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Madness of search engine results in travel - The Bali Edition
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Madness of search engine results in travel - The Bali Edition
By Kevin May | June 22, 2012
Search engine results in travel, like the products themselves, are often far from perfect. But sometimes the results are just beyond any rational explanation. Read More
Three take aways for online travel in search engine visibility
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Three take aways for online travel in search engine visibility
By Linda Fox | June 21, 2012
There's lots of insightful stuff in Epiphany's report into the travel sector so we'll just dwell a while on three conclusions from the study Read More
Triometric goes after online travel with inventory management system
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Triometric goes after online travel with inventory management system
By Linda Fox | June 12, 2012
Triometric is opening up its inventory availability management technology which was originally developed in conjunction with a select few travel players including lastminute.com and GTA Read More
The importance of branding in travel search
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The importance of branding in travel search
By Viewpoints | June 4, 2012
We are frequently told by leading industry thinkers that social convergence with search is the big thing to take care of in 2012, and to a certain extent that is true – but it is just part of a larger... Read More
What is driving the online impulse hotel buyer? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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What is driving the online impulse hotel buyer? [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | May 30, 2012
Listen to the likes of Hotel Tonight in the US and Blink Booking in Europe and they will tell you that you the same-day booking via mobile model is becoming a major force. Read More
Google gets more local and social with Google+ Local
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Google gets more local and social with Google+ Local
By Dennis Schaal | May 30, 2012
Google is making search more local and social by adding a Local tab to Google+ and also integrating information from your social networking friends plus Zagat restaurant and hotel reviews across Google... Read More
Rome2Rio grabs $450,000 investment round, appoints ex-Viator boss as interim CEO
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Rome2Rio grabs $450,000 investment round, appoints ex-Viator boss as interim CEO
By Kevin May | May 29, 2012
Multi-modal travel search startup Rome2Rio has secured $450,000 in seed funding and brought in seasoned industry figure Rod Cuthbert to act as its interim CEO. Read More
Wego buys into Valadoo social-led deal site
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Wego buys into Valadoo social-led deal site
By Kevin May | May 28, 2012
Wego has made a strategic investment in Indonesian startup Valadoo in a bid to consolidate its position in the country and expand the travel deal site elsewhere. Read More
Fill ya boots, screenscapers - Ryanair has removed its reCAPTCHA tool
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Fill ya boots, screenscapers - Ryanair has removed its reCAPTCHA tool
By Kevin May | May 25, 2012
Temporarily, anyway. Ryanair made a big thing in late-2011 about its attempts to crack down on metasearch engines scraping content to fill their search results for airlines. Read More
Aah, those were the days - starting an online travel brand in 2002 compared to 2012
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Aah, those were the days - starting an online travel brand in 2002 compared to 2012
By Viewpoints | May 25, 2012
The heady days of 2002, post-economic bubbles and 9/11, pre-Iraq war and the credit crunch. Seems a long time ago, especially in online travel. Read More
How to unlock Big Data to make it big in value for the travel industry
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How to unlock Big Data to make it big in value for the travel industry
By Viewpoints | May 16, 2012
Data is always plural, and it can be big in many ways. Huge, enormous, gigantic, epic - you get the idea. Read More
Skyscanner tries metasearch for package holidays again
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Skyscanner tries metasearch for package holidays again
By Kevin May | May 9, 2012
Skyscanner has reintroduced search for package holidays from the likes of Thomas Cook and OnTheBeach, three years after abandoning its previous effort. Read More
Cost and value of hotel marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Cost and value of hotel marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | May 7, 2012
So what happened to commissions and bookings when hotels saw online as a significant distribution channel? Does exposure on social networks make any major difference? Read More
Wait, what is this? Expedia powers new GoogleDeal website
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Wait, what is this? Expedia powers new GoogleDeal website
By Kevin May | May 4, 2012
Just for fun. A headline to send its fellow members of the FairSearch anti-Google lobbying group running to the hills in horror, but Expedia is indeed helping run a site called GoogleDeal. Read More
Local is the new black in travel search
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Local is the new black in travel search
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | May 4, 2012
What is local? Metasearch has not had a huge amount of luck with developing operations in local markets. Read More
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