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Startup pitch: HomeToGo ready to take vacation rental metasearch global
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Startup pitch: HomeToGo ready to take vacation rental metasearch global
By Nick Vivion | July 2, 2015
Today's startup pitch comes to us from Berlin, where HomeToGo operates a metasearch engine for vacation rentals. The startup has just raised Euro 6 million in a Series A funding round from early-st... Read More
Why the heat is rising in the business travel world
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Why the heat is rising in the business travel world
By Pamela Whitby | July 2, 2015
If you’ve ever been stuck on London’s sweltering, airless underground in a heat wave, you will feel the pain of the capital’s commuters this week. NB: This is an analysis by Pamela Whitby, editor o... Read More
Ryanair axes car hire web agreement, Hertz unhappy over GDS distribution
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Ryanair axes car hire web agreement, Hertz unhappy over GDS distribution
By Kevin May | July 2, 2015
Ignition keys at dawn! Ryanair and Hertz have had an almighty falling out - with the car hire giant terminating its web retailing partnership with immediate effect. The European low cost carrier sa... Read More
Imagine a world without the world wide web [VIDEO]
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Imagine a world without the world wide web [VIDEO]
By Kevin May | July 2, 2015
It is 1989. Tim (now Sir) Berners-Lee, whilst working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, has an idea to create something called the world wide web. ...(sorry, former-Mr Vice President)... The wor... Read More
Uber adds seven more cities in India
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Uber adds seven more cities in India
By Martin Cowen | July 1, 2015
Uber has confirmed that it is expanding its operations in India, adding seven new cities to the 11 it already operates in. Its statement said that this is not only "the largest number of new intern... Read More
Rakuten acquires Voyagin, an Asian tours and activities startup
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Rakuten acquires Voyagin, an Asian tours and activities startup
By Sean O'Neil | July 1, 2015
Rakuten Travel, the online agency arm of Japan's e-commerce giant Rakuten, has acquired majority ownership of Voyagin, a consumer-focused tours-and-activities startup headquartered in Singapore. Te... Read More
Amadeus acquires airline hosting firm Navitaire for $830M
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Amadeus acquires airline hosting firm Navitaire for $830M
By Sean O'Neil | July 1, 2015
Amadeus said today it is acquiring Navitaire, a low-cost hosting platform for airlines that is especially popular with low-cost carriers, from its owner, Accenture, for $830 million. Navitaire help... Read More
How the UK differs from the US when engaging with content and booking in travel
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How the UK differs from the US when engaging with content and booking in travel
By Nick Vivion | July 1, 2015
The UK is quite different than the US when it comes to engaging with travel content and making bookings, a recent report from Expedia Media Solutions has found. Tablets continue to grow share in th... Read More
G1G debuts travel insurance metasearch that's global, mobile-first
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G1G debuts travel insurance metasearch that's global, mobile-first
By Sean O'Neil | July 1, 2015
Travel insurance aggregator Go One Global has been around since 1985. But it has just launched its new platform for selling insurance to travelers worldwide at G1G.com. As a global aggregator, G1G... Read More
Apple SIM finally fulfills promise of being the company's best travel feature yet
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Apple SIM finally fulfills promise of being the company's best travel feature yet
By Nick Vivion | July 1, 2015
Beyond the basic portability of the iPhone, there hasn't been an innovation geared towards global travelers — until the Apple SIM came along to offer users the ability to easily switch between differe... Read More
Zozi raises $30M, partly from Richard Branson, for its activities platform
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Zozi raises $30M, partly from Richard Branson, for its activities platform
By Sean O'Neil | July 1, 2015
The pivot worked. That's the conclusion that can be drawn from the decision of investors to pour $30 million into Zozi, a tours-and-activities startup in San Francisco. Signaling confidence, even R... Read More
On-demand performance support tools can shine for hoteliers
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On-demand performance support tools can shine for hoteliers
By Viewpoints | July 1, 2015
Hotels increasingly rely on Software as a Service (SaaS) products as their primary technologies for running sales and catering, operations and revenue management functions. NB: This is an analysis... Read More
Expedia joins Booking.com to scale back on hotel rate parity
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Expedia joins Booking.com to scale back on hotel rate parity
By Kevin May | July 1, 2015
Expedia is to axe clauses relating to rate parity in contracts with all its European hotel customers. In what could be seen as another landmark moment in the ongoing rate parity debate in Europe, E... Read More
Distribution giants start making good on travel intelligence gaps
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Distribution giants start making good on travel intelligence gaps
By Linda Fox | July 1, 2015
Amadeus has unveiled a travel intelligence service to provide the agent community with insight into business growth and potential market opportunities. Central to the Agency Insight service is the... Read More
Sabre closes Abacus deal - CEO Robert Bailey goes as Sabre moves in
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Sabre closes Abacus deal - CEO Robert Bailey goes as Sabre moves in
By Kevin May | July 1, 2015
The $411 million deal by Sabre to take full ownership of Asia-Pacific global distribution system Abacus was officially sealed today. Sabre had a 35% stake in Abacus before the long-awaited agreemen... Read More
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