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Come on travel companies - why are you not investing in tablet applications?

By Glenn Gruber | July 2, 2013

Travel companies are forever claiming how app-savvy they are - and now independent research tells us all that tablets are grabbing a significant share of hotel website traffic. Read More

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Marriott steps (un)squarely into Starwood territory with rebrand and co-creation platform

By Nick Vivion | June 17, 2013

Marriott Hotels, with over 500 properties in nearly 60 countries, has unveiled a full-on rebrand and rethink of its positioning. Read More

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The SCAN - Marriott gets million fans, Google fined for Streetview and more news

By PhocusWire | April 24, 2013

Travel tech news from OneFineStay, Goibibo, RateGain, Marriott Hotels, Mercator, Air Indiam, Unisys, United Airlines, Honeywell, WAYN, Air Asia and Google. Read More

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The Scan: Skyscanner heads to the US, Marriott tests lobby booking, and more travel tech

By Sean O'Neil | February 6, 2013

Skyscanner, PhoCusWright, Marriott, Yatra, OneTwoTrip, WAYN, TripRental, Rover, TUI, TourWrist, Yelp, JetBlue, and American Airlines are mentioned in today's round-up of travel tech news. Read More

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The Scan: Wired magazine and Marriott partner, and more travel tech news

By PhocusWire | September 18, 2012

Four events hosted exclusively at US Marriott hotels through December will focus on the needs of digital travelers, and more items in our roundup. Read More

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The Scan: UK hotels scolded for online rate display, the first use of Facebook's Were Here API, and more

By Sean O'Neil | August 30, 2012

Eleven major hotel chains are routinely breaching British government guidelines and advertising standards rules by not including VAT in headline prices online, and more items in our roundup. Read More

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Another hotel price fixing class action emerges in the US, same defendants as previous complaints

By Kevin May | August 28, 2012

Are we seeing the floodgates beginning to open with the hotel price parity issue? Perhaps so, with news of another attempt at a class action in the US against online travel agencies and hotel chains. Read More

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Hotel price fixing case will likely do little but generate legal fee bonanza

By Viewpoints | August 22, 2012

A class action suit was filed this week in California against various major online travel retailers and hotel chains alleging antitrust violations in relation to resale price management (RPM)... Read More

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Hotel price fixing saga switches to the US with class action against Expedia and others

By Kevin May | August 21, 2012

There is a whiff of anger in the air, it appears, over alleged price fixing between online travel agencies and hotels - with a class action being brought against some of the biggest travel brands on the... Read More

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Morning Scan: Billing giant Kale rebrands as Accelya and other travel tech news

By Sean O'Neil | August 13, 2012

Kale Consultants is re-branding itself as Accelya. The combined operation will handle accounting and billing between travel agents and airlines for more than 100 airlines and earn $110 million a year in... Read More

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Behold the tech-savvy, young and affluent Chinese traveller, coming to a country near you

By Viewpoints | July 1, 2012

In fifteen years, the Chinese middle class will reach 800 million, up from 300 million today. Over the next five years, affluent Chinese consumers will grow from four million to 20 million. Read More

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Which was the only company to apply for a .FLY domain?

By Kevin May | June 15, 2012

With lots of talk in recent months about a bonanza of new domain name extensions being made available to anyone, perhaps more than one company would've bid for .FLY this week. Read More

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Google Hotel Finder -- OTA advertisers commandeer hotel pages

By Dennis Schaal | June 1, 2012

An advertising experiment in Google Hotel Finder enables Google and online travel agencies to blatantly and misleadingly cash in on hotels' intellectual property. Read More

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Booking.com moves up rankings, nestles in with stalwarts - Top US travel sites, April 7 2012

By PhocusWire | April 11, 2012

Priceline-owned Booking.com is beginning to feature heavily in the list of top travel websites in the US and is now sitting alongside the likes of Hotels.com and Marriott. Read More

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Trust International weeks away from unlocking Room Key for members

By Linda Fox | March 8, 2012

Hospitality resevation and distribution specialist Trust International is two weeks away from connecting to Room Key, the online hotel venture started by a number of hotel chains in January Read More

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