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Momondo secures £5 million credit facility from Barclays

By Kevin May | June 5, 2014

Travel search group Momondo has captured a £5 million from Barclays Bank to arm its acquisition and expansion warchest. The company behind metasearch site Momondo and deals publisher Cheapflights s Read More

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TourRadar raises $500,000 for group tours and activities platform

By Kevin May | May 29, 2014

Almost a year to the day since it wooed an ex-Expedia CEO to invest, group tour and activity booking service TourRadar has raised another $500,000. New angel investors in the Austria-based company Read More

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Booking.com launches rental site Villas.com

By Kevin May | May 13, 2014

Major product extension for Booking.com as it launches its first standalone brand in the guise of Villas.com. The Priceline-owned accommodation giant officially unveiled the site this week in a bid Read More

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Damning - social media accounts for just 1% of first moments of a travel purchase

By Kevin May | May 6, 2014

Most travel marketers would acknowledge that search (still) plays a massively important role in bringing consumers into the so-called purchase funnel. The evidence is overwhelming. Marketing ana Read More

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OTA vs metasearch power struggle - Big Data could be a deciding (not boring) factor

By Alex Bainbridge | April 28, 2014

Big Data is fast becoming one of those terms that is overused and applied to all sorts of data projects that are, in fact, not Big Data at all. However just because the term is misapplied, we shoul Read More

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Momondo reunited with its mojo, releases first results in years

By Kevin May | April 15, 2014

Momondo Group says it is ready to come out fighting after a few years lurking in the shadows, watching as the metasearch world went kind of crazy. The UK-based company, which runs the global Momond Read More

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Heartbleed: Major travel sites like Expedia and Priceline appear to have dodged a bullet

By Sean O'Neil | April 9, 2014

It's a computer bug with a name out of a James Bond movie: heartbleed. The security flaw, which exposes data to hackers, appears to threaten hundreds and possibly thousands of websites. Respected U Read More

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How to pull back the sheets on Hotel Tonight and its performance

By Sean O'Neil | April 1, 2014

Like many private companies, Hotel Tonight, a pioneer of last-minute booking apps, is coy about the effectiveness of its e-marketing effort. But clues to its performance can be found in a sample of Read More

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In defence of online travel agencies - they are not evil

By Viewpoints | March 31, 2014

There are multiple opinion pieces pushing ways in which hoteliers can free themselves from online travel agencies and increase their own direct bookings. NB: This is an analysis by Sabrina Lugo at Read More

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Priceline acquires micro-marketing platform Qlika

By Nick Vivion | March 11, 2014

Interesting little technology acquisition for Priceline after confirming it has bought Israeli startup Qlika. Terms of the acquisition are unknown (Re/Code suggests $3 million), but a Priceline off Read More

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Priceline reports strong results as Booking.com creeps into North America

By Nick Vivion | February 21, 2014

Priceline has reported its Q4 2013 results, posting strong growth in bookings, gross profit, and net income. During the call, Priceline CEO Darren Huston (who took over from Jeff Boyd in the summer Read More

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Startup pitch: Findmystay lets people bid for a hotel reservation

By Karthick Prabu | February 18, 2014

In an effort to bridge the wide gap between hotel supply and demand in India, FindMyStay has launched a bidding platform that enables hoteliers to offer discounts. The India-based company launched Read More

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GetYourGuide woos ex-Booking.com boss and others to invest $4.5M

By Kevin May | January 30, 2014

More investment capital pouring into Getyourguide - this time in the shape of $4.5 million from Kees Koolen and Fritz Demopoulos, ex-respective CEOs of Booking.com and Qunar. The latest round comes Read More

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Travel MARKETING roundup - January 2014

By PhocusWire | January 30, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for January 2014. 30 January 2014: CheapAir connects each customer with a personal travel advi Read More

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How sales are impacted by PPC advertising

By PhocusWire | December 17, 2013

MARKETING: Search marketing works. It is why brands such as Priceline and Booking.com have continually put so much faith (and some smart tech) behind their PPC strategies. But as those with smaller Read More

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