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Understanding two types of startup buyers

By PhocusWire | December 27, 2013

STARTUPS: Assuming (a big assumption, let's face it) a travel startup gets to the stage where it is considering some kind of exit, often the strategy is more complex and fraught with woes than any o... Read More

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Benefits and challenges for mobile payment for airlines

By Karthick Prabu | December 27, 2013

Mobile payments at airlines are now a key area of focus, with 57% of carriers estimating it will drive revenue equal to credit cards over the next two years. WorldPay, the airline payments and sett... Read More

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Reporter favourites of 2013 - Nick Vivion

By Nick Vivion | December 27, 2013

The implications of new technologies in travel, the potential for Bitcoin and realising the Internet of Things at London City Airport... This trio of articles were the most compelling for me during... Read More

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Did anger at Justine Sacco racist tweet accomplish anything?

By PhocusWire | December 24, 2013

SOCIAL: So-called Twitter storms, when a company or individual makes a faux pas and the network goes into collective anger mode, happen fairly regularly and will continue to take place. Justine Sacc... Read More

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JetBlue hops on the holiday season bandwagon to surprise travellers

By Karthick Prabu | December 24, 2013

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Why consumers may not like your travel images

By Viewpoints | December 24, 2013

Visual content is taking over on some of the best marketing practices in almost every industry, specially in tourism where travel images are powerful elements. NB: This is an analysis by Sabrina Lu... Read More

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Reporter favourites of 2013 - Sean O'Neill

By Sean O'Neil | December 24, 2013

Tracking travel shoppers across devices, airlines modernizing airfare distribution, and changing leadership at a major global distribution system... All of these rise to the top of my mind, looking... Read More

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Cracking the delivery code for email marketing

By PhocusWire | December 24, 2013

MARKETING: There is always plenty of advice around for businesses to figure out how to get more people to read their email marketing materials. But less is shared about the finer points of getting e... Read More

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Chinese write the most positive travel reviews (and use least number of words!)

By Karthick Prabu | December 24, 2013

Two-thirds of hotel guest travel reviews are positive and English-speaking travellers are the wordiest, reveals a study by ReviewPro. The online reputation management company analyzed over 15 milli... Read More

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Getting beyond the Trough of Sorrow for startups

By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013

STARTUPS: Who would be a startup, eh? Well, in the travel industry, despite the failure rates and difficulties with marketing and complex products, there are hundreds. HUNDREDS! Luckily there are a... Read More

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Holiday travel trends - searches, bookings and destinations [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Karthick Prabu | December 23, 2013

Travel brands across the globe are slicing and dicing data about their holiday travel trends (we're currently receiving up to three of these type press releases a day). nSight, a travel data aggreg... Read More

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The state of destination marketing in 2013

By Viewpoints | December 23, 2013

Heavily involved destination marketing, I attended over a dozen tourism conferences during 2013 on four continents, including our own SoMeT events. Looking back at the pictures I took and the prese... Read More

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Welcome to the borg - the future of telemarketing and customer service

By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013

SYSTEMS: Behind the scenes at countless ecommerce brands is often a sizeable (sometimes huge) department for interacting with customers the old way: AKA speaking to a human. But even this area of cu... Read More

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Off Track Planet raises $500,000 to build travel discovery platform

By Karthick Prabu | December 23, 2013

Off Track Planet, a travel guide service provider, has raised $500,000 in funding from Brandery Accelerator, CincyTech and other angel investors. This new fund will be used to to further expand its... Read More

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What is Social Media 3.0?

By PhocusWire | December 23, 2013

SOCIAL: Travel brands, perhaps as much or more than most other industries, have finally got to grips with and are capitalising on the power of social media - at least from an engagement and customer... Read More

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