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HNA Group spends another $450 million, buys into Brazil's Azul Airlines

By Martin Cowen | November 25, 2015

A European holiday park operator, a Chinese package tours specialist and now a South American airline - China's HNA Group has had a busy fortnight on the global acquisition trail. Its latest deal s... Read More

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Booking.com tells hotels it's not a zero-sum game

By Sean O'Neil | November 25, 2015

Pepijn Rijvers knows more than most about Booking.com's meteoric rise. Last April, Rijvers became CMO of Europe's largest online travel company, which also happens to be the key engine behind Price... Read More

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eDreams Odigeo strategy begins to pay off

By Linda Fox | November 24, 2015

eDreams Odigeo says it continues to make progress against the strategy it identified in June which includes a mobile focus, revenue diversification and customer experience improvements. Reporting h... Read More

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Managed Travel 3.0, in a nutshell [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | November 24, 2015

Thank goodness that large swathes of the industry have finally accepted that corporate travel is changing beyond recognition. And, furthermore, there's very little they can do about it. But this... Read More

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Indies offered more ways to fight back in hotel distribution battle

By Kevin May | November 24, 2015

A few announcements kicking about this week to illustrate how it's not all about the big chains when it comes to the evolution of hotel distribution. The year has largely been dominated by the move... Read More

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Group tours lead the way for Tuniu

By Martin Cowen | November 24, 2015

Tuniu.com's packaging business is seeing triple-digit volume growth with organized tours more popular than self-guided trips. Its Q3 earnings statement was released a few hours after it announced H... Read More

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Why total revenue management is like spinning plates

By Pamela Whitby | November 24, 2015

There is really only one thing that hotel people need to remember: that they are in the service business. NB This is a viewpoint by Pamela Whitby, editor of EyeForTravel. “We are the hospitality... Read More

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Sabre acquires Trust International for $154 million

By Kevin May | November 24, 2015

Sabre is to buy the Trust Group for $154 million, a deal that will include mothership Trust International, InnLink and Nexus. Trust International is the well-known reservation system provider for h... Read More

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Standards can ease the online travel industry's problems

By Viewpoints | November 24, 2015

What is the most painful problem the travel industry has today? NB This is a viewpoint by Maksim Izmaylov, founder and CEO of roomstorm.com. For the majority of airlines and hotels it is the fee... Read More

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Those Google stages of travel applied to mobile

By Linda Fox | November 24, 2015

Google has been increasingly pushing micro-moments in recent months - those times when consumers turn to mobile for quick information and how marketers can take advantage. The search giant has han... Read More

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An Expedia with Asian characteristics

By Sean O'Neil | November 23, 2015

Dara Khosrowshahi admits that Expedia Inc's investment in Chinese subsidiary eLong was a money pit, and that he was glad he sold his company's stake in it for $671 million earlier this year. In a r... Read More

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TripAdvisor finds a home for the Rove platform - on its app

By Kevin May | November 23, 2015

Lots of companies are often swallowed up whole by larger players in the travel sector, never to be seen or heard of again. But for every Ruba (Google, May 2010), Zoombu (Skyscanner, January 2011) o... Read More

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Does the tour and activity space need to be owned?

By Stephen Joyce | November 23, 2015

The tour and activity space is undergoing a transformation. After years of being seen as the ugly duckling of the travel industry (or as the add-ons that seldom actually get added on to a flight or... Read More

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Consensual hallucination (or the state of investment in travel startups)

By Linda Fox | November 23, 2015

Here's the context: giants in the travel investment world, Joel Cutler and Priceline Group's Glenn Fogel, are on a panel discussing everything from unicorns, elevator pitches, exits and much in betwee... Read More

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HNA pumps $500 million into Tuniu

By Martin Cowen | November 23, 2015

Another half-a-billion-dollar deal in China to start the week, as HNA Tourism confirms an equity investment and strategic co-operation agreement with Tuniu.com. The announcement says that HNA Touri... Read More

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