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This is what it feels like when a startup fails

By PhocusWire | June 25, 2014

STARTUPS: Travel startups, like newbies focusing on countless other industry verticals, fail fast and fail often (to coin a well-trodden phrase). You might assume over time, given the increasing num... Read More

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How much could consumer brands like Priceline disrupt the hotel technology market?

By Sean O'Neil | June 25, 2014

This month, Priceline Group has been dropping several pieces into the business-to-business (B2B) puzzle. Might a hotel booking engine be next? Several experts Tnooz interviewed say a major onlin... Read More

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TravelByDrone needs no explanation - view the world from user generated drone videos

By Kevin May | June 25, 2014

Going back a few years there were countless travel sites that fed in content to Google Maps from third parties. Championed by the likes of the Google Maps Mania blog for many years, integrating con... Read More

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Hotel consolidator JacTravel sold for $135 million to Vitruvian Partners

By Karthick Prabu | June 25, 2014

JacTravel, a UK-based hotel consolidator and inbound travel service provider, has been sold to private equity group Vitruvian Partners for $135 million. Vitruvian gets its hands on JacTravel from B... Read More

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HomeAway reaches one million listings, has eye on several million more

By Nick Vivion | June 25, 2014

Today marks a milestone for vacation rental company HomeAway, as the platform now features one million listings scattered across the globe. No other company in the vacation rentals vertical has man... Read More

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Skyscanner signals China intent via Youbibi acquisition (for its tech)

By Kevin May | June 25, 2014

Two years after entering the Chinese metasearch market, Skyscanner has performed another move with the acquisition of local competitor Youbibi. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Skyscanner l... Read More

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Moving airlines from Argos (minus the catalogue) to a grit-free web experience

By Linda Fox | June 24, 2014

Analogies describing the online travel experience are plentiful and yet Argos without the catalogue sticks in the mind as an image of what it can be like for users. The analogy comes from Comair ec... Read More

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Booking.com hotel white label product hints at Priceline's B2B ambitions

By Sean O'Neil | June 24, 2014

Online travel agency powerhouse Booking.com hasn't publicized its latest white-label product, which, unlike most of its past efforts, is aimed at hotels instead of affiliates. Marketing materials f... Read More

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Chinese online travel agents get ten times more reviews than actual review sites

By Karthick Prabu | June 24, 2014

Perhaps a surprise - user review giant TripAdvisor's Chinese brand DaoDao has fewer hotel reviews than online travel agencies in China. A PhoCusWright-BrandKarma study (Traveler Reviews and Social... Read More

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Jailing of journalists in Egypt triggers outrage against tourism board

By Kevin May | June 24, 2014

A political and media storm following the jailing of three journalists in Egypt is spilling over into anger against its tourism authority. Earlier this week three al-Jazeera reporters, Australian P... Read More

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Travel marketers - Google Universal Search shows more images, YouTube retains top spot

By Karthick Prabu | June 24, 2014

With constant changes to the way Google displays search results (Panda, Hummingbird), it is key for travel marketers to keep a check on new features and trends that might ultimately affect a company's... Read More

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Millennials overtake Generation X in vacation spending, says US survey

By Sean O'Neil | June 23, 2014

Millennials are vacationing more than before. Their annual holiday spending now even surpasses that of Generation X's. Roughly one out of four millennials are planning more overnight trips for leis... Read More

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Oracle buys hotel IT giant Micros Systems for $5.3 billion

By Kevin May | June 23, 2014

IT giant Oracle has planted its exceedingly large boots into the travel industry with the $5.3 billion acquisition today of Micros Systems. The deal, which will close during the second half of this... Read More

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TripAdvisor to let independent hotels get instant bookings via mobile

By Sean O'Neil | June 23, 2014

At some point between September and December, independent hotels will gain the ability to have travelers using TripAdvisor's metasearch tool book directly with them via TripAdvisor's mobile app and mo... Read More

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Flyover City Tours on iPhone create a drone-like destination guide

By Kevin May | June 23, 2014

Apple is testing all sorts of new features for the latest iteration of its operating system for iPhone and iPad. Some of the new additions to the platform were unveiled at the WWDC 2014 event earli... Read More

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