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A round-up of frustration detection, user prompts, and other techniques for getting people to like your travel app.... Read More

We've had the articles on the value of big data for the travel industry and some questioning methods already being used for personalisation... Read More

We often work in very decentralized organisations in the travel industry. One unit is located in an outgoing market, another office is located at the incoming destination.... Read More

It's been a while since Google did one of its "experiments" around its Flight Search - but this latest one is quite a departure from what has come before it.... Read More

In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to persuade 2% of users to click through to the sites of travel suppliers, according to new research from PhoCusWright.... Read More

TripAdvisor continues to dominate the travel review game: in a little over a year, the company has effectively doubled the amount of offsite views their content receives on partner channels, going from 150 million monthly views in 2011 to over 300 million today.... Read More

Australia's Experience Flight is a portal for tours-and-activities that are in the sky, from joy rides on private planes, sky diving trips and hot-air balloon rides.... Read More

Is history repeating itself? An interesting move by Flybe this morning sees the airline going back to a bundled approach except this time with a supplement... Read More

Is your company a travel tech startup searching for traction? Wondering where to find that needle-moving business development partner in travel distribution and technology?... Read More

Travellers might want free wifi in hotels, or in some cases just wifi (even paid) would be nice, but it may not be enough to dissuade them from telling friends about a property or abandoning it altogether.... Read More

So even if we're now agreed that hotel search on engines such as Google is not about to disappear any time soon, there is still plenty that hotels can do to improve their performance in the channel.... Read More

Dallas-based American Airlines has rolled out a new pricing structure in a tweaked booking path on their direct booking website aa.com.... Read More

Keeping it in the family but a change at the top as Qantas and Jetstar trade places to lead the list of most popular airline websites in Australia.... Read More

One area were travel agents were traditionally strong in spite of the emergence of online travel, was in cruise bookings. Yet, a recent report suggests that travel agents are losing the battle on the cruise front.... Read More

Under-the-radar company Canadian company Demeure has added fresh tools to its an online directory for vacation property owners, travelers, and property managers, which generates most of its income from subscription access.... Read More