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Ctrip's latest partnership and investment: China Eastern Airlines

By Martin Cowen | April 21, 2016

China's biggest-by-far OTA Ctrip has announced an RMB 3 billion ($460 million) investment in China... Read More

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Uber and Lyft continue to overshadow taxis and rentals in business travel

By Linda Fox | April 21, 2016

Certify produces a quarterly report on business travel spending trends and in recent months has... Read More

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Australian TV show The Checkout satirizes OTA booking fees [VIDEO]

By Sean O'Neil | April 20, 2016

After Mary and Joseph fail to find an inn for the night in Bethlehem, the soon-to-be-parents-of-Jesus... Read More

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Cabify raises $120 million, plots further Latin America expansion

By Linda Fox | April 20, 2016

Cabify has closed an eyebrow-raising $120m investment round, led by Japan-based ecommerce company... Read More

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Move along tourists as Airbnb campaigns for the local experience

By Linda Fox | April 20, 2016

Airbnb says personalisation is at the heart of its updated mobile application launched this week... Read More

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Ixigo upgrades cab meta with crazy tech

By Martin Cowen | April 20, 2016

The latest innovation from India's travel search platform Ixigo enables users of its taxi cab meta... Read More

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Vacation rental tech startup Lodgify lands $1.6 million round

By Sean O'Neil | April 20, 2016

Lodgify, a vacation rental software startup, said today that it had raised Euro 1.4 million in a... Read More

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Turo, the peer-based car rental site, expands to Canada

By Sean O'Neil | April 20, 2016

Turo, a US-based platform to let car owners earn money from their vehicles when they’re idle, is... Read More

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Sabre counters Lufthansa suit, saying Farelogix and Travelfusion are GDSs

By Sean O'Neil | April 19, 2016

In a court filing, Sabre denied all wrongdoing alleged by Lufthansa Group in a suit that the airline... Read More

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Relux, a Japanese booking site, nabs $4.5 million in funding

By Sean O'Neil | April 18, 2016

Loco Partners, a Tokyo-based startup that runs Relux, a membership-based accommodation booking site,... Read More

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