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Hotel Urbano breathes down neck of Decolar - Top Brazil travel sites, November 12 2011

By PhocusWire | November 21, 2011

Decolar is now just 0.25% market share ahead of rival Hotel Urbano, as the gap narrows considerably in the list of top travel websites in Brazil.... Read More

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HotelTonight raises $9M for international and mobile platform expansion

By Dennis Schaal | November 21, 2011

HotelTonight, the same-day, mobile hotel-booking service, picked up $9 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures.... Read More

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How to combat Fake Review Optimization in travel

By Viewpoints | November 21, 2011

The first installment of this series showed how social media and search engine optimization aligned to create an environment that rewards hotels with high customer ratings.... Read More

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HouseTrip wins major $16.9 million second investment round, switches focus

By Kevin May | November 20, 2011

Short-term rental specialist HouseTrip is attracting more investment, this time a record $16.9 million from its existing backer Index Ventures and Balderton Capital.... Read More

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Peace in our time: Vayant and Everbread settle long-running dispute

By Kevin May | November 20, 2011

A bitter row between airfare shopping technology startups Vayant and Everbread, which ended up in the courts, is over - with a settlement agreed last week.... Read More

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MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Cleartrip take two-thirds of audience - Top India travel sites, November 12 2011

By PhocusWire | November 20, 2011

The top three online travel agencies in India - MakeMyTrip, Yatra and Cleartrip - have secured over two-thirds of the web audience in the country.... Read More

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Best of Tnooz Last Week - Spawning mutants, Finding idiots, Questioning social

By PhocusWire | November 20, 2011

What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?... Read More

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Vayant upgrades system, brings real-time to prime time

By Kevin May | November 19, 2011

Vayant is stepping up its attempts to muscle in on the world of airfare shopping technology with a major enhancement to the core service.... Read More

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Boyd of Priceline talks, but with a focus on focus there is no inspiration

By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2011

With a $25 billion market cap and counting, how does Priceline do it?... Read More

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Orbitz CEO plans to revolutionize hotel sort -- holy Hadoop

By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2011

When you get Barney Harford going about his pet project, turning around Orbitz Worldwide, he talks so fast that he seems to forget that sentences have periods on the end for a reason.... Read More

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Mobile specialist delivers Next Gen platform for travel

By Linda Fox | November 18, 2011

Mobile Travel Technologies has unleashed the latest version of its M2B platform with claims that it will solve many of the frustrations travel companies currently face with mobile.... Read More

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Airlines to triple ancillary revenue via travel agency involvement

By Linda Fox | November 18, 2011

Travel agents could boost airline ancillary revenue threefold via technology being integrated by the global distribution systems and other airline system suppliers... Read More

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Five tips for fast and effective mobile travel app development

By Daniele Beccari | November 18, 2011

Cloud-based applications over the past decade have introduced a shift in development processes, moving away from long spec &> dev &> QA phases, into very short release cycles, or sprints.... Read More

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Opodo-eDreams-GoVoyages powerhouse Odigeo plots next move, eyes startups and full service

By Kevin May | November 17, 2011

Europe's newest online travel giant has a new name and is setting itself a rapid plan to grow geographically as well as reach beyond its current guise as a hotel and air ticket seller.... Read More

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GuideHop brings in marketplace for tours and guided activities

By Kevin May | November 17, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based GuideHop, a peer-to-peer marketplace for tours and guided activities.... Read More

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