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Expedia eyes South America, invests $270 million in Decolar online travel agency

By Kevin May | March 10, 2015

More strategic moves by Expedia Inc as it invests $270 million in South American online travel agencies Decolar and Despegar. The investment will give Expedia a minority stake of about 20% in the D Read More

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Kayak will not outspend rivals in Europe, sub-scale metas will be in trouble

By Kevin May | March 10, 2015

The industry and media can always count on Kayak co-founder and CEO, Steve Hafner, for a few choice quotes during his appearances at events. But beyond the poking fun at supposed rivals such as Hip Read More

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Google Flights comes out of beta, but still isn't profitable

By Sean O'Neil | March 2, 2015

Google Flights, the travel metasearch tool, has officially come out of beta. The Flights product now appears as an option within the Google products dropdown menu. While no longer in beta, Google F Read More

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In Brazil, metasearch heats up, as Mundi, Voopter, Skyscanner, and Kayak expand

By Sean O'Neil | February 25, 2015

In the US and Britain, metasearch sites like Kayak and Skyscanner are well known brands, used by millions to scour multiple, independent online travel agencies and supplier sites for airfares, hotels, Read More

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Airlines: think Amazon, think digital data, think revenue

By Viewpoints | February 18, 2015

Airlines are now capable of collecting and analyzing more and more traveler data including mobile app and social media behavior, session history from in-flight connectivity, travel history, and previo Read More

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IBM sues Priceline Group for alleged patent infringement

By Kevin May | February 10, 2015

This could get messy. IT giant IBM claims the Priceline Group has refused to negotiate a license to use four of its patents. In a complaint filed at the US District Court in Delaware this week, IBM Read More

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Startup pitch: Kenavo blends multimodal with metasearch

By Sean O'Neil | February 9, 2015

Kenavo is a new metasearch website from France that is taking on the Skyscanners and Kayaks of the world by answering the question of "how do I get from A to B" a little differently. Unlike major m Read More

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Kayak adds Hotel for Tonight tool to app, Cuba to search

By Sean O'Neil | January 30, 2015

HotelTonight's pioneering success with same-day hotel bookings has led a host of copycat products from other companies, including online travel agencies like Priceline and Last Minute Travel and metas Read More

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Qunar bets on tech as it attempts to travel the road to profit

By Viewpoints | January 29, 2015

Qunar's profitability in the next year is a much mooted topic in the Chinese travel industry. While Ctrip never fails to remind everyone that its performance is reflected in its profitability, Quna Read More

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How to defend online travel margins against web-scraping bots

By Viewpoints | January 19, 2015

In the years since everyone became their own travel agent, finding the best deal has become almost a Vegas-like "beat the system" game. NB: This is an analysis by Rami Essaid, CEO and co-founder at Read More

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How do online travel agencies win with loyalty?

By Viewpoints | December 15, 2014

Some of the main customer acquisition techniques of online travel agencies were analysed in the first part of this article. NB: This is an analysis by Francesco Canzoniere, ex-CEO of Viajar and now Read More

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Hacking towards the future of travel - a judge's perspective

By Viewpoints | December 9, 2014

Fostering and sustaining technology innovation is critical for the travel industry. And the participants of Amadeus’s HACK@1050 in November were focused on doing just that. NB: This is an analys Read More

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Startup pitch: PaperFlies wants flight search to be fun and inspirational

By Linda Fox | December 2, 2014

Frustrated with the flight search process and final prices always being higher than the original search, two friends founded PaperFlies two years ago. The Netherlands-based startup wants to offer f Read More

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Skyscanner sees a bright future in B2B (where others once blazed a trail)

By Kevin May | November 13, 2014

Skyscanner is not exactly betting the house on its fledgeling business-to-business division, but there is considerable effort going in to expand its operations. Chief operating officer Mark Logan s Read More

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Kayak surrenders to Qunar in China

By Kevin May | November 12, 2014

Quite an admission from Kayak CEO Steve Hafner: Qunar is not going to be beaten in China. At least, Hafner concedes that Kayak is not going to be the metasearch brand which manages to unseat the Ch Read More

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