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Jun '11

Royal Jordanian Airlines and the on-board tweetup, on the ground

Center East carrier Royal Jordanian is declaring credit score for hosting the 1st official aircraft tweetup in the Center East, part of a task to increase its social media profile in the region. The thought was to invite 20 of Jordan’s best bloggers and influencers in social media to meet up on-board one particular of [...]

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Jun '11

TLabs Showcase – Matchbook

TLabs Showcase on journey startups featuring US-centered area recommendation and bookmarking app supplier Matchbook. Who and what are you (like personnel and backgrounds)? Matchbook is an app to capture these ought to-don’t forget restaurants, bars and retailers.  Right now when a buddy recommends a great restaurant, people bear in mind that by writing it down [...]

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Jun '11

Four issues to ponder regarding airline ancillary revenue

NB: This is a guest post by Jodie Cohen, programme director at the Income Management for Airlines conference. Flight prices are currently being squeezed to an all-time very low, and airlines from all corners of the world are seeking for methods to protect and enhance their profits streams. At the identical time, technologies developments are [...]

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Jun '11

What are the most influential factors when buying travel?

Some interesting data from YPartnership in a review hunting at the inspiration, study, research, purchasing and buying of travel goods by consumers. The study of 2,500 US grown ups, carried out to support sort its Portrait of American Travelers paper, asked what are the major influencers for would-be travellers during the travel acquire funnel. The examine [...]

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Jun '11

Tnooz Nuggets – Fri 3 June 2011

In these days’s edition: Regatta in Barbados, linking up at Orbitz, satisfied birthday Getabed, Illusions in Thailand, trio join Space 77. This is the regular Tnooz roundup of product news from around the journey, tourism and hospitality market, all with a technological innovation, on the web and digital twist – Friday three June 2011. The Barbados [...]

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Jun '11

Expedia Affiliate Network benefits from Farelogix direct connect in AirTran deal

As Expedia Inc. spouse Sabre shuns Farelogix, the Expedia Affiliate Network is benefiting from Farelogix immediate-connect technological innovation. No, the Expedia Affiliate Network doesn’t tie into Farelogix, but connects to aggregator ezRez, which accesses Farelogix. It’s all part of a just-declared agreement in between AirTran Airways (now a Southwest Airlines subsidiary) and the Expedia Affiliate [...]

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Jun '11

Despite Google Offers and Groupon IPO, Travelzoo stands fast on Local Deals

Google has launched a beta of Google Delivers and Groupon teamed with Expedia and is poised for an IPO, but in the encounter of this flash-revenue frenzy, Travelzoo believes its own approach will be “very hard to replicate.” That’s the watch of Chris Loughlin, the Travelzoo CEO, when asked to comment on how the Groupon IPO [...]

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Jun '11

Top travel websites in Australia – May 28 2011

Most well-liked travel internet sites in Australia for the week ending Might 28 2011: Company Rank Web site Domain Proportion of Visits Earlier Placement 1 Webjet Australia www.webjet.com.au thirteen.71% 1 two Flight Centre www.flightcentre.com.au nine.83% two three Expedia Australia www.expedia.com.au eight.09% 3 4 Lastminute.com.au www.lastminute.com.au 5.33% 4 5 Expedia www.expedia.com three.76% six six Finest Flights [...]

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Jun '11

Travelport joins Sabre in ending Farelogix developer agreements

In late December, just a week after American Airlines taken out its fares from Orbitz, Travelport terminated a developer’s agreement it had with Farelogix. Tnooz reported in 2009 that Sabre, too, had terminated its developer’s agreement with Farelogix, but Travelport’s move in opposition to Farelogix hadn’t been extensively acknowledged till American Airlines reviewed it in [...]

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Jun '11

HomeAway debuts ReservationManager for payment options

HomeAway, which has pledged to ease the on the internet booking of vacation rentals, is debuting ReservationManager for property proprietors. ReservationsManager enables U.S. home entrepreneurs listing on HomeAway to method guest payments employing key credit cards or eCheck and funds get deposited into proprietor’s accounts inside a few organization days, HomeAway states. The credit score [...]