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Google attempts to appease travel search critics, plans tests for new display options

By Linda Fox | April 25, 2013

Google's lengthy wrangling with European regulators could see some kind of closure if a market test of... Read More

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Lastminute goes back to its roots in latest marketing initiative

By Linda Fox | April 22, 2013

Lastminute has unveiled its 'love living lastminute.com' television advertising campaign which starts... Read More

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PointsHound gets seed funding to take hotel booking and loyalty miles model forward

By Linda Fox | March 20, 2013

PointsHound, a hotel booking service enabling guests to collect points from the airline loyalty scheme... Read More

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Onboard, owned by LVMH, aims to make online travel chic, at least for cruises

By Sean O'Neil | March 13, 2013

Onboard, a website that's all about cruise travel, aims to directly challenge Cruise Critic and... Read More

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In a Q&A, Tourism Australia reveals the secrets of its Facebook dominance

By Sean O'Neil | February 27, 2013

Here's the story on how Tourism Australia unlocked Facebook success by creating the world's most... Read More

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European rail should be a big opportunity - but what needs to happen?

By Linda Fox | February 25, 2013

There's a deja vu moment in the latest study from Amadeus on the growth of European rail between now... Read More

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What travel can learn from American cookie brand Oreo's best tweet ever

By Nick Vivion | February 13, 2013

While "continuing the conversation" is perhaps the most overused guru-fied social media phrase, it... Read More

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$50k bounty in latest round the world travel blogging competition

By Linda Fox | January 28, 2013

Online travel guide My Destination is taking the go big or go home approach with its competition... 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... 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... Read More

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