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The Montcalm Mystery - comparison widgets, Booking.com and a PR fail

By Kevin May | February 22, 2016

The idea of being able to compare rates from online travel agencies on a hotel website seems to get folk hot under the collar at the moment. Triptease has the comparison widget at the heart of its... Read More

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GuestLogix is up for sale in court-ordered process

By Sean O'Neil | February 22, 2016

GuestLogix, a seller of payment processing technology to travel companies, is on the auction block, following its slip into creditor protection earlier this month. A court has okayed for the Toront... Read More

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Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels

By Linda Fox | February 22, 2016

Figures from the GBTA Foundation show business travellers from the UK, Germany and France are fairly evenly split between booking via traditional channels and alternative methods. The study shows t... Read More

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Thomas Cook India links up with Airbnb for international packages

By Martin Cowen | February 22, 2016

Indian travellers could soon be able to walk into a branch of Thomas Cook India and book a flight-plus-Airbnb package after the pair announced that they were looking at ways of working together. Ab... Read More

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Amadeus brings TripHobo into Next startup circle

By Kevin May | February 22, 2016

Amadeus Next, an incubator-style division focused on nurturing startups in Asia-Pacific, has enlisted TripHobo to its portfolio of new businesses. The trip planning and itinerary service will join... Read More

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HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee

By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016

This week HomeAway, the vacation rental platform, began rolling out a traveler fee to its US websites (HomeAway, VRBO, and VacationRentals.com), with a plan to introduce the fees globally later this y... Read More

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In 2015, TripAdvisor grew its vacation rental listings 18%, to 770,000

By PhocusWire | February 19, 2016

TripAdvisor is quiet about its vacation rental businesses, at least relative to the noise its competitors like HomeAway and Airbnb make about their own services-- and compared with how much the Massac... Read More

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Travel tech industry smells money in gigantic new Istanbul airport

By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016

Turkey is on track to spend more than $5 billion on Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA), which -- if it fulfills its ambitions -- will have six runways and four terminals. By the end of next year, its fir... Read More

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Travel companies silent on the US vs Apple debate, so far

By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016

Yesterday the technology industry was in an uproar over a US government request made of Apple relating to the security protections on an iPhone. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked a... Read More

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B2B revenues double for Skyscanner

By Martin Cowen | February 19, 2016

Skyscanner's 2015 results show how the Edinburgh-based tech business is building a global consumer presence at the same time as its B2B unit has doubled revenues in a year. Mobile is driving the co... Read More

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Qyer users respond positively to French connections

By Martin Cowen | February 18, 2016

Destination consultancy Resonance has tried a different approach to analysing the Chinese outbound market by data-mining reviews posted onto Qyer.com. It looked at 1.2 million reviews of 94,000 at... Read More

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Choice Hotels opens a vacation rental platform to (kind of) compete with Airbnb

By Juliana Shallcross | February 18, 2016

Making good on its promise from last month, Choice Hotels confirmed that it will start offering vacation rentals. Choice Hotels CEO Steve Joyce had hinted at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit... Read More

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Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth

By Kevin May | February 18, 2016

Travelport hopes to strengthen its position as one of the leading hotel distributors after seeing its total number of booked room nights increased to 65 million in 2015. The company has no stated a... Read More

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Twitter offers Delta and other airlines customer support prompts

By Sean O'Neil | February 18, 2016

Airlines are among many companies that interact with customers via Twitter for customer service complaints. Today Twitter pulled the wraps off "customer support prompts," which should help airline sta... Read More

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Instart Logic acquires Kwicr, the mobile app accelerator

By Sean O'Neil | February 18, 2016

Given our mobile-first world, travel brands need to get their mobile user experience to come up to speed, literally (given Internet bandwidth variability). Enter, Instart Logic, a seller of mobile... Read More

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