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Sabre and Amadeus close MoneyDirect payment system
By Kevin May
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July 4, 2011
MoneyDirect, a joint venture by Amadeus and Sabre to handle multi-channel payments across the travel and tourism industry, is to be axed....
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Mr and Mrs Smith brings hotel search and naughtiness to iPhone app
By Kevin May
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July 4, 2011
Plenty of travel smartphone applications emerging these days, but not that many that promote strip poker and allow the creation of travel playlists as well as booking a hotel....
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China search giant Baidu takes travel seriously with $306M punt on Qunar
By Kevin May
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July 3, 2011
While some industry folk in the western hemisphere gasp at levels of money being thrown into the likes of Wimdu and Airbnb, over in China there are even bigger sums in play....
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Nascar fans testing mobile app at Daytona Coke Zero 400 weekend
By Dennis Schaal
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July 3, 2011
While Nascar fans were enjoying the Coke Zero 400 Weekend at Dayt0na International Speedway over the holiday weekend, several hundred fans were piloting the new Daytona International Speedway mobile app....
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Opodo-eDreams-GoVoyages lauded as new European agency powerhouse
By Kevin May
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July 3, 2011
Fundamental change in the online travel agency landscape in Europe this week following the completion of the merger of eDreams with GoVoyages and the addition of Opodo to the group....
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Best of Tnooz This Week - Zuckerberg tips, Useless apps, Check-outs check-in
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July 3, 2011
What were the best articles on Tnooz this week?...
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Air India lags as low costers dominate - Top India travel websites, 18 June 2011
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July 2, 2011
The three leading low cost carriers in India - Indigo, Jet Airways and SpiceJet - have secured a 43% share of visits to airline websites in the country....
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2011 - Where we've been, where we're going
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July 1, 2011
Many of the predictions at the beginning of 2011 concentrated on three key issues affecting the travel industry - merchandising, growth of social commerce and rapid developments in mobile....
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Travel is inherently social, but can we please define a social travel website?
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July 1, 2011
Social travel sites appear to launch every day - some get acquired by Google, some are mobile efforts in Asia, others are just riding the crest of the white hot social travel wave....
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Viajanet and Hotel Urbano switch over - Top Brazil travel sites, 25 June 2011
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July 1, 2011
Changes at the top of the Brazilian travel website charts with Viajanet dropping down to third place from second, swapping places with Hotel Urbano....
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What is beyond the booking for hotels and mobile?
By Glenn Gruber
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July 1, 2011
I have always said that mobile is a perfectly matched technology for travel as both are in use when you’re not at home....
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Two thirds of hotels want to offer bookings via a mobile
By Kevin May
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July 1, 2011
Hoteliers appear to be coming round to the world of mobile and yet another new channel to manage - 66% believe it is now important to offer bookings via a handset....
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Web tour and activity marketplace heats up as Azurever stakes claim
By Claude Bénard
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July 1, 2011
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based tour and activity platform Azurever....
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Hotel pricing - Europe - June to August 2011
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June 30, 2011
Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Europe from June to August 2011....
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Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus briefs - June 2011
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June 30, 2011
Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during June 2011 - all here in one easy read....
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