Celeb watch — Virgin America woos Wi-Fi crowd with free People

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You don’t have to pay for Wi-Fi access on Virgin America flights to find out why Ashton Kutcher views tweeting wife Demi Moore as a romantic move.

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ezRez to replace Holiday Autos, lastminute.com for Emirates

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Emirates selected ezRez to replace Holiday Autos and LastMinute.com for car rental, hotel and destination activity booking on the airline’s websites.

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Part One of Four: 101 ways to use mobile messages in travel

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The competition to earn customers in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries is intense.

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Skyscanner takes covers off ski trip planning experiment

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Interesting departure for metasearch site Skyscanner with news that its newly formed labs team have developed a trip planning service for ski holidays.

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Six essentials for travel startups

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Travel startups always have wonderfully optimistic ideas and aspirations – in fact, overwhelming positivity is practically omnipresent and often rather intoxicating.

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TLabs Showcase – Tourz

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TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring Singapore-based virtual tour planning site Tourz.

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Marriott — biodegradable laundry bags, EcoSmart pillows

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From biodegradable laundry bags to EcoSmart pillows, Marriott outlined initiatives it carried out to green its $10 billion global supply chain.

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Wanted — More TripAdvisor, TravelPost hotel reviews

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Girls just wanna have fun and hotel review sites just wanna get more reviews.

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Windows Phone 7 brings voice activated flight status

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Microsoft is pushing hard with the apparent gazillions of new features on the Windows Phone 7 released today – but little mention so far of one neat piece of functionality.

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Travel advertisers use CAPTCHA for branded type-ins

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Advertisers, including Expedia, Off & Away and a couple of hotel chains, are supplementing display advertising by using publishers’ CAPTCHA security tools for brand messaging.

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