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Kayak adds price forecasts to US and UK fare search, saying it's better than Bing Travel
By Sean O'Neil
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January 15, 2013
Today US metasearch site Kayak is introducing a price forecast tool similar to an airfare prediction service pioneered in 2005 by Farecast and later acquired by Bing Travel....
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TripAdvisor tests hotel metasearch service - now the fun really begins
By Kevin May
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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....
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The total cost of travel technology [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May
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January 15, 2013
From individuals who have implemented a small system to those coordinating major overhauls of existing platforms in large companies, organising travel technology is not an easy process....
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KLM is at it again - combines the social graph, things-to-do and maps
By Kevin May
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January 15, 2013
Dutch airline KLM continually gets the attention of its peers around the industry, more often than not for simply doing things online that are more than just selling flight tickets....
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Wotif and Webjet pull ahead - Top Australia travel websites, December 2012
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January 14, 2013
Market leader Wotif and second placed Webjet have increased their share of traffic in the list of most popular travel websites in Australia....
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Where does your hotel tax money in the US go? [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May
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January 14, 2013
As online travel agencies come under the microscope again for how they pay (or not) their local taxes when contracting hotels, some might wonder what impact those taxes actually have....
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Top tech companies fail to shine in social media engagement stakes
By Linda Fox
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January 14, 2013
The UK's fastest growing technology companies are not so speedy when it comes to engaging customers on social media according to a study...
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The Scan: Celebrities boost BA sales, Delta hints at tech plans, ClearTrip adopts Passbook, and more news
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January 14, 2013
Rihanna, British Airways, Delta Airlines, Google, ClearTrip, Apple's Passbook, HotelsPro, HRS, Carsolize, Thai Airways, Air New Zealand, TelMap, Tagman, Accelya, and Revera all make today's round-up of travel technology news briefs....
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Hello, Social Media Butler - a $47,000 hotel assistant to help share Barack Obama inauguration
By Kevin May
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January 14, 2013
In what would normally be filed under "More money than sense", one US hotel has created an eye-watering deal costing $47,000 which includes a Social Media Butler....
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Best of Tnooz last week - All about going crazy, mashing-up, guerillas, caring and Holy Grails
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January 13, 2013
What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?...
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Glass bottom jet! Delta's new iPad app aggregates features for a wholly device-specific experience
By Nick Vivion
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January 11, 2013
Delta has been working on their digital experience for over two years now, and as as far as airlines are concerned, the newly minted app offers a very unique experience that is, thankfully, thoughtful, fun, and potentially very useful....
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App in the Air wants to remove airport stress through status alerts and passenger chat
By Linda Fox
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January 11, 2013
The idea for Russia-based App in the Air grew out of a geo-location chat service called Squeek with the team soon realising that key users were those chatting in airports...
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Cutting out the noise to get the full travel story - but now what do we call it?
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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....
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Faktum - you will have never seen a hotel website like this before
By Kevin May
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January 11, 2013
At a brief first glance, Faktum Hotels looks like any other of the image-heavy, well-designed hotel websites kicking about on the internet these days....
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American Express cuts deep in travel as digital revolution bites
By Linda Fox
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January 11, 2013
Online servicing is now the preferred channel for many American Express corporate customers as the company reveals sweeping international job cuts as part of the shift...
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