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Now you can book travel by speaking to Kayak, via Amazon's Alexa

By Sean O'Neil | May 10, 2016

The travel industry is talking a lot about voice-powered search these days, thanks in part to Alexa -- a personal assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to understand simple v Read More

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Age of flying bots - what airlines should do in 2016

By Viewpoints | May 6, 2016

Airlines will be one of the first sectors to push into messaging-driven experiences, as shown by KLM’s bot launched at Facebook’s F8 Conference last month. NB: This is an analysis by Nadav Gur, fou Read More

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Priceline Group brings attention back to performance, 2016 bookings hit $16.7 billion

By Kevin May | May 4, 2016

Putting turbulence over its recently resigned CEO aside momentarily, Priceline Group today posted revenues of $2.1 billion for the first quarter of 2016. The group saw the exit of president and CEO Read More

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Kayak moves into restaurant search, makes a u-turn on activities

By Kevin May | April 18, 2016

Kayak has confirmed it will soon be launching products for travellers looking for places to eat, and tours and activities. The things-to-do channel will launch with a number of supply partners incl Read More

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Slack adds flight search functionality via Kayak

By Sean O'Neil | March 25, 2016

Ten days ago we reported on how Slack, a messaging platform for internal company discussions, has begun to open itself to travel-related integrations. As we noted, Tripnary was the first to use Sla Read More

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Priceline Group spent $2.8 billion on online advertising in 2015

By Kevin May | February 18, 2016

Little wake-up call shared today by the Priceline Group for consumer-facing startups thinking they can challenge the big boys and girls of the online travel world. In its fourth quarter and full ye Read More

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Priceline Group says fifth of room nights on Booking.com go to business travellers

By Kevin May | February 17, 2016

Booking.com is seeing a continued shift in the split between types of users on the service - with 20% going the way of business travellers. Umbrella company, The Priceline Group, says in its full y Read More

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Momondo Group puts faith in cuddly approach to metasearch

By Kevin May | January 6, 2016

Momondo Group is celebrating what it claims is a milestone for its Cheapflights brand - half a million visits in a single day. The company says it achieved the accolade across desktop, mobile and a Read More

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Top10 falls out of the charts and into an early grave

By Kevin May | December 24, 2015

No Christmas number one for Top10, the well-funded online hotel search provider, after confirming that it has closed down after four years of operations. The UK_based startup used review scores, lo Read More

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Consensual hallucination (or the state of investment in travel startups)

By Linda Fox | November 23, 2015

Here's the context: giants in the travel investment world, Joel Cutler and Priceline Group's Glenn Fogel, are on a panel discussing everything from unicorns, elevator pitches, exits and much in betwee Read More

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Priceline Group: acquisition spree is not that prolific

By Kevin May | October 20, 2015

The Priceline Group may have been extremely active to some in the investment and acquisition markets in recent years - but it doesn't think so. Since 2013 the company has spent at least $5.15 billi Read More

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Expedia to display fare families, fare forecasts, and status-eligible seats

By Sean O'Neil | October 20, 2015

Today Expedia Inc said that its online travel agencies Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, and Hotwire will gradually roll out new flight search tools that display the total price (inclusive of typical fees Read More

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Airlines warned giving Google any data will ensure you're hostage to it for life

By Kevin May | October 12, 2015

It's almost remarkable that over five years have now passed since Google made its first significant foray into the travel industry. Google had, lest we forget, been working "within" travel for year Read More

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Escapio switches to hotel metasearch: Will small OTAs follow?

By Sean O'Neil | October 8, 2015

Escapio, a Berlin-based online travel agency (OTA), has switched to metasearch model for a curated list of luxury and design hotels. The revamped Escapio showcases at launch 6,000 "unique" hotels, Read More

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Kayak does a Hipmunk, uses heat map search for hotels

By Kevin May | September 23, 2015

A long time ago (okay, three years ago), Kayak co-founder and CEO Steve Hafner (in)famously labelled metasearch newbie Hipmunk as "road kill". Attendees at the 2012 Phocuswright Conference in Phoenix Read More

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