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TripAdvisor Shakes Up Business with Aggressive Hotel Metasearch Integration

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

TripAdvisor just shook up its business in a way that it hasn’t done for years. After introducing hotel metasearch on smartphones during the fourth quarter, the company said today it will introduce hotel metasearch across tablets and desktops, and complete … Continue reading →

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TripAdvisor basks in social graph integration with Facebook, eye-watering numbers revealed

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

TripAdvisor, wallowing in a 20% jump in revenue for 2012 compared to the previous year, also appears to be enjoying the fruits of its partnership with Facebook. When the user review giant launched its Trip Friends service almost three years … Continue reading →

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Google updates Hotel Finder with date, neighborhood, brand, and travel time

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Google has updated its Hotel Finder tool to invite users to narrow their searches by neighborhood and time period, plus (for a limited number of cities) its first unique innovation in metasearch: “time-based search.” When a user clicks to runs … Continue reading →

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Where Google Travel is heading, according to one of its employees

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Yesterday, Google announced an update to its Flight Search tool that lets users search for regions, like “Hawaii”—not merely airports. You can now “search for countries, states, islands, and continents from any U.S. or Canadian origin,” says the company. This … Continue reading →

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Big Data in travel: Rubber hitting the road, but only for some

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

Big data and how it will have a massive impact on the travel industry – yup, we’ve been hearing an awful lot about that over the course of the past 18 months or so. But last week’s Smart Analytics Conference, hosted by … Continue reading →

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Could technology-led Gen-Y throw a spanner in the business travel agenda?

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

Not much scope for improving the business traveller experience it seems in 2013 as travel managers focus firmly on reducing cost through various measures. But it makes you wonder how far the Gen-Y population could push back on travel managers … Continue reading →

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Can hotels chill out when it comes to multi-device websites?

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Imagine for a second that someone is trying to make a hotel reservation for the same evening, but has already left the house so all they can use are mobile devices. Will your hotel’s website be able to let that … Continue reading →

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Rejoice! Daily deals in travel are dying

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

Did you hear? Even Groupon is moving away from the daily deal business. That’s right, they are selling vacuum cleaners, mattresses and other overstock merchandise to their massive mailing list of bargain hunters because their services-based voucher sales have slowed. … Continue reading →

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Another travel startup story: Why iGottaGuide failed

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

iGottaGuide was my first scalable technology startup. Prior to working with my co-founder and developer Michael Griffiths, we both had extensive experience in service-based businesses. We saw tourism as a fragmented industry, hard to navigate with a massive amount of … Continue reading →

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The next big travel technology opportunity: a mobile-only booking giant for tours and activities

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

At the Travel Business Academy, a professional online course teaching entrepreneurs how to start a travel business, we have been researching and analyzing the in-destination mobile app travel business. This article looks at the current online booking and mobile booking … Continue reading →

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