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Pintrips comes out of beta and pins hopes on crowd-sourced tips
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Pintrips comes out of beta and pins hopes on crowd-sourced tips
By Kevin May | April 16, 2013
Four months on from its initial launch, Pintrips is now fully open and expanding its "pinning" model so that its users can recommend flights to fellow travellers. Read More
Apartum promises order from the chaos of holiday rentals
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Apartum promises order from the chaos of holiday rentals
By Linda Fox | March 22, 2013
With four years experience in the vacation rental sector, the apartum team felt the need for a comparison site to help consumers find available apartments from a range of sources in one place Read More
Why the Priceline plan to buy Kayak should be investigated by regulators
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Why the Priceline plan to buy Kayak should be investigated by regulators
By Viewpoints | March 20, 2013
A UK competition regulator, The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is being kept busy in the travel space right now. Read More
TripAdvisor eyes next move on travel Rubik's Cube: Mobile destination services, tours and activities
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TripAdvisor eyes next move on travel Rubik's Cube: Mobile destination services, tours and activities
By Kevin May | March 20, 2013
Think the big boys in travel are not taking tours and activities seriously? Might need to think again. Read More
Google Flight Search (finally) goes international
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Google Flight Search (finally) goes international
By Kevin May | March 18, 2013
Almost three years on from announcing the acquisition of ITA Software and 18 months after launching a domestic-only service, Google Flight Search is finally heading overseas. Read More
Everbread co-founder swaps travel search to be a government minister - for a while
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Everbread co-founder swaps travel search to be a government minister - for a while
By Kevin May | March 13, 2013
The often topsy turvy world of travel search technology startup Everbread continues - founder and president Assen Vassilev is doing his civic duty and joining the Bulgarian government. Read More
Expedia completes Trivago investment deal
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Expedia completes Trivago investment deal
By Kevin May | March 12, 2013
Ten weeks after giving the folk at Trivago a very nice pre-Christmas present, Expedia has finalised its acquisition of a majority stake in the European hotel search service. Read More
GoEuro attracts heavy hitter funding in $4 million seed round
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GoEuro attracts heavy hitter funding in $4 million seed round
By Linda Fox | March 4, 2013
Multi-modal travel search is gathering pace as GoEuro today announces $4m seed funding led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures Read More
TnoozLIVE next episode: February 28 - trending stories, in-depth analysis, ITB preview
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TnoozLIVE next episode: February 28 - trending stories, in-depth analysis, ITB preview
By Kevin May | February 19, 2013
TnoozLIVE returns for the first of a new series of monthly outings for 2013 - as we debate the hot stories of the moment, look ahead at the coming weeks and more. Read More
HolidayIQ travel community and review service secures investment round, de-merges from Wego
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HolidayIQ travel community and review service secures investment round, de-merges from Wego
By Kevin May | February 7, 2013
Just two years and four months after uniting with metasearch engine Wego, Indian content site HolidayIQ has split from its sister brand and raised its own funding round. Read More
Travel industry should go back to its innovative digital roots, act like Amazon and Apple instead
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Travel industry should go back to its innovative digital roots, act like Amazon and Apple instead
By Viewpoints | February 4, 2013
Travel was the engine that drove the first wave of ecommerce. Travel made ecommerce a star, as the online travel landscape - and far beyond - was transformed. Read More
Meta search rules: SeatGuru relaunches with flight planning tools, revamped look
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Meta search rules: SeatGuru relaunches with flight planning tools, revamped look
By Nick Vivion | January 22, 2013
Following along from TripAdvisor's hotel meta search launch, TripAdvisor subsidiary SeatGuru has relaunched their website with a revamped look and flight planning tools. Read More
TripAdvisor tests hotel metasearch service - now the fun really begins
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TripAdvisor tests hotel metasearch service - now the fun really begins
By Kevin May | January 15, 2013
User review giant TripAdvisor is finally doing what pretty much everyone involved in the hotel sector expected it to do years ago - consumer metasearch for its vast portfolio of properties. Read More
Cutting out the noise to get the full travel story - but now what do we call it?
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Cutting out the noise to get the full travel story - but now what do we call it?
By Viewpoints | January 11, 2013
Six years ago - still a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne - I had to organize a conference trip to Poland. Read More
Let's fight for an open world, with no boundaries or prejudice, with travel as our weapon [VIDEO]
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Let's fight for an open world, with no boundaries or prejudice, with travel as our weapon [VIDEO]
By Kevin May | January 9, 2013
It could of course be a line from a whimsical travel writer - but it's not. It's the description behind a new advertising campaign for European travel search service, Momondo. Read More
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