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Yapta targets corporate travel with fare-savings tool
By Dennis Schaal
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May 7, 2012
Yapta began a pilot program with "several large travel management companies" to test a new tool designed to capture savings when airfares drop....
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How a Swiss village wanted tourists but ended up performing better than Lady GaGa on Facebook
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May 7, 2012
Those shy and retiring Swiss certainly know how to make some noise when it comes destination marketing on the web - even when it's a tiny village in the mountains....
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What Else? MobilyTrip 170,000 pix, ReviewPro hires, Trafficmaster Olympics
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May 7, 2012
MobilyTrip reaches imge and guide milestones, ReviewPro hires in US and Europe, Trafficmaster readies for London 2012... What else is happening in travel tech around the world....
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Here in one place: Best of Tnooz last week - Topping hotels, Designing sites, Changing retail
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May 6, 2012
What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?...
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Wait, what is this? Expedia powers new GoogleDeal website
By Kevin May
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May 4, 2012
Just for fun. A headline to send its fellow members of the FairSearch anti-Google lobbying group running to the hills in horror, but Expedia is indeed helping run a site called GoogleDeal....
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To app or not to app - that is the question. But what is the answer in travel?
By Kevin May
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May 4, 2012
How many times at a travel conference or seminar has a mobile provider or company been asked whether it is best to stick with the mobile version of a site or develop an app?...
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Hotwire and United MileagePlus enter into unique hotel deal
By Dennis Schaal
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May 4, 2012
Members of the United Airlines MileagePlus frequent flyer program can now use their miles to get unpublished hotel rates through Hotwire....
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What Else? Whistler whistles, Rategain-Choice Hotels, Hail GetTaxi, BBC America
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May 4, 2012
Whistler upgrades search and booking, Choice Hotels selects Rategain, GetTaxi loves black London cabs, BBC America Minds the Gap... What else is happening in travel tech around the world....
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Local is the new black in travel search
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
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May 4, 2012
What is local? Metasearch has not had a huge amount of luck with developing operations in local markets....
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When merchandising is no longer a slippery slope for ski operator
By Dennis Schaal
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May 3, 2012
A couple of years ago, Park City Mountain Resort's merchandising efforts were relatively vanilla, with "a couple of pricing tiers and a handful of products."...
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Orbitz Worldwide returns flight-booking fees to CheapTickets to build hotel business
By Dennis Schaal
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May 3, 2012
Orbitz Worldwide went along with most of the online travel agency pack and eliminated the bulk of its flight-booking fees for its US brands in 2009, but quietly brought them back on CheapTickets.com in September 2011....
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Designing the perfect travel website [and avoiding AB Testing]
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May 3, 2012
To appeal to today’s traveler, aggressive search engine advertising and distracting display ads are not enough....
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Hotel Urbano closes in on Booking.com - Top Brazil travel sites, April 28 2012
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May 3, 2012
Booking.com could see an end to its reign at the head of the top ten travel websites in Brazil as Hotel Urbano comes within a whisker of taking the prime spot....
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How TripAdvisor off-shoot Tingo could change travel AND retail forever
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May 3, 2012
The wrong industry is paying attention to Tingo, the recent side project from TripAdvisor which is gaining notoriety from the travel trade....
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Ritz-Carlton bungs as much tech as possible into new mobile application
By Linda Fox
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May 3, 2012
Just because you can doesn't mean you should when it comes to what to include in a mobile application and some of the best advice out there is to keep it simple...
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