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UK regulator to investigate Expedia and Priceline meta acquisitions

By Sean O'Neil | February 27, 2013

Britain's Office Of Fair Trading (OFT) is investigating the recent acquisitions of Trivago by Expedia and Kayak by Priceline. Read More

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Kayak ends tours and activities on mobile via GetYourGuide, cites low popularity with users

By Kevin May | February 15, 2013

Mobile users with tours and activities - a perfect match, right? Perhaps not so obvious after all, with Kayak deciding to end its partner deal with GetYourGuide. Read More

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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier

By Kevin May | February 12, 2013

One area of the Frommer's business that got little mention during the acquisition by Google last summer was the travel content service for other brands. Read More

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Google winding down B2B division at Frommers, travel sites need to find new content supplier

By Kevin May | February 12, 2013

One area of the Frommer's business that got little mention during the acquisition by Google last summer was the travel content service for other brands. Read More

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The new reality in hotel revenue management - a check-list for 2013

By Patrick Landman | February 4, 2013

A new year and many changes are on the horizon that are impacting heavily your hotel's pricing and distribution strategy. Read More

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History of the Internet (and a few travel milestones) [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | January 15, 2013

A couple of things standout in this AVG infographic, some perhaps more obvious than others Read More

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Kayak adds price forecasts to US and UK fare search, saying it's better than Bing Travel

By Sean O'Neil | January 15, 2013

Today US metasearch site Kayak is introducing a price forecast tool similar to an airfare prediction service pioneered in 2005 by Farecast and later acquired by Bing Travel. Read More

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TripAdvisor tests hotel metasearch service - now the fun really begins

By Kevin May | January 15, 2013

User review giant TripAdvisor is finally doing what pretty much everyone involved in the hotel sector expected it to do years ago - consumer metasearch for its vast portfolio of properties. Read More

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Kayak-Priceline deal validates evolution of meta model, but Skyscanner rules out immediate IPO

By Kevin May | January 9, 2013

Two years is an awfully long time in travel technology, especially considering how quickly the landscape has changed in the flight metasearch end of the industry. Read More

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Mobile confession from the new Priceline family member [VIDEO]

By Linda Fox | January 8, 2013

It's worth sticking with this clip from CBS This Morning if you can get past the presenters drooling over Priceline's $1.8bn acquisition of Kayak in November Read More

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Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search

By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2013

Superfly's guerrilla marketing on Facebook has lured users to its fight search tool, and its new airline e-mail scanning service may let customers load up their mileage information in a single click. Read More

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Expedia pays $632 million for majority stake in Trivago, let the travel search games begin

By Kevin May | December 21, 2012

Expedia plans to acquire a 61.6% equity position in Trivago, a German metasearch company for a total consideration of Euro 477 million ($632 million). Read More

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Google tests Flight Explorer platform to bring inspiration into the search equation

By Kevin May | December 13, 2012

It's been a while since Google did one of its "experiments" around its Flight Search - but this latest one is quite a departure from what has come before it. Read More

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OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012

In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to persuade 2% of users to click through to the sites of travel suppliers, according to new research from... Read More

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What does the Priceline-Kayak deal (and Google lurking in the background) mean for hotel marketing?

By Viewpoints | December 5, 2012

A month after the deal of the year was announced, hoteliers and marketers are digesting how Priceline's proposal to buy Kayak for $1.8 billion will impact on their digital strategy? Read More

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