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Only way for Lufthansa surcharge to succeed is if other airlines follow dangerous path

By Kevin May | October 8, 2015

Lufthansa may be "standing firm" on its controversial surcharge and denying any significant impact so far, but the wagons of the move's opponents are circling. At the CAPA World Aviation Summit in... Read More

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Hackathon in Hamburg to offer IATA's next-gen APIs for air travel

By Sean O'Neil | October 8, 2015

Tnooz brings its THack roadshow to Hamburg, Germany, our third continent for a hackathon in as many months. This hackathon will get its hands on next-generation APIs to solve digital problems that... Read More

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How to race ahead with programmatic advertising

By Viewpoints | October 7, 2015

Programmatic advertising is one of the fastest digital marketing channels today. NB This is a viewpoint by Stuart Hobbs, marketing director for Admedo. At its most basic, programmatic advertisin... Read More

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Finding the right balance between personalisation and search

By Viewpoints | October 7, 2015

John Wanamaker famously said, "We know that 50% of our advertising is wasted, we just don’t know which 50%." Today, you could easily replace that figure with 98%, when it comes to online marketing.... Read More

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Lufthansa's Bischof stands firm on DCC fee for GDS tickets

By Sean O'Neil | October 6, 2015

Jens Bischof, chief commercial officer at Lufthansa Group, did a webinar today with American travel managers in which he repeated the German airline's commitment to its controversial Euro 16 Distribut... Read More

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eDreams hits back over Ryanair claims it is misleading consumers on Google

By Kevin May | October 6, 2015

UPDATE: eDreams has responded with a strong rebuke of Ryanair's statement earlier today. “eDreams notes Ryanair’s latest attack on the fast-growing online travel agency (‘OTA’) sector. As an OTA,... Read More

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HotelTonight moves into Dubai, targets 25 percent unfilled rooms

By Kevin May | October 6, 2015

Late-booking mobile service HotelTonight is targeting the desert city of Dubai for its first foray into the Middle East. The San Francisco, US-based company now has a presence in 35 countries aroun... Read More

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Selling travel digitally in Europe just got trickier if you are in the US

By Sean O'Neil | October 6, 2015

A 15-year-old deal that permits companies to transfer customer data from the European Union to the United States has been ruled invalid by Europe's highest legal authority, the European Court of Justi... Read More

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RouteHappy hits Sabre, aspires to be the standard for airline rich content

By Linda Fox | October 6, 2015

RouteHappy says it is exploring ways to bring its flight product information to agency system Sabre Red Workspace as well as eventually GetThere and mobile app TripCase. Robert Albert, chief execut... Read More

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Interview: Wu on Alitrip, Alibaba's travel site, and Chinese outbound travel

By Sean O'Neil | October 6, 2015

It was a year ago this month that Alibaba, a giant Chinese e-commerce company, rebranded its travel booking website as Alitrip (去啊) -- which it then made an independent business unit. To find out t... Read More

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Yo ho ho hotels, is your website ready for Christmas?

By Viewpoints | October 6, 2015

Like it or not, the cards and gift wrap are already in the shops. Christmas is coming and, like traditional high-street retailers, hotels should start "tinselling up" their own digital shop windows.... Read More

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Harvard Business Review's odd case study about Room Key and hotel distribution

By Sean O'Neil | October 5, 2015

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) plans to publish a fictionalized case study about hotel distribution, and it has been teasing a version of the article on its website. It's written by two well-reg... Read More

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OTA group claims most Americans find OTAs safe to use

By Sean O'Neil | October 5, 2015

Earlier today we reported that the American Hotel & Lodging Association had released a study saying that 15 million online bookings in the US have been affected by “deceptive rogue affiliates” --... Read More

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Travelport acquires CETS and TraviAustria

By Kevin May | October 5, 2015

CETS, a tour operator booking platform in Central Europe, has been bought by Travelport as part of a wider deal to acquire its local distributor in Austria. Terms of the agreement to acquire Vienna... Read More

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Hotel group claims millions of online bookings every year are scams

By Kevin May | October 5, 2015

The American Hotel & Lodging Association has claimed 15 million online hotel bookings in the US alone have been affected by "deceptive rogue affiliates". The lobbying group obviously has a vest... Read More

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