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What keeps business travel experts awake at night?

By Kevin May | December 2, 2013

Not ill-fitting eye masks, anyway. This was the question handed to a group from various strands of the business travel world at the CAPA Summit in Amsterdam this week. It's a standard thing to ask Read More

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Tiger Airways hits GDS as Delta-ANZ debut rich content on Travelport

By Kevin May | November 25, 2013

Tiger Airways is joining the likes of EasyJet in Europe and abandoning its previous direct channel-only model and will be available on the GDS via Travelport. As well as allowing its fare and ancil Read More

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Priceline gets into inspiration game (thanks to Travelport)

By Kevin May | November 19, 2013

Priceline is the latest travel brand to try and re-engineer the way people get ideas for travel after integrating an inspiration engine provided by Travelport. The tool being rolled out on a new ve Read More

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Travelport creates iTunes-style Marketplace for agent applications

By Kevin May | November 14, 2013

Travelport is the latest travel technology company to create a platform similar to the Apple iTunes appstore so agency customers can download products and services. Travelport Marketplace is due to Read More

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Travel DISTRIBUTION roundup - Travelport, Sabre, BookIt, Eurolines, GTA, TravelClick

By PhocusWire | November 13, 2013

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION on Wednesday 13 November 2013... Transaero Airlines and Sabre sign new content deal Transaero Airlines and Sabre have sign Read More

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Travelport eyeing Beyond Air as key element for the future

By Kevin May | November 8, 2013

Almost a fifth of Travelport revenue is now coming from non-air (or "Beyond Air", as it now calls it) activities - indicating what the company hopes will be an ongoing shift away from "traditional" se Read More

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Travel DISTRIBUTION roundup - Orbitz, HRS, CarTrawler, Travelport, ClearTrip

By PhocusWire | October 30, 2013

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for DISTRIBUTION in travel, tourism and hospitality on Wednesday 30 October 2013... Orbitz to power hotel bookings for EVA Air Orbitz Partner Netw Read More

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Saudi Arabia leads booming Middle East online travel sector

By Linda Fox | October 30, 2013

Saudi Arabia is expecting online transactions to hit $1.9bn next year according to figures released by Travelport. If expectations are met, it would amount to a near doubling in web sales since 201 Read More

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Big travel data meets curious minds at THack Boston

By Nick Vivion | October 19, 2013

Tnooz has decamped to Boston for our latest THack, which is addressing an exciting and continually challenging area of the travel business: big travel data. With access to several large databases f Read More

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Getting hotel search on the web past the dreaded Meh

By Viewpoints | October 16, 2013

Let's face it - hotel search today is not very different today from the gunky prototypes that sprouted at the dawn of the internet. NB: This is a viewpoint by Max Rayner, a partner at Hudson Crossi Read More

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Travel agents increase use of GDS but hotel rate parity impacts booking preferences

By Karthick Prabu | October 15, 2013

There are two channels that travel agents use more than in the past - none other than the GDS and hotel/chain websites, reveals a study. Market research company Phoenix Marketing International and Read More

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Are you ready to demystify hotel metasearch?

By PhocusWire | October 10, 2013

[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8OhcnbMEc" video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/accommodation-search.jpg"] The world Read More

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Why the New Distribution Capability debate needs to move on

By Kevin May | October 4, 2013

The usual array of travel buyers, other intermediaries, suppliers, technology and distribution companies, lobbyists and industry groups were in the Czech capital of Prague last week. The annual GBT Read More

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Travel DISTRIBUTION roundup - Travelport, Amadeus, SiteMinder, Vayant

By Kevin May | October 2, 2013

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for DISTRIBUTION in travel, tourism and hospitality on Wednesday 2 October 2013... Travelport Universal API launches in Asia Travelport announce Read More

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Tnooz takes hackathons to a new level in travel [hint: we are using Big Data]

By Kevin May | September 30, 2013

If Big Data is the (valid, we think) buzzy phrase kicking about in travel, then perhaps it's time to let developers see what they can do with some of the industry's real data in a hackathon. Two an Read More

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