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Open pricing and the future of revenue management

By Viewpoints | October 6, 2014

While hotel industry revenues continue to rise, commissions paid to third parties are growing twice as fast. Furthermore, companies like Priceline are worth many times more than the largest hotel b... Read More

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Fed up with Big Data? Blame the socialists

By PhocusWire | October 6, 2014

SYSTEMS: Modern computer nerds (especially those from Silicon Valley) can't take credit for every trend in technology, not least Big Data. In travel, for example, some argue that the original Big Da... Read More

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TripAdvisor reveals how users interact with restaurants online

By Kevin May | October 6, 2014

Such is TripAdvisor's increasing focus on restaurants that it is now making a big effort to evangelise about the impact of reviews on diners. The push comes four months after TripAdvisor bought res... Read More

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Chinese car rental web brand eHi files for IPO in the US

By Martin Cowen | October 6, 2014

Chinese car rental business eHi Car Services, in which Ctrip is the largest investor, has filed for an IPO in New York. Ctrip, which owns 23% of eHi, is also its "designated and preferred business... Read More

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Beam me up to the moon... via a space elevator

By PhocusWire | October 5, 2014

SYSTEMS: Every so often you get "what on earth?" bit of future technology-type news. Except this latest effort from a Japanese company is beyond earth... literally. Forget Richard Branson and his "s... Read More

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The slowly evolving Airbnb - is it a distribution or hospitality company?

By Viewpoints | October 3, 2014

In the latter half of 2013, Airbnb began making more direct comparisons between itself and the hotel industry. Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief technology officer, told the Telegraph in Nov... Read More

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Fate of TUI web brands still unknown, but details emerge of financial performance

By Martin Cowen | October 3, 2014

Mystery remains as to the long term future of TUI Travel's AsiaRooms and Malapronta consumer websites, but they are still in the red. A post-close trading update this week offered no insight into t... Read More

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How do travellers engage with different types of images?

By Martin Cowen | October 3, 2014

Travellers like to see their hotel room before booking, so it makes sense that they might like to see what their mode of transport looks like too. That was the thinking behind Rome2Rio's introducti... Read More

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As screen sizes increase, mobile becomes the first stop for business travelers seeking certainty

By Nick Vivion | October 2, 2014

With the rollout of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the Apple ecosystem now matches most Android phones as far as screen size. As more consumers tote phablets (phone/tablets), travel companies are now abl... Read More

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What might a new approach by Google to the hotel industry look like?

By Viewpoints | October 2, 2014

Consider this: Google has invested in flight information provider ITA Software and hotel metasearch engine Room77. NB: This is an opinion by Richard Vaughton, director at DiscoveryHolidayHomes. It... Read More

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One click travel by 2020 via devices not even invented

By Linda Fox | October 2, 2014

The year 2020 doesn't seem that far away so findings in a Switchfly study on future travel trends make for an interesting read in terms of people's expectations. In its quarterly trends report the... Read More

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Expedia bid for Wotif takeover back on track

By Martin Cowen | October 2, 2014

Panic over - an Australian regulator has decided that Expedia Inc's proposed takeover of wotif.com won't damage competition after all. Early in September the Australian Competition and Consumer Com... Read More

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Startup Pitch: Sépage sees semantic as the answer

By Martin Cowen | October 2, 2014

Milan Stankovic was frustrated that the semantic web was failing to break free from academia. Disparaging remarks from a Google director about the potential of the semantic web in the mainstream promp... Read More

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Startup pitch: TourDigger is a new tours-and-activities marketplace

By Sean O'Neil | October 1, 2014

New Ottawa-based startup Tourdigger.com, a B2C aggregator of tours and activities in about a thousand cities worldwide, is off to a strong start. Since its July 2013 launch, 752 tour operators have... Read More

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Big Data is not the Messiah coming to save travel personalisation

By Viewpoints | October 1, 2014

Over the last year I’ve exposed myself to a lot of Big Data blogs, articles, conferences, webinars, technologies, chats over beers, and industry investments. Enthralling stuff to read about the pot... Read More

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