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This is a viewpoint by Graham Charlton, editor-in-chief for SaleCycle. Booking abandonment is a problem for travel websites, but there’s still plenty they can do to keep the problem to a minimum. I Read More

Booking.com has quietly started testing partnerships for other travel products, including package trips via a deal with Lastminute.com. Read More

Lastminute.com Group has secured a deal to buy the Comvel business from ProSiebenSat.1 Group, giving it a chance to grow its presence in Germany. Read More

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints about "misleading prices" in adverts from Ryanair and lastminute.com, with the ruling on the latter potentially having implications Read More

A 20% overnight increase in searches would send the business analysts at most OTAs into mathematical meltdown, delving deep into the data to identify the patterns and create order from the chaos. O Read More

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L Read More

Very few online travel companies can try and compete with the likes of Expedia Inc and the Priceline Group in ad-spending power - so other approaches are needed. Yet whilst the likes of Lastminute. Read More

Travel startups attempting to muscle in on consumer travel will face an uphill task if they want to challenge the status quo. That's the pessimistic view from the deputy CEO of Lastminute.com Group Read More

Having founded WorldMate and Desti (which also swallowed Plnnr), not a week goes by without me being approached by an entrepreneur who has started/is starting/is contemplating a travel startup. NB: Read More

It hasn't been a greatest seven days for Lufthansa with its plans to introduce a Euro 16 levy on all bookings made via intermediaries. First of all, a tax loophole in Brazil meant that travel agenc Read More

Online travel agency bookings have undergone a massive shift. For the first six months of 2014, over 40 percent of consumers booked travel reservations. However, travel is still experiencing an Read More

It is 1989. Tim (now Sir) Berners-Lee, whilst working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, has an idea to create something called the world wide web. ...(sorry, former-Mr Vice President)... The wor Read More

A new report, produced by Tnooz in association with Boxever, concludes that travel firms have no excuse not to start working on personalization strategies. A Brief History of Personalization - Past Read More

Two months on from bedding in its purchase of Lastminute.com, Bravofly Rumbo has won shareholder approval to banish its former brand name forever. The new corporate identity for the group will come Read More

Bravofly Rumbo has committed to making its recently-purchased Lastminute.com name its primary pan-European consumer brand. The Swiss-listed European OTA bought the business from Sabre for $120 mill Read More