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Creative review of airline ancillaries looks to Allegiant, easyJet and Amazon

By Martin Cowen | November 1, 2017

IdeaWorks has been banging the drum for ancillary revenues for a decade or so, and its latest contribution highlights innovation over earnings. Its 2017 Top Merchandising Innovations to Delight Pas... Read More

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Via.com sold to financial services specialist for $75 million

By Martin Cowen | November 1, 2017

Ebix, a Nasdaq-listed software and services provider, has bought India-based via.com in a deal valuing the omnichannel travel, fintech and retail business at $75 million. The deal was conducted by... Read More

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Alibaba founder invests in China home-sharing service Xiaozhu

By Sponsored Content | November 1, 2017

This is an article from China Travel News.It appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. Xiaozhu, a rival to Airbnb in China, has raised $120 million in its latest financing round, b... Read More

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Sabre weathers the third-quarter storms, aided by growth in EMEA, APAC

By Michele McDonald | October 31, 2017

Despite the thrashing dealt out by two major hurricanes in Sabre Corp.’s strongest region, the company emerged from the third quarter with a 7% increase in revenue and a 15.3% hike in adjusted net inc... Read More

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Amadeus on changing business models, tech ROI and NDC

By Marisa Garcia | October 31, 2017

Business strategy evolution is as critical as technology revolution according to a senior executive from Amadeus. In the sidelines of IATA’s World Passenger Symposium in Barcelona last week, tnooz... Read More

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How iCruise.com defeated web scrapers with Distil Networks

By Sponsored Content | October 31, 2017

Travel suppliers, airlines, hotels, OTAs, and metasearch sites are constantly scraped and abused by bad bots. These automated visitors inflict long-term SEO damage, pillage customer accounts, skew loo... Read More

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Destinations go digital - quirky campaigns that help tell a story

By Rob Gill | October 31, 2017

It would probably be fair to say that tourist offices and destinations have not generally been in the vanguard of digital marketing. But there are signs that this is changing with an increasing num... Read More

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Finnair looks to simplify direct booking via API technology

By Marisa Garcia | October 30, 2017

Finnair has selected Amadeus’ Digital Retail API to simplify bookings on the airline's website and mobile app. The website and mobile app handle one quarter of the airline’s sales, and together form... Read More

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Transforming the future of the travel experience, one mobile at a time

By Sponsored Content | October 30, 2017

This is a viewpoint from Robert Meza, head of travel at the ENTERTAINER. Take a minute to imagine that you’ve just arrived in Barcelona (or Bangkok, London, Perth, you choose). You’ve got just 12 h... Read More

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Are Google and Facebook helpful to airlines, or just helping themselves?

By Viewpoints | October 30, 2017

This is a viewpoint from Matt Walker, chief storyteller at Likewhere. Google and Facebook continue to help their airline partners by releasing all manner of travel-related products. In fact, they a... Read More

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tnoozLIVE@Arival: Gray Line CEO Brad Weber

By Nick Vivion | October 27, 2017

This is the first part in a series of articles spun out of tnoozLIVE@Arival, recorded live at the Arival in-destination event held at the LINQ in Las Vegas. More clips to come! To learn more about how... Read More

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Expedia Inc Q3s home in on HomeAway

By Martin Cowen | October 27, 2017

HomeAway has been given an noticeably higher profile in parent company Expedia Inc's latest earnings release, with bosses talking in terms of its "ecommerce transition" adding that it is also "growing... Read More

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App in the Air reveals AI-powered, voice-search enabled, augmented reality booking

By Marisa Garcia | October 27, 2017

The developers behind App in the Air presented a live demo of its new artificial intelligence-powered, voice-search enabled, augmented reality booking experience during Innovation Day at IATA's World... Read More

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Dockless: Exploring the fastest growing sector of the sharing economy

By Matt Radack | October 27, 2017

Chinese technology companies are often accused of being knockoffs of American firms, but Silicon Valley startup LimeBike’s recent 50 million Series B round shows that the copycat model can apply in th... Read More

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Flair Airlines turns to Salesforce as it assumes mantle of Canadian ULCC

By Michele McDonald | October 26, 2017

Flair Airlines, a charter carrier based in the western province of British Columbia that is taking a run at the ultra-low-cost market, is bringing in some big-name help to get it right. The company... Read More

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