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LocalMind purchase next step on Airbnb's path to local domination

By Nick Vivion | December 17, 2012

Montreal-based Localmind has announced that it has been acquired by Airbnb last week, the second acquisition by Airbnb in 4 months demonstrating the company's continued pursuit of dominance in the local... Read More

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Experience Flight brings sky-high tours and activities back down to earth

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012

Australia's Experience Flight is a portal for tours-and-activities that are in the sky, from joy rides on private planes, sky diving trips and hot-air balloon rides. Read More

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Airbnb moving in to tours and activities? An obvious strategy to continue its disruptive model

By Daniele Beccari | December 10, 2012

Airbnb, the most talked about travel startup of 2012, is taking a close look at adding local activities to run alongside the home booking service. Read More

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Another travel startup story: Why iGottaGuide failed

By Viewpoints | November 28, 2012

iGottaGuide was my first scalable technology startup. Prior to working with my co-founder and developer Michael Griffiths, we both had extensive experience in service-based businesses. Read More

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MapQuest ramps up travel services with Pinterest-style Discover planning and sharing platform

By Kevin May | November 12, 2012

Considered by many to be a forgotten service after the emergence of Google Maps in recent years, MapQuest wants to fight back and muscle in on the world of travel planning. Read More

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Travelport offers tours and activities to agents, FlexTrip and AdventureLink feeding Rooms & More

By Kevin May | November 11, 2012

More evidence that the tour and activity sector is finally going mainstream, with Travelport giving agents tools to sell products from suppliers direct to leisure travellers. Read More

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The next big travel technology opportunity: a mobile-only booking giant for tours and activities

By Viewpoints | November 6, 2012

At the Travel Business Academy, a professional online course teaching entrepreneurs how to start a travel business, we have been researching and analyzing the in-destination mobile app travel business. Read More

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Another leap forward in tours and activities as Gray Line reveals live availability push

By Linda Fox | November 2, 2012

In a second firm signal in as many days that the online tours and activities sector is about to be transformed, Gray Line has announced a partnership with TourCMS. Read More

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Expedia ups the ante in tours and activities, major focus on helping suppliers and intermediaries

By Kevin May | November 1, 2012

Expedia is set to make a massive push into the tours, activities and things-to-do sector, with a major strategy to give suppliers the tools for distribution and marketing. Read More

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Big tech alert: Long tail markets may leapfrog traditional travel retailers

By Viewpoints | October 24, 2012

A recent Tnooz post explored why web bookings for mainstream tours and activities such as bus tours are still "largely a dream" and focused on operational issues such as the use of vouchers by tour... Read More

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Tours and activities: instant web bookings still largely a dream

By Alex Kremer | October 11, 2012

When one reads articles like Tnooz's recent piece on Foursquare accepting instant restaurant bookings, it's easy to jump to the conclusion (as our dear editor did) that tours and activities must be... Read More

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Mobile, maps, travel and the Walk-In Economy

By Viewpoints | October 8, 2012

The War of the Maps (Worlds? Ha!) between Apple and Google is that the struggle is not about immediate revenue, it is about ownership of geo-behavioral data and overall strategic positioning Read More

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Foursquare takes restaurant bookings - how long until it locates late hotels and activities?

By Kevin May | October 1, 2012

FourSquare is moving further away from its quirky gaming debut a few years back to something, well, more useful - bookings for destination service such as restaurants. Read More

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TripFab kind of came through on its promise - but ironically found itself down the toilet instead

By Kevin May | September 28, 2012

Entrepreneurs are generally not particularly shy people and sometimes they even border on the arrogant. It goes with the territory - he or she who shouts the loudest gets noticed. Read More

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What people in 1899 thought would happen to travel technology [hint: we failed them]

By Kevin May | September 4, 2012

Predicting how technology will evolve over the course of the next 12 months (as Tnooz tries every year) is tricky enough - but what about 100 years into the future? Read More

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