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How image selection affects click-through rates on OTA hotel listings

By Nick Vivion | August 16, 2012

What images hotels choose to display in their OTA booking paths have significant impact on CTRs, a... Read More

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Google Maps (for Android) integrates schedules for 1 million public transit stops worldwide

By Nick Vivion | August 16, 2012

Those who use Google Maps as their primary tool for navigating the world's many public transit systems... Read More

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Morning Scan: Pizzabons for US airports? AvFinity grows, and the Quantum Sniffer hopes for DOT okay

By Sean O'Neil | August 16, 2012

From scary new fast food possibilities for airport food to exciting new security device contracts,... Read More

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Car service Uber runs into trouble in Boston [UPDATED]

By Sean O'Neil | August 15, 2012

Uber, the US car service users can order via an smart phone app, faces a roadblock as Boston officials... Read More

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36 years later, travel blog reunites kidnapped woman with Colombian family

By Nick Vivion | August 15, 2012

36 years later, with the help of Colombian travel blog See Colombia, a woman kidnapped as a child has... Read More

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Hopper nears launch with additional $12M in funding

By Nick Vivion | August 15, 2012

Travel search startup Hopper has announced an additional $12 million investment round led by OMERS... Read More

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Pilots love Apple iPads, flight-planning apps like ForeFlight, and air-streaming in-flight entertainment

By Sean O'Neil | August 15, 2012

Apple's iPad has created the biggest shift in the way pilots fly airplanes since the birth of the jet... Read More

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Morning Scan: Hotels.com re-ups with EPAM, the WaveRider scramjets, Ikea will build hotels, and more travel tech news

By Sean O'Neil | August 15, 2012

Israel restores its hotel ratings system, 18 hikers get into trouble with their smartphones while... Read More

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Google Now pushes itinerary and travel notifications, and Google Translate translates text in photos

By Sean O'Neil | August 14, 2012

Google recently released upgrades for two of its free products -- Google Translate and Google Now --... Read More

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Vancouver's Opus Hotel aims to remove all landlines and replace them with iPhones

By Nick Vivion | August 14, 2012

First iPads and now iPhones: Vancouver's Opus Hotel is boldly going where no hotel has gone before, as... Read More

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