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Why fly without wifi?
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July 5, 2013
For years, air travellers were happy to turn off phones and other devices, tuck into their peanuts, flick through the inflight magazine and watch a film....
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Budget hotel brand with heavy technology mix unveiled, looks for hipsters and savvy business folk
By Karthick Prabu
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July 5, 2013
Budget chain Premier Inn is to launch a new hotel brand - Hub by Premier - with an abundance of technology being pushed as one of its main selling points....
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Drum roll, drum roll - which country has the best reputation?
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July 4, 2013
If reputations are like shadows, as US president Abraham Lincoln wrote, which country casts the longest one?...
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Peace with honour - an idea to bring harmony to the world of airline distribution?
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
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July 4, 2013
Détente, meeting of minds? I am going to hypothesize how the industry as a whole can get behind the ideas surrounding IATA's NDC and find some common ground for moving forward....
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Five critical elements to building a large and engaged Facebook audience in the travel industry
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July 4, 2013
Every travel marketer wants a big and active social media audience. Who wouldn’t?...
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Ecompter launches to drive good carbon behaviour in the hotel industry
By Linda Fox
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July 4, 2013
Ecompter lives to help hotels shout about their environmental initiatives in a factual way based around a C02 calculator...
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Yep, it's in your head: Train window adverts bring silent audio ads to commuters
By Nick Vivion
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July 4, 2013
The commercialization of pretty much every avenue of life, both online and off, continues with this latest advertising innovation: using vibrations to create advertising that can only be hears when resting against a train window....
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Microsoft gives a 3D feel to touch-screen devices
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July 3, 2013
Microsoft, creator of the massive Touch interface a few years back, has released details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated....
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Nezasa promises a novel travel booking engine, packaged with passion
By Nick Vivion
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July 3, 2013
A new entry into the travel startup scene is Nezasa, an online booking service dedicated to more bespoke travel experiences traditionally created and curated by full-service offline agencies....
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WorldMate brings a UX twist to its mobile flight check-in feature [VIDEO]
By Sean O'Neil
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July 3, 2013
WorldMate has set the user-experience (UX) bar higher for day-of-travel, itinerary management apps when it comes to interacting with online check-in forms....
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Southwest ups ante for in-flight entertainment with free streaming TV on devices
By Nick Vivion
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July 3, 2013
Southwest Airlines has partnered with television provider DISH Networks to offer free streaming live television to passengers' WiFi-enabled devices....
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Using app store love to make your mobile app shine
By Linda Fox
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July 3, 2013
Getting consumers to notice your mobile application when the majority of apps are never even downloaded is no mean feat....
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How to use data to bring content to life
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July 3, 2013
If you were going to ask your CEO for more inbound marketing budget this year, which argument would be more convincing:...
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Can there be Kumbaya between airlines and Global Distribution Systems with NDC?
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
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July 3, 2013
This is first article in a two parter on distribution and the airlines. In the first part I am going to try to cut through some of the partisan rhetoric and focus on why NDC is such an important issue for the whole industry....
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Yahoo continues to shop, buys travel favourite and story-telling video app Qwiki
By Karthick Prabu
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July 3, 2013
Yahoo's buying spree continuous, this time it has acquired US-based Qwiki, an iPhone app that creates story-telling videos by using pictures and videos in user's mobile....
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