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Expedia readies TripAdvisor spinoff citing hotel review reliability

By Dennis Schaal | November 22, 2011

As Expedia shareholders get set to vote Dec. 6 on the TripAdvisor spinoff, Expedia is telling potential investors that travelers overwhelmingly find TripAdvisor's user reviews to be reliable. Read More

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How to combat Fake Review Optimization in travel

By Viewpoints | November 21, 2011

The first installment of this series showed how social media and search engine optimization aligned to create an environment that rewards hotels with high customer ratings. Read More

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Orbitz Worldwide usurps Travelocity as AOL Travel primary partner

By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2011

Orbitz Worldwide disrupted Travelocity's more than decade-old relationship with AOL Travel and will become the portal's primary travel brand. Read More

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Travellution attracts seed funding, launches public platform

By Linda Fox | November 17, 2011

Travel social network Travellution has revealed seed funding of between Euros 100,000 and 200,000. Read More

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TownWizard takes local events and information to mobile apps and websites

By Kevin May | November 17, 2011

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based TownWizard, a hyper-local event and information platform for mobiles and the web. Read More

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Facebook: Wisdom of Friends replacing Wisdom of Crowds in travel

By Kevin May | November 16, 2011

Facebook has turned into the new Google (in many, many respects) - and when it speaks, pretty much the entire business world has a tendency to listen. Read More

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Social-led trip planning travel startups - more questions than answers

By Kevin May | November 15, 2011

What is it about the idea of social media, trip planning, content-filled sites that seems to attract dozens of bright young things to the travel industry? Read More

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Trippy raises $1.75 million in first round of outside investment

By Kevin May | November 15, 2011

Mobile and web trip planning platform Trippy has captured a $1.75 million round of investment, led by Sequoia Capital and True Ventures. Read More

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Tnooz-Sabre FREE Webinar: Mobile and social media - sort the facts from the hype

By Kevin May | November 15, 2011

With the rapid advancements in mobile and social media, travel companies often find themselves struggling to separate hype from fact. Read More

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Alert move: Travelocity to tweets from airports about Thanksgiving travel

By Dennis Schaal | November 15, 2011

Travelocity is getting very social about the Thanksgiving travel crush this year as it will be tweeting various updates from five of the busiest airports in the US. Read More

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Fake Review Optimization - How black hat masters beat the travel system

By Viewpoints | November 15, 2011

The first instalment covered the fusion of social media and search engine optimization, creating an environment that rewards hotels with high customer ratings. Read More

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Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012

By Kevin May | November 14, 2011

Two-thirds of travel companies will spend more of their precious marketing budgets on social media next year, while over half will also target mobile channels. Read More

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Travel businesses pledge to spend more on social media and mobile in 2012

By Kevin May | November 14, 2011

Two-thirds of travel companies will spend more of their precious marketing budgets on social media next year, while over half will also target mobile channels. Read More

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Marriott launches Discover ExecuStay blog with public relations exec as guest blogger

By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011

Marriott ExecuStay launched a Discover ExecuStay blog and the first "guest blogger" is a public relations executive who works for the Marriott mothership. Read More