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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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Airline and hotel apps less popular than OTA apps with Millennials

By Nick Vivion | January 21, 2015

Millennials are under-indexing on airline and hotel apps, while dramatically over-indexing in their usage of branded OTA apps. This finding challenges certain beliefs that the millennial is now boo Read More

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Booking.com re-enters last-minute fray with mobile-only Booking Now

By Nick Vivion | January 16, 2015

As traveler behavior trends towards last-minute bookings, pretty much every OTA has launched a new last-minute solution. Booking.com had one of the earlier entrants to this space, with Booking.com Read More

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Seamless global transit: One travel app to rule them all

By Nick Vivion | January 6, 2015

By aggregating multiple services and information, the "One App" travel concept envisions a truly seamless travel and transit future worldwide. The travel app concept, which was funded by an EU tech Read More

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How iBeacon will deliver for travel in 2015

By Viewpoints | January 6, 2015

In the few months since Apple released the iPhone 6 and unveiled its new iWatch, the tech world has been largely focused on the hardware. Much has been written about the larger screen size, increased Read More

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GM adds hotel and restaurant reservations to in-vehicle system

By Nick Vivion | January 5, 2015

General Motors has released an update to OnStar, its in-vehicle assistance system, that allows subscribers to book hotels directly with an agent. The subscription service, which is available across Read More

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Pivotal moments in 2014: when mobile overtook desktop

By Daniele Beccari | December 29, 2014

Forty percent. The number was embedded in an Expedia-Comscore workshop presented at PhocusWright, alongside lots of other data, and it got lost in the maelstrom. No one noticed. But it was right Read More

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Quicket adds new twist to mobile OTA: In-flight movie reviews

By Nick Vivion | December 19, 2014

Quicket is a mobile app that exists to book airline tickets - or as the company touts itself, an app for "mobile travel services." This is a definition that speaks to the startup's ambition to become Read More

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Travelers have growing expectations of the airport experience

By Nick Vivion | December 18, 2014

Travelers have growing expectations from airports, says the latest FlightView Connected Airport survey. The US-focused survey, available for download here, focuses on the connectivity needs of a gr Read More

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Expedia releases live travel ticker and real-time reviews

By Nick Vivion | December 11, 2014

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi revealed two new data-led features on stage from the annual Expedia Partner Event in Las Vegas: a live travel ticker and real-time hotel reviews. Real-time travel tick Read More

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