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Travelport Digital synchs Locomote with MTT
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Travelport Digital synchs Locomote with MTT
By Martin Cowen | September 22, 2016
Travelport is ramping up not only the international presence of its Australian corporate travel... Read More
Plateno opens platform to European hotels wanting access to China outbound
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Plateno opens platform to European hotels wanting access to China outbound
By Martin Cowen | September 21, 2016
Chinese hotel group Plateno is helping European hotels access Chinese outbound travellers through its... Read More
Startup pitch: Sonder raises $10 million for serviced home rentals
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Startup pitch: Sonder raises $10 million for serviced home rentals
By Sean O'Neil | September 20, 2016
Short-term rentals are more interesting than cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms. But the service quality... Read More
Ancillary revenue study features GDS agreements
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Ancillary revenue study features GDS agreements
By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016
The CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorks Company has been released in full and includes,... Read More
The Standard becomes another hotel group offering an OTA-like marketplace
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The Standard becomes another hotel group offering an OTA-like marketplace
By Sean O'Neil | September 20, 2016
It was a year ago that AccorHotels began selling independent hotels alongside its own properties on... Read More
Taxi app funding back in business with Grab grabbing $750 million
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Taxi app funding back in business with Grab grabbing $750 million
By Martin Cowen | September 20, 2016
Southeast Asia's ride-hailing platform Grab has completed the region's largest ever consumer tech... Read More
Google debuts Trips, a mobile app to plan travel itineraries faster
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Google debuts Trips, a mobile app to plan travel itineraries faster
By Sean O'Neil | September 19, 2016
Today Google launches its first all-in-one travel app, Google Trips. The free app aims to be a... Read More
Restaurants eating up CPC budgets
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Restaurants eating up CPC budgets
By Martin Cowen | September 16, 2016
SimilarWeb has found that the most-expensive desktop keyword in travel is "restaurants near me",... Read More
Startup pitch: Tripcon offers natural-language metasearch, Tokyo-style
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Startup pitch: Tripcon offers natural-language metasearch, Tokyo-style
By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2016
Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices... Read More
Travelport updates how it describes its growth strategies
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Travelport updates how it describes its growth strategies
By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2016
Travelport, which went public in 2014, said on Thursday in a financial filing in the US that one of... Read More
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