What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 31 January to Saturday 6 February 2010:
Top three most commented articles this week:
- What are the most popular tourism profiles on Twitter?
- Is travel metasearch forsaking consumers, caving in to OTAs and airlines?
- Does mobile have a problem if 4 out of 5 say they would never buy from a handset?
Controversial topics of the week:
List of the week:
And the rest (most recent first):
- Tripology CEO speaks – but will not discuss old investor Markus Deutsch
- New Orleans, smitten with Mardi Gras, edges Vegas in Priceline Valentine
- Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling
- Jilted by JetBlue for Sabre, Navitaire strikes back
- Four travel-related domain name sales fetched $4.5 million in 2009
- Fly.com may have hotels and car hire by end of 2010, German launch imminent
- Southwest lays out timetable for tech upgrades … Wi-Fi, website, Rapid Rewards
- Travelocity boxes up box offices, sells Vegas ticket locations
- Travelport secures China technology deal through TravelSky
- Sandy Balls and the unintentionally viral video
- Travelport bosses to get IPO awards, bonuses and contracts for transition
- Tripology loses investor, halts lead system, axes staff
- People fear booking on a mobile but will happily receive tickets
- Travelzoo posts profit despite losses in Europe
- In great grape mashup, NileGuide signs sweet deal with Wine Travel Guides
- Rolling bitesize job news – latest appointments, moves, restructures
- Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 30 2010
- Ctrip to buy 90% of Hong Kong agency to improve position in Greater China
- Nuts and bolts behind HomeAway’s Super Bowl ad — $1M in new hardware
- Clash of the Titans — AHLA, ITSA discuss terms for a sitdown
- HomeAway puts faith in objectivity with Gran Tourismo project
- US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 30 2010
- UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End January 30 2010
- Two corporate booking tools make nice — Amadeus opens tech vault for Concur
- Travel Technology Europe 2010 in London – exhibitor profiles
- Seven little words worth $21M — ‘OTCs do not control and run hotels’
- FlyBe website collapses – customers annoyed and in the dark
- Two US airlines taking seat upgrades to mobile apps through Farelogix, Mobiata
- Travelport, Amadeus and Thomas Cook – threesomes no longer working
- Mavis Beacon and the Lost Art (of Travel Content)
- Ranting travel blogger almost moves from being the hunter to the hunted
- Non-transactional travel sites are chasing the online agents on unique product hunting – but can it work?
- On-time arrival: JetBlue.com online again
Previous Week in Travel Tech:
- January 24-30 2010
- January 17-23 2010
- January 10-16 2010
- January 3-9 2010
- December 27-January 2 2010
- December 20-26 2009
- December 13-19 2009
- December 6-12 2009
- November 29-December 5 2009
- November 22-28 2009
- November 15-21 2009
- November 8-14 2009
- November 1-7 2009
- October 25-31 2009
- October 18-24 2009
- October 11-17 2009
- October 3-10 2009
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