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In fighting mood, Orbitz signs deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship

By Dennis Schaal | December 9, 2010

Orbitz Worldwide is in a fighting mood and it has nothing to do with American Airlines and hearings scheduled for Dec. 10 and 13 in Chicago about a temporary restraining order.... Read More

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HotelsCombined and eLong -- Does size of hotel reach matter?

By Dennis Schaal | December 9, 2010

Hotel metaseach website Hotelscombined struck a distribution deal with China's second largest online travel agency, eLong.... Read More

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Arguing the case for an open source hotel industry switch

By Viewpoints | December 9, 2010

There is a massive single point of failure in our industry: the Pegasus switch which connects hotel reservation systems to the GDSs and other online channels of distribution.... Read More

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WikiLeaks: US concerned about German criticism of Passenger Name Recognition, Visa Waiver programs

By Dennis Schaal | December 9, 2010

Finally, an important travel and data privacy angle in the WikiLeaks document dump.... Read More

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Flight Centre demands tweets, blogs and more from new social media gurus

By Viewpoints | December 9, 2010

Flight Centre is going to war. No, not with a competitor, (although that would be interesting!) but with the Old School resume and possibly the entire recruitment process itself.... Read More

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Jamaica claims 3D destination promotion first

By Kevin May | December 9, 2010

The Jamaican tourism board says it has created the world's first destination video filmed entirely in 3D, a project which has been in development for most of 2010.... Read More

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TLabs Showcase - Travelmenu

By Kevin May | December 9, 2010

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Russia-based online travel agency Travelmenu.... Read More

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Google and the difficult decisions it faces for local business listings

By Viewpoints | December 9, 2010

Demonstrating the latest local advertising search features at LeWeb 2010 in Paris this week, Google used scenarios that raise questions on relevancy and accuracy of travel-related search results.... Read More

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Word-of-mouth marketing affects travel B2C and B2B

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | December 9, 2010

The old adage of any PR is good PR doesn’t necessarily translate into value in the firehose data-based web economy.... Read More

By PhocusWire | December 8, 2010

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending December 4 2010.... Read More

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In TRX deal, hotelicopter targets business travel market with Ratrix reporting tool

By Dennis Schaal | December 8, 2010

TRX signed a deal with hotel metasearch engine hotelicopter to integrate hotel rates and availability from online travel agency and hotel websites into the TRX corporate booking tool, RESX.... Read More

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How to get 100 travel agents embracing social media for 100 days

By Kevin May | December 8, 2010

Here is an intriguing idea from a US company to motivate travel agents around the world to start using social media channels and create their own blogs.... Read More

By PhocusWire | December 8, 2010

Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending December 4 2010.... Read More

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Google Places blocked from using TripAdvisor reviews

By Kevin May | December 8, 2010

Now here is an interesting development - Google is no longer able to stream in reviews from TripAdvisor to Places pages after the user review giant blocked it.... Read More

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Members-only? No, Expedia hotel flash sales for price-conscious everyman

By Dennis Schaal | December 8, 2010

Expedia introduced flash sales for hotels, but the vibe is far different from that at competitors Jetsetter, VoyagePrive, RueLaLa.com, Off&Away or even Expedia's own SniqueAway.... Read More

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