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OnTheBeach buys Sunshine.co.uk for £12 million
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OnTheBeach buys Sunshine.co.uk for £12 million
By Martin Cowen | May 10, 2017
London-listed beach holidays specialist OnTheBeach has bought the "highly complementary"... Read More
Priceline Group bookings soar by a quarter to hit $20 billion in three months
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Priceline Group bookings soar by a quarter to hit $20 billion in three months
By Kevin May | May 9, 2017
The Priceline Group has seen gross bookings across the group for the first quarter of 2017 hit a... Read More
Airbnb seen as cheapest option for accommodation by many millennials
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Airbnb seen as cheapest option for accommodation by many millennials
By Kevin May | May 9, 2017
Either the marketing continues to wow younger travellers or it is correct that Airbnb is the cheaper... Read More
Travelport credits Asia-Pacific for early-2017 financial gains
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Travelport credits Asia-Pacific for early-2017 financial gains
By Kevin May | May 9, 2017
Travelport has hailed a "positive start" to the year with a 7% increase in revenue across the business... Read More
Travel Republic looks to personalisation with bd4travel
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Travel Republic looks to personalisation with bd4travel
By Linda Fox | May 9, 2017
Travel Republic has joined up with data analytics specialist bd4travel to build "personalised shopping... Read More
Technology could improve your brand reputation, but are you using it wrong?
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Technology could improve your brand reputation, but are you using it wrong?
By Marisa Garcia | May 8, 2017
Air travel could be better, and technology could deliver that, but only if the customer is at the... Read More
Content marketing - the new search?
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Content marketing - the new search?
By Viewpoints | May 5, 2017
Since the early days of “search”, travel brands have led the way in building new business models that... Read More
Multi-modal needs big guns of travel to hit next level
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Multi-modal needs big guns of travel to hit next level
By Kevin May | May 5, 2017
The emergence of multi-modal travel search engines has so far not really attracted the large players... Read More
TripTease shifts focus to direct booking and service management
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TripTease shifts focus to direct booking and service management
By Kevin May | May 3, 2017
Direct-booking champion TripTease is opening what it hopes will be another weapon in the arsenal of... Read More
Five rules for creating effective landing pages on a travel website
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Five rules for creating effective landing pages on a travel website
By Viewpoints | May 2, 2017
When potential customers arrive on your landing pages, you want to make sure they don’t take off... Read More
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