (or how KLM formulated its social media strategy)
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Phoenix from the ash cloud (or how KLM formulated its social media strategy)
By Linda Fox | September 25, 2015
Think about airlines on social media and KLM usually comes top of mind for its tweets (not always scoring high), quirky campaigns and other initiatives on the various channels. The airline has take... Read More
What metasearch sites adopting instant booking for hotels really means
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What metasearch sites adopting instant booking for hotels really means
By Viewpoints | September 24, 2015
Instant booking on metasearch sites is nothing totally new, but is becoming quite a big thing, with Google having recently doubled down on it. If metasearch is leading to increases in conversion ra... Read More
US airline websites's direct traffic, ranked, for August 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
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US airline websites's direct traffic, ranked, for August 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sean O'Neil | September 24, 2015
Airlines are oibileore eager than ever to guide travelers to their own branded websites for booking tickets. Direct bookings spare airlines from having to pay commissions to third-parties. Plus, by... Read More
Lufthansa takes GDS booking tumble with new surcharge, rival carriers benefit
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Lufthansa takes GDS booking tumble with new surcharge, rival carriers benefit
By Kevin May | September 24, 2015
German carrier Lufthansa is beginning to see the impact of its decision to impose a levy on all bookings made through Global Distribution Systems. A highly confidential document obtained by Tnooz f... Read More
Expedia's PartnerCentral App is its first B2B hotelier-facing mobile app
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Expedia's PartnerCentral App is its first B2B hotelier-facing mobile app
By Sean O'Neil | September 24, 2015
Since August Expedia Inc has been pushing out its first business-to-business (B2B) mobile app to the Apple and Google Play (Android) stores for hotel customers in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australi... Read More
7 basics for telling an authentic, effective travel brand story
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7 basics for telling an authentic, effective travel brand story
By Pamela Whitby | September 24, 2015
Thirty seconds or less is the average length of time that consumers spend reading or listening to online marketing communications. So if you haven’t caught a prospective customer's attention in tha... Read More
Startup pitch: Qalendra mines B2B travel data to make forecasts
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Startup pitch: Qalendra mines B2B travel data to make forecasts
By Sean O'Neil | September 23, 2015
Qalendra is a travel technology startup based out of Seattle. It mines, fuses, and structures data from many sources to generate long-range predictions and data-driven insights for travel and hospital... Read More
How to profit from the boom in Chinese outbound travel [INFOGRAPHIC]
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How to profit from the boom in Chinese outbound travel [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sean O'Neil | September 23, 2015
No one has better ideas and insights about how to profit from the boom in Chinese outbound travel than the executives who are striving to do it right now. In mid-September, a handful of these execu... Read More
Hotel bookings via GDSs reach record high
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Hotel bookings via GDSs reach record high
By Kevin May | September 23, 2015
Hospitality reservation system provider TravelClick claims the industry is seeing an all-time record use of Global Distribution Systems for booking hotels. In its annual Global Travel Agent GDS stu... Read More
Kayak does a Hipmunk, uses heat map search for hotels
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Kayak does a Hipmunk, uses heat map search for hotels
By Kevin May | September 23, 2015
A long time ago (okay, three years ago), Kayak co-founder and CEO Steve Hafner (in)famously labelled metasearch newbie Hipmunk as "road kill". Attendees at the 2012 Phocuswright Conference in Phoenix... Read More
TripAdvisor and Google make the top three hotel search results even more precious
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TripAdvisor and Google make the top three hotel search results even more precious
By Sean O'Neil | September 23, 2015
In recent months, TripAdvisor and Google have continued to experiment with how they display hotels in their metasearch services for consumers. Their design changes prompt users to pay even more specia... Read More
Turning flight disruption into opportunity (and showing TLC) via technology
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Turning flight disruption into opportunity (and showing TLC) via technology
By Kevin May | September 23, 2015
There are delicate balances to be had all around the travel industry, especially when it comes to dealing with customers. But no more so than when flights are delayed or cancelled and passengers ar... Read More
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