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TLabs Showcase - GetFlight

By Kevin May | June 15, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Australia-based map-led flight search system GetFlight. Read More

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TLabs Showcase - Evature

By Kevin May | June 14, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Israel-based free-text travel search technology provider Evature. Read More

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Tnooz-Amadeus FREE webinar: 2011 - Where we've been, where we're going

By PhocusWire | June 9, 2011

We are now six months into 2011, a perfect time for a reality check on some of the big conversations taking place in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. Read More

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TripAdvisor still irked by Google and hotel reviews on Places

By Kevin May | June 6, 2011

TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer doesn't usually say very much on Twitter - but when he does it's usually pointed or relevant, in this case calling Google "slimy". Read More

News / Online

What are the most influential factors when buying travel?

By Kevin May | June 3, 2011

Some fascinating data from YPartnership in a study looking at the inspiration, research, search, shopping and buying of travel products by consumers. Read More

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MIT student creates travel hyperdrive, map-based for now

By Kevin May | May 27, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, feeder of brainiacs to ITA Software, is probably creating all sorts of mad pieces of kit that will enrich the travel experience in years to come. Read More

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Google flight search test not driven by ITA Software, probably OAG

By Kevin May | May 27, 2011

An experiment by Google to show flight journey times and airlines operating a route is to be rolled out more widely in the next few days - but not all is what it seems. Read More

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Google testing new display for flight search results

By Kevin May | May 24, 2011

Google is quietly trying out some new functionality around flight searches, using the UK as a test bed to display journey duration and available airlines. Read More

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TLabs Showcase - Linkdex

By Kevin May | May 23, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based cloud-led SEO service for travel, Linkdex. Read More

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Has Google started to fail travel marketers and users?

By Viewpoints | May 19, 2011

All businesses seek out marketing channels to help them reach out to customers, and that they can invest in over time. Read More

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One in five hotel searches come from mobile devices

By Kevin May | May 17, 2011

Google says it is already seeing 19% of all hotel queries in search being conducted on mobile devices, supporting the idea that mobile is now more important than ever in travel marketing. Read More

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TripAdvisor extends flight search to six new countries

By Kevin May | May 10, 2011

TripAdvisor launches its flight metasearch system outside of the US and UK for the first time today, with Ireland, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain joining in. Read More

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Facebook and YouTube tighten grip on social media

By Kevin May | May 8, 2011

If travel companies ever need proof why they should have a presence on YouTube and Facebook, it is here: the duo capture 75% of all visits to social networks in the UK. Read More

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Searches on Google - a language and global view

By Kevin May | May 6, 2011

Google developers having fun again, perhaps just to keep everyone else entertained over coffee. Now you can discover volume and language of searches on a spinning globe! Read More