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Lufthansa sues Sabre, as the tussle over the GDS surcharge escalates

By Sean O'Neil | March 14, 2016

Lufthansa has filed a lawsuit in a Texas court against Sabre. At issue is whether the German airline group is in breach of its 2015 contracts regarding the Distribution Cost Charge (DCC) -- the Eur... Read More

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Trainline acquires Captain Train, and other European rail startups react

By Sean O'Neill | March 14, 2016

Captain Train, a Parisian operator of an online portal that sells inter-city European rail tickets, has been acquired by Trainline, Britain's largest digital rail-booking operator for UK train trips.... Read More

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What defines the most technologically advanced hotel in the world?

By Kevin May | March 14, 2016

Claiming something is the "most technologically advanced" is a risky proposition, but in the battle for exposure to customers and massive competition, it's an important trend. The Aria Resort &... Read More

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How to optimize travel search results with an analytics framework

By Viewpoints | March 14, 2016

Recent news about Expedia’s Accelerator program for hotel listings has opinions swirling about the monetization of search results in the travel industry. NB This is a viewpoint by Tony Gray, senior... Read More

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Invia sale to investment fund values firm at Euro 76 million

By Linda Fox | March 14, 2016

Private equity firm MCI has sold its interest in Czech Republic-based online travel firm Invia for Euro 56 million. The company was sold to Prague-based investment fund Rockaway, which has invested... Read More

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Airbnb to let neighbors report on bad hosts

By Sean O'Neil | March 14, 2016

Next month, Airbnb is going to enable neighbors to provide comments on nearby hosts, a company executive said on Monday. The virtual comment box will debut in Japan and then roll out worldwide, sai... Read More

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Just Landed just shut down, and its story has lessons for other travel apps

By Sean O'Neil | March 11, 2016

The ancient Greeks had epic poetry about warriors. We modern people have Medium posts from startup founders. Proof that this is the literary form of our time is that, earlier this week, the travel... Read More

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Cornell study analyzes TripAdvisor reviews to help hotel managers

By Sean O'Neil | March 11, 2016

Online reviews of hotels don't usually make for scintillating reading. But with the power to make or break a hotel's profitability, they are read closely. So hotel managers may be curious to know a... Read More

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US Airways versus Sabre once again heads to a jury trial

By Sean O'Neil | March 11, 2016

Last autumn, Sabre got an early holiday gift. The presiding judge said she would not give US Airways a critical legal declaration it wanted. Judge Lorna Schofield of the US Southern District Court... Read More

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Sabre: Millennials may be the largest hotel spenders as soon as 2017

By Martin Cowen | March 11, 2016

Another day, another tipping point: Millennials will become the largest spenders on hotels as early as 2017, claims Sabre. At ITB this week, Sabre's vice president of marketing for hospitality solu... Read More

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Lufthansa talks up direct connect as big corporate agency comes on-board

By Kevin May | March 11, 2016

Lufthansa claims it has achieved more progress with "B2B direct connections" in the last six months than in the previous five years. The airline group said during the ITB event in Berlin this week... Read More

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Executives at Unister, Germany's largest OTA, face legal twists

By Sean O'Neil | March 10, 2016

Executives, managers, and shareholders of German travel portal Unister -- a travel industry player on the level of vacation companies like Thomas Cook, TUI, and Kuoni -- have been facing legal trouble... Read More

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7 things that small travel providers need to do to compete

By Viewpoints | March 10, 2016

After reading Tnooz's article “Escapio switches to hotel metasearch: Will small OTAs follow?” on the change of the German online travel agency's (OTAs) business strategy, I began to ask myself if smal... Read More

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TurnKey raises $10 million to expand its vacation rentals management service

By Sean O'Neil | March 10, 2016

TurnKey, a company that sells technology to support vacation rental owners, has raised $10 million, bringing its total investment, to date, to $20 million. Prior investor Silverton Partners of Tex... Read More

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Even the UNWTO is talking about the sharing economy

By Kevin May | March 10, 2016

The World Tourism Organization is probably best known for a diplomatic and often high-brow approach to travel affecting the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. That's fair enough, given that... Read More

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