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TripAdvisor acquires Citymaps, a social mapping startup

By Sean O'Neil | August 24, 2016

TripAdvisor has acquired Citymaps, a New York City-based, social-mapping startup. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. A year ago, Citymaps raised a $6 million financing round -- with Nokia Gr... Read More

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Excursiopedia becomes PlanetPass, starts small with guided tours

By Linda Fox | August 24, 2016

Tours and activities specialist Excursiopedia has morphed into PlanetPass, a mobile application that helps consumers find guided tours in destinations. PlanetPass is now available for London with a... Read More

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Airports and passengers in harmony - big opportunity for agencies to play a part

By Viewpoints | August 24, 2016

The value-add being delivered by travel agencies is dwindling, fast - and this is more acute for so-called brick-and-mortar businesses. NB: This is an analysis by Manu Agrawal, a senior business co... Read More

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In a first, Expedia promotes a hotel’s loyalty rates and rewards program

By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016

Expedia, Inc., is the first online travel intermediary to begin displaying a hotel chain's discounted loyalty rates next to standard rates. It's also the first to cheerlead for a hotel's own loyalty p... Read More

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StayNTouch touts its mobile hotel tech integration at MGM's Aria Las Vegas

By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016

One of the big hotel industry themes lately has been the transition from server-based property management systems (which are not designed for touch and tablet devices) to ones that are cloud-based, mo... Read More

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OneFineStay enlists Accor expertise to boost expansion

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

Upmarket property rental brand OneFineStay is accelerating its global ambitions, thanks to its recent acquisition by global hotel chain Accor. The first new city for the company to target will be M... Read More

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A few numbers on online travel fraud

By Linda Fox | August 23, 2016

Online fraud prevention specialist Riskified has pulled together some of its data to provide a picture of where and how fraud is most likely to occur. The good news is that 98% of online flight ord... Read More

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FlightGlobal snap up FlightStats and Diio

By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2016

FlightGlobal, a data services and media brand owned by Reed Business Information, has acquired FlightStats, an airline data services firm, and Diio, a provider of airline market intelligence tools.... Read More

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KLM wants flight transparency, adds reviews and ratings to search results

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

Netherlands-based airline KLM reckons it can enhance its relationship with passengers and improve customer service with the introduction of a reviews system. The "Rate My Flight" idea has been in t... Read More

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Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L... Read More

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Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and Wotif quietly add natural language search to their homepages

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

Last month, Expedia Inc quietly rolled out natural-language search to its platforms. The "Search Anything" feature has been added as a tab to the homepages of most of its English-language platform sit... Read More

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Chinese airlines aim to improve their international websites and apps

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

Chinese airlines are slowly improving their foreign websites’ and apps' content and e-commerce capabilities, as the carriers expand globally. For instance, Spring Airlines is working with Booking.c... Read More

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Some travel search queries are now almost exclusively on mobile devices

By Kevin May | August 22, 2016

The vast majority of searches for travel-related terms such as "5-star" and "best time to visit" are now beginning on a mobile or tablet device. Hitwise recently analysed the web activity of some t... Read More

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Travel tech CEO allegedly fell for a €1.5 million scam before his fatal flight

By Sean O'Neil | August 22, 2016

In the days in July before his chartered plane crashed in Slovenia, Thomas Wagner, founder of Germany's largest homegrown seller of package tours, was conned out of €1.5 million, say investigators.... Read More

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Startup pitch: Zipskee looks to connect travellers with locals

By Linda Fox | August 22, 2016

Zipskee has been set up as a platform to bring travellers and locals together. It is seeking to help all travellers have a friend who can show them the best spots while on a trip and hopefully make fo... Read More

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