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Web service launches to reimburse travellers for rain or lack of sun

By Kevin May | July 27, 2010

Meteobonus, a new online service to reward travellers during holiday wash-outs or an abundance of dark clouds, has its first industry partner in SmartWings. Read More

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Frommer's to provide content for WomansDay.com travel tab

By Dennis Schaal | June 22, 2010

WomansDay, with its almost 1.6 million unique visitors per month, plans to create a travel tab, featuring content from Frommer's Unlimited. Read More

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Lonely Planet realises FREE is quite a good idea, claims three million downloads in a week

By Kevin May | April 23, 2010

Guidebook giant Lonely Planet may be seeing the error of its ways in the most dramatic way possible after scrapping the price for some of its iPhone city guides this week. Read More

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Apple wants to be the ultimate travel assistant with iTravel

By Kevin May | April 22, 2010

If it wasn't enough that Google is rumoured to buying travel technology company ITA Software, then this next move by Apple may just finish a few people off completely. Read More

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Digital travel brochures - is Discover Ireland getting it right?

By Kevin May | January 15, 2010

On the one hand there are a plethora of travel content websites, which obviously allow users to print information, while on the other there are pre-printed brochures on the shelves of offline travel... Read More

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Many more travel planning websites planned for 2010

By Dennis Schaal | December 24, 2009

This is not a 2010 prediction, but a certainty: Many more travel planning, research and metasearch websites are planned for 2010. This crowded field promises to get more crowded. For example,... Read More

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Out of chaos, The New York Times offers hope for travel

By Dennis Schaal | December 4, 2009

At this moment, around 1:10 p.m. EST on Dec. 4, 2009, The New York Times article, Organizing the Chaos of Online Travel Tips, by Riva Richmond, is the #1 most e-mailed story on the newspaper's website.... Read More

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