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Plateno opens platform to European hotels wanting access to China outbound

By Martin Cowen | September 21, 2016

Chinese hotel group Plateno is helping European hotels access Chinese outbound travellers through its... Read More

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Startup pitch: Sonder raises $10 million for serviced home rentals

By Sean O'Neil | September 20, 2016

Short-term rentals are more interesting than cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms. But the service quality... Read More

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Ancillary revenue study features GDS agreements

By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016

The CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorks Company has been released in full and includes,... Read More

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The Standard becomes another hotel group offering an OTA-like marketplace

By Sean O'Neil | September 20, 2016

It was a year ago that AccorHotels began selling independent hotels alongside its own properties on... Read More

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Taxi app funding back in business with Grab grabbing $750 million

By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016

Southeast Asia's ride-hailing platform Grab has completed the region's largest ever consumer tech... Read More

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Google debuts Trips, a mobile app to plan travel itineraries faster

By Sean O'Neil | September 19, 2016

Today Google launches its first all-in-one travel app, Google Trips. The free app aims to be a... Read More

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Restaurants eating up CPC budgets

By Martin Cowen | September 16, 2016

SimilarWeb has found that the most-expensive desktop keyword in travel is "restaurants near me",... Read More

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Startup pitch: Tripcon offers natural-language metasearch, Tokyo-style

By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2016

Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices... Read More

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Travelport updates how it describes its growth strategies

By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2016

Travelport, which went public in 2014, said on Thursday in a financial filing in the US that one of... Read More

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Indian travellers getting younger, more spontaneous

By Martin Cowen | September 15, 2016

MakeMyTrip's look at Indian travel patterns says that 18-35-year-olds are "the driving force behind... Read More

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