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Startup pitch: bd4travel wants to get travel companies closer to customers
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Startup pitch: bd4travel wants to get travel companies closer to customers
By Linda Fox | August 25, 2015
Bd4travel was founded about two years ago after the three founders, who had worked together at Traveltainment, joined forces to address the potential for big data in the travel industry. The trio,... Read More
Faster wifi at 39,000ft is due soon in the US, after watchdogs give OK
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Faster wifi at 39,000ft is due soon in the US, after watchdogs give OK
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Inflight wifi speeds are about to see a step-change spike because Gogo Inflight, a leading airline internet provider in the US, has received final-stage Federal Aviation Administration approval for be... Read More
Think with Google debuts a travel dashboard to help US marketers
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Think with Google debuts a travel dashboard to help US marketers
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Today Google's marketing research arm, Think with Google, unveiled its Travel Dashboard -- a free online tool that highlights recent and year-over-year trends based on Google data across the car renta... Read More
Turning vacation pics into GIFs, Booking.com lunges for marketing gold
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Turning vacation pics into GIFs, Booking.com lunges for marketing gold
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Booking.com, the hotel reservation giant owned by Priceline Group, has come up with a clever marketing campaign that helps users transform their vacation shots into GIFs, or animated, looping short vi... Read More
This Air France ad is the top travel brand video of 2015, so far, says Google
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This Air France ad is the top travel brand video of 2015, so far, says Google
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
Congratulations (or, we should say, félicitations ) to Air France for having created an advertisement that has been more popular than any other video from any other travel company so far in 2015, acco... Read More
Airbnb's pricing algorithm and Aerosolve, its open-source machine learning tool
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Airbnb's pricing algorithm and Aerosolve, its open-source machine learning tool
By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2015
A little machine learning can have a big impact. Dan Hill, product lead at Airbnb, wrote the company's pricing algorithm after the British-based rival startup he cofounded, Crashpadder, was acquire... Read More
Thomson keeps "data breach" details to itself
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Thomson keeps "data breach" details to itself
By Martin Cowen | August 24, 2015
Thomson is the latest travel firm to have a data breach reported in the mainstream UK press, although details are thin on the ground. This shows that data breaches are now a consumer news story rat... Read More
Personalization, retailing, and the traveler data problem
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Personalization, retailing, and the traveler data problem
By Viewpoints | August 24, 2015
Airlines that provide a fully personalized experience to their customers throughout the entire traveler’s journey will create a differentiated offering in a generic marketplace. NB This is a guest... Read More
Middle East Airlines and Travelport, Sabre gets Air Seychelles, fare family get-together for Amadeus and LH Group, and more...
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Middle East Airlines and Travelport, Sabre gets Air Seychelles, fare family get-together for Amadeus and LH Group, and more...
By PhocusWire | August 24, 2015
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for August 2015: Monday 24 August 2015: Middle East Airlines gets rich with Travelport... Read More
Airbnb and the case of the disgruntled super-host
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Airbnb and the case of the disgruntled super-host
By Kevin May | August 21, 2015
In true sharing economy style, angry former hosts are turning to the web to share their grievances with Airbnb. In a Medium post by Kelly Kampen, a Bangkok, Thailand-based software developer and bu... Read More
Back to basics - ten tips for travel search marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Back to basics - ten tips for travel search marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | August 21, 2015
Okay, so we all know that both leisure and business travellers use the web for researching travel plans. And that, therefore, search marketing plays (and still plays, despite the supposed rise of s... Read More
Uber riders in India get free in-car wifi, Airtel payments
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Uber riders in India get free in-car wifi, Airtel payments
By Martin Cowen | August 21, 2015
Uber has signed a multi-layered partnership deal with telecoms giant Bharti Airtel in India. The tie-up is Uber's first concrete operational move in India after it earmarked $1 billion to ramp up i... Read More
Hostelworld enjoys genuine viral video bonanza after ex-boxer Twitter storm
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Hostelworld enjoys genuine viral video bonanza after ex-boxer Twitter storm
By Kevin May | August 21, 2015
Some things are just too good to be true - thus why many people are cynical about marketing and the process it goes through. But here is what sounds like a genuine stroke of good fortune, coupled w... Read More
Melbourne Airport debuts self-service check-in [CORRECTED]
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Melbourne Airport debuts self-service check-in [CORRECTED]
By Sean O'Neil | August 20, 2015
This week Melbourne Airport debuted Terminal 4 for domestic flights. Notably it claims to be the first domestic terminal in Asia Pacific to provide fully automated self-service check-in. CORREC... Read More
Remark Media bets on Vegas.com
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Remark Media bets on Vegas.com
By Sean O'Neil | August 20, 2015
Remark Media, a digital media company focused on millennials and headquartered in Las Vegas, has acquired Vegas.com, the destination website. The public company bought the site from Greenspun, a fa... Read More
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