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The best day to promote your travel app is...

By Nick Vivion | April 7, 2015

Sensor Tower has crunched the data to find the best time for mobile engagement across all iOS categories, and has found that the weekend is the best time to promote travel apps. The team pulled est Read More

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Startup pitch: Polarsteps automatically tracks and plots worldwide jaunts

By Nick Vivion | April 2, 2015

As mobile technology evolves, startups are granted new ways to offer travel services - such as Polarsteps, which is leveraging ambient location technology to provide frictionless travel tracking. T Read More

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If TripAdvisor is a gateway to other travel apps, will its strategy fall flat?

By Nick Vivion | March 26, 2015

A recent survey of mobile users found that those with the TripAdvisor app downloaded to their phones were far more likely to have also downloaded another travel app, such as a third-party OTA, airline Read More

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Wayfindr is a new student-led technology for the visually impaired traveler

By Nick Vivion | March 17, 2015

It's not often that the mainstream tech press covers ways in which destinations and cities can use technology to ease navigation challenges for the visually impaired. A group of students have tackled Read More

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How to protect yourself from joining the plague of forgotten travel apps

By Nick Vivion | March 17, 2015

Forgotten travel apps are a blot on the landscape of the travel and holiday sectors, according to new Ipsos UK research. The research included a survey of 400 users online in each of three vertical Read More

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Qunar marks shift from meta to OTA, from PC to mobile

By Martin Cowen | March 17, 2015

Qunar has grown its revenues for 2014 by 106% compared with 2013, with mobile revenues up by a blockbuster 435%. The results put 2014 revenues at $283.1 million, with mobile accounting for 40% of t Read More

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Ridesharing, airports and hotels to benefit from Apple Watch integrations

By Nick Vivion | March 9, 2015

As expected there are three key areas of travel that will benefit from the upcoming Apple Watch launch. Hotels Starwood received star treatment on stage with its integration with Apple Watch. Read More

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Patent finding reveals how movement could integrate into Apple payments ecosystem

By Nick Vivion | March 9, 2015

Today is W-Day — Apple Watch Day. The Cupertino-based tech behemoth is set to reveal final details about its much-hyped Apple Watch product today, setting off a wave of anticipation for the first new Read More

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Google to rank brands with Android apps higher in mobile searches

By Nick Vivion | March 3, 2015

Developers, pay attention: Google has changed its ranking algorithm for mobile searches and will prioritize results for those brands with Android apps installed on the searcher's phone. The announc Read More

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Android to become central nervous system — including seamless translation into any language

By Nick Vivion | March 2, 2015

Seamless translation into any language via a "lightweight wearable" could soon be a reality, suggested Google's mobile czar Sundar Pichai during today's session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelo Read More

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Make your responsive website respond quickly on mobile

By Viewpoints | March 2, 2015

As mobile starts to matter even more in travel and hospitality, it is important that the user experience comes up to speed, literally. NB This is an analysis by David Hsieh, VP Marketing at Instar Read More

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HolidayIQ works with Indian govt on offline mobile guides

By Martin Cowen | February 18, 2015

HolidayIQ.com has launched a series of offline mobile travel guides, in conjunction with the Indian tourism ministry, covering more than 1,300 destinations in India. Each guide needs to be download Read More

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Worldmate platform chosen by JTB-CWT for push into Japan

By Martin Cowen | February 12, 2015

Worldmate has been named as the mobile trip-planning platform of choice for the JTB-CWT joint venture in Japan. The move is intended to pick up on some of the unmanaged part of the $65 billion spen Read More

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Emerging markets continue to turn to technology to book travel

By Nick Vivion | February 12, 2015

While emerging markets are taking a bit of a beating as far as growth, the expectations on the travel side of things remain healthy. As the red-hot growth cools, it leaves a newly-minted middle class Read More

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Apple Pay takes to the JetBlue skies in first airline deal

By Nick Vivion | February 10, 2015

In the first deal of its kind, JetBlue will soon begin accepting Apple Pay as a form of in-flight payment. The first flights to enjoy the mobile payment option will be non-stops between New York's Read More

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