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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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Cleartrip sees strength in the weekend

By Martin Cowen | February 4, 2015

Cleartrip's latest quarterly look at accommodation trends shows that transactions have grown by nearly 100% in a year, driven by a trend towards short breaks. It also noted that mobile bookings now Read More

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Hopper's new flight search app streamlines discovery of cheap flights

By Nick Vivion | February 2, 2015

After several years in stealth, Hopper launched a little over a year ago with the "world's largest structured database of travel information." The startup quickly discovered soft consumer interest in Read More

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The mobile majority is here in travel — and across all demographics

By Nick Vivion | January 29, 2015

There is a clear mobile majority in travel across all demographics for the first time ever, says the latest Travel Technology Survey from Phocuswright. The report, which covered habits in 2014, fou Read More

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Marketing watch: The top 5 challenges facing marketers globally

By Nick Vivion | January 28, 2015

The "marketer" designation continues to shift towards a new "marketing technologist" title, according to a massive new Salesforce report that crunched responses from 5,000 marketers across the globe. Read More

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Hotel technology investments to increase in 2015 to match guest expectations

By Nick Vivion | January 26, 2015

Hotels are matching heightened guest expectations with an increase in hotel technology budgets, investing an average of 4.9% of revenue in IT. The biggest spenders by this metric are the mid-scale cha Read More

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Mega (and meta) digital social mobile study released

By Martin Cowen | January 25, 2015

We Are Social, a global social media agency, has released its "Digital Social Mobile in 2015" report, a 376-page infographics-led study modestly described as "the most comprehensive, free compendium o Read More

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