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TouristPath wants to be the world's largest tourism database with social travel planning thrown in

By Linda Fox | February 12, 2013

Frustrated with the lengthy process of trying to research travel on the internet TouristPath's founders decided to attempt organising the sector via a massive travel and tourism information database Read More

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Dcovery wants to be the Evernote for travel by organising destination research

By Linda Fox | December 23, 2012

Dcovery is a mobile application which helps users organise their travel research. Read More

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The trav-olution begins again? Desti brings Siri-like personal assistant into the travel ecosystem

By Nick Vivion | November 9, 2012

Desti joins the ranks of travel startups claiming to be on the path to "travel nirvana" with their Siri-spawned travel planning iPad app. Read More

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Trip planning by video -- Brazil takes vacation research to YouTube and mobile game

By Dennis Schaal | March 20, 2012

Chalk one up for Brazilian tourism board Embratur in getting creative about travel inspiration and trip planning. Read More

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Gtrot shifts from travel planning to city discovery

By Dennis Schaal | March 7, 2012

Travel planning site Gtrot is communicating to members and in social media that it is shifting its from travel planning to city discovery. Read More

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Travelomy brings geo-location and real-time updates to travel guides

By Kevin May | January 29, 2012

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring India-based Travelomy, a travel guide using real-time updates and geo-location for the South Asia region. Read More

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Facebook enables users to add travel apps to their Timelines

By Dennis Schaal | January 19, 2012

Facebook says it gavel its users the ability to add Facebook apps from Where I've Been, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Gogobot and Wipolo to their Facebook Timelines. Read More

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Rearden Commerce has a Storyboard and hopes streamlined search will be refreshing

By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011

Rearden Commerce is conducting a private beta for a travel-planning collaboration tool which it hopes will streamline travel search and make it more personalized. Read More

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Survey: Business travelers go mobile and do travel planning at destination

By Dennis Schaal | November 14, 2011

Business travelers do much of their travel planning through their corporate travel programs, but once they are on the road they do a lot ofresearch on their mobile devices in-destination. Read More

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My Destination wins £1M investment round

By Kevin May | November 4, 2011

Trip planner and content platform My Destination has secured a £1 million funding round, in a move it says values the company at £10 million. Read More

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Travel and cutting edge technology of the future [VIDEO]

By Kevin May | November 1, 2011

Okay, so there's mobile travel as we know it today and then there's mobile travel taken to the extreme, probably some time in the reasonably near future. Read More

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Not just hotel reviews: TripAdvisor now emphasizes traveler photos

By Dennis Schaal | September 27, 2011

If you liked or disliked TripAdvisor's hotel reviews, you now have traveler-taken photos to consider. Read More

The future of augmented reality

By Kevin May | October 1, 2010

Augmented reality development company Metaio hosted a conference in Germany recently to showcase some new functionality and where the technology is heading. Read More

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Yahoo launches travel guides for Philippines travelers

By Dennis Schaal | September 23, 2010

Yahoo partnered with several content providers to introduce travel-planning tools on its Yahoo Travel Philippines website. Read More

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Knapsack goes old school, releases trip planning desktop software

By Kevin May | August 20, 2010

Easy to forget that once upon a time often the best user experience was found on desktop software products, overshadowing the timid functionality of the web. Read More

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