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Hipmunk now powers Yahoo Travel; TimeshareAdvisor adds rentals; and more...

By PhocusWire | October 28, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for October 2014. Tuesday 28 October 2014 Hipmunk to power white-label search for Yahoo Travel... Read More

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TripAdvisor steps into personalization with Just For You hotel product

By Nick Vivion | October 28, 2014

Personalization continues to be pursued relentlessly in travel, from legitimate attempts to tailor products to more murky user-based pricing manipulations. TripAdvisor is stepping into the personal... Read More

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Yelp continues European growth strategy with acquisition of CityVox

By Nick Vivion | October 28, 2014

Yelp is clearly executing a growth strategy via acquisitions in Europe. The company has folllowed last week's purchase of Restaurant-Kritik with an acquisition of France's biggest review site, Cityvox... Read More

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RIP web marketing and six other digital marketing trends

By Viewpoints | October 28, 2014

I live and breathe internet marketing. I don't have any hidden powers or know something that is not already public knowledge. I just like to ponder and hypothesize what the future might be, identifyin... Read More

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Alibaba earthquake: new travel URL, signs Agoda, ApplePay hint

By Martin Cowen | October 28, 2014

Alibaba Group is setting its considerable sights on the Chinese online travel sector - and Ctrip in particular - with a new brand, alitrip.com, launched to replace Taobao Travel. But maybe of grea... Read More

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Ola follows expansion drive with massive funding round

By Linda Fox | October 28, 2014

Cab booking application Ola (formerly Olacabs) has confirmed a Series D funding round of $210 million. A statement from the India-based service says the startup,which was founded in 2011, has confi... Read More

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The online travel brand is dead - discuss

By Kevin May | October 28, 2014

One of the fun, ten-minute debate sessions at the WebinTravel conference in Singapore this week asked that exact, if rather simplistic, question. It is, of course, a far more complex question than... Read More

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The real reason why metasearch engines are taking bookings on mobile - the conversion gap

By Kevin May | October 27, 2014

There is plenty (perhaps too much) talk about the mobile revolution in the travel industry. Still, one thing to be grateful for now is at least we appear to have stopped saying "20xx is the year of... Read More

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Sabre inks with South African Airways, Travelport signs WestJet, HotelsClick gets TripAdvisor, and more...

By PhocusWire | October 27, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for October 2014. Tuesday 28 October 2014: Sabre agrees new distribution partnership with S... Read More

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Expedia Inc's Hotels.com regrets its SEO email to travel bloggers

By Sean O'Neil | October 27, 2014

Earlier this month, some travel bloggers received a message from a person with an e-mail address at the online travel agency Hotels.com. It had an intriguing offer. The final sentence, including it... Read More

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eDreams Odigeo shares resume trading, analysts react

By Sean O'Neil | October 27, 2014

Shares in European online travel agency conglomerate eDreams Odigeo resumed trading Monday on the Madrid stock exchange. The move came after the shock of last Friday, when its share price fell 59%... Read More

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How travel brands are using platform discrimination to adjust pricing

By Nick Vivion | October 27, 2014

A recent research report out of Northeastern University has looked at a few travel brands to determine how pricing is impacted by various characteristics of a particular user's session. The statist... Read More

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Five questions to help marketers solve the metasearch dilemma

By Viewpoints | October 27, 2014

Metasearch continues to be one of the hottest topics for the hospitality industry. We have already written two articles about metasearch this year and hosted a webinar with Tnooz to give greater insi... Read More

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Ex-Hotwire president breathes life into DealBase

By Sean O'Neil | October 27, 2014

DealBase, the hotel discount comparison search site that spun off Silicon Valley sensation HotelTonight, is being revived by a new CEO, Clem Bason. Bason was president for four years at Hotwire, th... Read More

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WeSwap to expand to key markets following Series A round

By Linda Fox | October 27, 2014

Currency exchange marketplace WeSwap has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The round, which follows beta testing of the peer-to-peer service , was led by IW Capital and supported by EC1 Capi... Read More

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