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How rail is challenging air travel’s supremacy

By Sponsored Content | March 1, 2016

Online travel agencies (OTAs) have always focused on meeting traveller needs through air travel. However the consolidation of the European rail network and rail's better environmental credentials, cou... Read More

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What Trivago taking 52.3% of Base7Booking implies for hotel tech

By Sean O'Neil | March 1, 2016

Trivago, the Expedia Inc-affiliated metasearch brand, officially said today that it has taken a majority investment in a Swiss startup, Base7Booking, which offers a cloud-based property management sys... Read More

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TripAdvisor's new CFO says quality hotel content is key to instant booking conversion

By Sean O'Neil | February 29, 2016

TripAdvisor’s new chief financial officer Ernst Teunissen has begun his tour of the investor forum circuit, speaking today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference. When it... Read More

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Amadeus spins with Uniglobe, Wandrr mindfulness, EasyJet scans credit card, and more...

By PhocusWire | February 29, 2016

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DEVICES in tourism and hospitality for February 2016. Monday 29 February 2016: Amadeus and Uniglobe create Trip Access Uniglobe... Read More

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Large study of Airbnb hosts hints at who is making the money

By Sean O'Neil | February 29, 2016

There's an ongoing debate about how home-sharing sites like Airbnb are performing, and a new study from LearnAirbnb, a consultancy, casts some fresh light. LearnAirbnb did a 119-page study of the h... Read More

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Think leisure players aren't touching business travel, think again

By Linda Fox | February 29, 2016

The business travel community swings between denying any impact from Airbnb, Uber and the like, to worrying what to do about them. Yet there they were, at last week's Business Travel Show in London... Read More

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Travel - where big business meets big data

By Sponsored Content | February 29, 2016

Without Al-Chwarizmi, Silicon Valley would be irrelevant. The name of this Arabian mathematician from the 9th century is the origin of the term algorithm, the system of defined steps which computers e... Read More

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Trekksoft fjords, SiteMinder gets IBC, Sabre signs EasyJet and Bangkok Airways, and more...

By PhocusWire | February 29, 2016

This is a roundup for product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for February 2016. Monday 29 February 2016: Trekksoft sails into Fjord Norway The tour... Read More

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Valuations, exits, fund-raising - life in the venture capital fast lane

By Kevin May | February 29, 2016

There is no doubt that many travel-related businesses have done well from the cash seemingly flowing like water around venture capital ecosystem. Hundreds of millions have been put into companies s... Read More

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Concur gets Gett, Triometric has seven in mind, BTD and Concur, and more...

By PhocusWire | February 26, 2016

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for February 2016. Friday 26 February 2016: Concur gets Gett The taxi app for official black... Read More

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Amadeus 2015 revenues get close to Euro 4 billion

By Martin Cowen | February 26, 2016

The North America and Asia-Pacific regions are the star performers for Amadeus' distribution and IT units respectively, with results for 2015 across its entire business showing double-digit growth in... Read More

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Rentalcars gets new CMO, Melt adds a CCO, Adara ups European team, and more...

By PhocusWire | February 26, 2016

This is a roundup of news and announcements for PEOPLE moves in travel, tourism and hospitality for February 2016: Friday 26 February Robb drives into Rentalcars Dan Robb is joining Rentalca... Read More

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TripAdvisor slammed in Russia over Crimea map designation

By Kevin May | February 26, 2016

Strained relations between the West and Russia have even hit the world of online travel, with accusations that TripAdvisor is misrepresenting the status of Crimea. The row has nothing to do with th... Read More

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One out of five bookings of Irish independent hotels are made on phones

By Sean O'Neil | February 25, 2016

NetAffinity has analyzed booking patterns for their Irish and European clients and found that 20.7% of independent hotel bookings were made on mobile phones last year. A further 17% booked via tab... Read More

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Interview with Amadeus' new head of R&D in the Americas

By Sean O'Neil | February 25, 2016

R&D is the bad conscience of the travel industry. Everyone knows they should be future-proofing by investing in new technologies and processes. But for many companies, it's too tempting to just st... Read More

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