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Many more travel planning websites planned for 2010

By Dennis Schaal | December 24, 2009

This is not a 2010 prediction, but a certainty: Many more travel planning, research and metasearch websites are planned for 2010. This crowded field promises to get more crowded. For example,... Read More

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Kayak: We are still a media company, booking tool is just a service

By Kevin May | December 11, 2009

A little bit more meat on the bones of Kayak's news yesterday that it will be launching a significant new proposition in 2010 with booking functionality for users of its iPhone application. Reaction... Read More

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Kayak sort of turns into an online travel agency to capture mobile market

By Kevin May | December 10, 2009

Kayak is blaming the rise of the iPhone and the popularity of its app but the metasearch engine has effectively turned its strategy on its head with an important announcement overnight. The company has... Read More

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Google shuns opportunity for travel with Comparison Ads - for the time being

By Kevin May | December 9, 2009

Google says it has no plans to extend its recently launched Comparison Ads project to include products from the travel vertical. The confirmation comes during a busy week for Google as it rolls out the... Read More

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TravelFusion building point-to-point tools, start of a giant leap for metasearch

By Kevin May | December 9, 2009

Metasearch is finally climbing into what could be an exciting second phase with news that TravelFusion is developing new functionality to allow full travel plan searches. The UK-based firm will launch... Read More

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TourCMS builds Marketplace for niche tour operators

By Kevin May | November 29, 2009

Small travel company reservation system technology doesn’t capture the imagination (nor the headlines) as much as other sectors attracting online travel entrepreneurs such as metasearch, consumer... Read More

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Maybe FareCompare will beat Bing-Farecast to Europe?

By Kevin May | November 27, 2009

News this week that Microsoft's fully functioning Bing Travel will not be hitting Europe in 2009 means that another site from the US with air price data prediction tools at its heart, FareCompare, might... Read More

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Peter Jones ignores first rule of brand ambassadorship - stay on-message

By Kevin May | November 27, 2009

Bosses at the UK's biggest travel metasearch engine TravelSupermarket will be left scratching their heads this week after learning that the frontman for its sister brand's TV campaign is a big and very... Read More

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No Bing Travel-Farecast launch in Europe this year

By Kevin May | November 26, 2009

Disappointment for those eager to see the Farecast system on Bing Travel hit Europe and elsewhere with confirmation Microsoft will not be able to roll it out to territories outside of North America in... Read More

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Hold on to your hats - Cheapflights developing metasearch engine

By Kevin May | November 19, 2009

Cheapflights has stuck rigidly to its price comparison model for over a decade but it turns out that the UK-based firm, which has established successful websites in the US, Australia, Canada and... Read More

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Long Tail Travel innovations at PhoCusWright 2009

By Stephen Joyce | November 17, 2009

It would seem that least a couple of the innovations in this year's list of thirty-four innovators presenting at PhoCusWright's second Travel Innovation Summit have some application to long tail travel... Read More

I Love TV Advertising troop expands, Skyscanner says Me Too

By Kevin May | November 10, 2009

Broadcast advertising might not be in the dire straits that the marketing press claim it is if this current trend continues after news that Skyscanner is the latest metasearch engine to launch a TV ad... Read More

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Skyscanner says Hola and Hallo with hotel and car search expansion

By Kevin May | November 6, 2009

More developments from the Skyscanner camp - following the BRIC launches earlier this week - with news that its new hotel and car rental search tools will be rolled out to other country sites including... Read More

Kayak liftoff: First traffic report from new TV ad campaign

By Dennis Schaal | November 5, 2009

Kayak launched its all-important TV ad campaign Sunday, Nov. 1, and Hitwise tells me that Kayak's traffic increased 3% in the first three days compared with the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the... Read More

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BRIC by BRIC approach for Skyscanner as international push widens

By Kevin May | November 2, 2009

Not content with letting Kayak take all the headlines for its new TV ad, UK-based engine Skyscanner has a rather more strategic announcement to make. The company has today launched domains across the... Read More

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