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Booking.com hovers close behind Hotel Urbano - Top Brazil travel sites, January 7 2012

By PhocusWire | January 12, 2012

Hotel Urbano will be looking over its shoulder in the list of leading travel websites in Brazil as Booking.com moves to within a fraction of the market leader.... Read More

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Malaysia Airlines gets paperless cockpit via Lufthansa technology

By Linda Fox | January 12, 2012

Malaysia Airlines is anticipating time as well as financial savings with the implementation of an electronic flight bag system... Read More

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Why travel brands should ignore the HATERs and move the MEHs to LOVE ITs

By Viewpoints | January 12, 2012

I don’t know any tourism business with more polarized TripAdvisor reviews than Swarovski Crystal Worlds in Austria.... Read More

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How airlines use Twitter - December 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | January 12, 2012

Slight decline in the number of tweets mentioning the most popular airlines on Twitter, back to the 46,000 level achieved by the top three airlines in October 2011.... Read More

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What else? Kuoni affiliates, Premier Hotels, Rail Europe, DoSomethingDifferent

By PhocusWire | January 12, 2012

Kuoni and Affiliate Window, Premier Hotels and Availpro, Rail Europe and eTracker, DoSomethingDifferent and Facebook. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More

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The social web for hotels in 2012 - review and reputation management [Part 2 of 3]

By Josiah Mackenzie | January 12, 2012

In the first article in this series, we looked at technologies that were important in the past year, and how they might play a big role in the year ahead.... Read More

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DayUse-Hotels targets guests looking for a brief sleep or quick rendez-vous

By Kevin May | January 12, 2012

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based DayUse-Hotels, a service for hotels selling rooms for limited hours during the day.... Read More

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Virgin Australia on brink of overtaking Qantas - Top Australia travel websites, January 7 2012

By PhocusWire | January 11, 2012

Qantas is just a fraction ahead of rival carrier Virgin Australia in the list of leading airline websites in Australia.... Read More

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Yipit: Groupon Getaways grew 50 percent in November in North America

By Dennis Schaal | January 11, 2012

Even before its IPO, Groupon indicated that travel would be a key growth driver and it is indeed turning out to be so.... Read More

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EasyJet answers regulators with upfront admin fee, scraps free Visa Electron payments

By Linda Fox | January 11, 2012

EasyJet is making changes overnight to the way consumers pay for its flights with the introduction of a £9 administration charge.... Read More

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Room Key: Open to all, will lower hotel distribution costs, features and marketing to come

By Kevin May | January 11, 2012

More details emerging about Room Key, the global hotel search platform created by six of the biggest accommodation super-brands in the world.... Read More

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HomeAway becomes a verb with positive ad campaign [VIDEO]

By Dennis Schaal | January 11, 2012

If you can Google something, then perhaps you can "HomeAway" your vacation, too.... Read More

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Kayak is getting all grown up and selects Kenshoo for digital marketing

By Dennis Schaal | January 11, 2012

Seeking to navigate a changing digital advertising environment, Kayak tapped Kenshoo Enterprise for its digital marketing software platform.... Read More

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Best opportunities on the social web for hotels (and others) in 2012 [Part 1 of 3]

By Josiah Mackenzie | January 11, 2012

Niels Bohr once said: "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future."... Read More

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Hotel giants come together to launch Room Key search site

By Kevin May | January 11, 2012

Massive development in the hotel sector with six of the biggest hotel chains on the planet uniting to launch Room Key, a new online hotel search platform.... Read More

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