Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending January 9 2010.
Data includes Top Ten travel search terms and the Top Ten Agency, Airline and Destination/Accommodation sites.
US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 9 2010
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WAYN looks over shoulder at FourSquare, ponders gaming strategy
January 11, 2010 By 3 Comments
Travel social network WAYN has been through a number of incarnations over the years and is now considering a move to add gaming functionality as a result of seeing FourSquare’s early success.
WAYN completely overhauled its user interface and proposition in April 2009 as a result of a wide-ranging review of the entire business in the face of competition and growth from the likes of Facebook.
Now, co-founder Jerome Touze admits that the concept of adding some kind of gaming element into the WAYN system has become attractive following the rapid growth and broadly positive critical reaction to FourSquare in late-2009.
Review site says European hotel prices down 12pc on last year
January 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
Germany-based user review site Trivago says the average price of a hotel room across European is falling dramatically with some cities selling nights for almost half the price of January 2009.
The continental hotel room price is around Euro 100 per night, down 12% year-on-year as hotels slash rates to help keep properties occupied.
The massive drop demonstrates the difficulty the hotel industry is still seeing in terms of getting customers to book during what is still a serious global economic upheaval and widespread disruption to existing travel plans as a result of bad weather across the continent.
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Is it right that PricewaterhouseCoopers can sell FlyGlobespan customer data?
January 11, 2010 By 5 Comments
The FlyGlobespan saga continues apace – credit card payment firm E-Clear is in the High Court this week – and administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers clearly needs to find some money for creditors.
Running alongside the various financial shenanigans surrounding the case is news that PWC is trying to sell the Globespan’s “wonderful customer details”.
PWC is so excited that it even sent out a tweet.
UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 9 2010
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Most popular travel websites in the UK for the week ending January 9 2010.
Data includes Top Ten travel search terms and the Top Ten Agency, Airline and Destination/Accommodation sites.
Travelocity wins Traveolcity domain name case
January 11, 2010 By 4 Comments
Not a typo – just an illustration of the lengths companies such as Travelocity will go to in order to snap up domain names needed for when users mistype a brand name.
The Sabre-owned online travel agency has just won a case through the National Arbitration Forum in the US to get its hands on Traveolcity.com.
Officials argued that the existing owner Enom was using the domain in “bad faith” and trading links to Travelocity competitors.
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Unless user experience improves travel booking engines will always suck
January 11, 2010 By 2 Comments
Recently I have been looking at the user experience with a lot of online travel booking engines and other search tools.
Frankly they mostly suck. This is in the main because this is not simple or easy.
There are too many dimensions to the process. But that doesn’t mean that we have to put up with poor user experience in the main today.
Travelocity not be outdone by Expedia launches new Gnome TV ads
January 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Exclusive to Tnooz and almost straight out of the cutting room, Travelocity has released a round of new Roaming Gnome-led TV adspots as the battle for OTA supremacy heats up.
The new collection – the first one of two is included here – comes as Expedia rebrands and unveils the first of its three new TV commercials.
Centred as always on the infamous Gnome and his bizarre adventures around the world, Cabin Fever is the latest episode and is targeting ski fans in North America.
The Week in Travel Tech – January 3 to January 9 2010
January 9, 2010 By 4 Comments
What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 3 to Saturday 9 January 2010.
Read on to see the most commented articles, the most controversial topic, and every other article this week…
Kayak gets clubby with exclusive hotel deals
January 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
Kayak, a metasearch engine and deal publisher, says it will begin to be a provider of exclusive hotel deals.
Kayak began soliciting people on Twitter to sign up for the exclusive deals, called Private Sales, before it goes live.
This has been in the works for several months, and apparently the debut of private sales is inching closer.
Kayak says the hotel deals, which will be exclusively available to Kayak users who sign up, will feature hotel deals up to 50% off and will last until the inventory is gone.
