Behold the human-free, fully-automated hotel stay

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Many of the individual elements of the tech-led hotel are in place, but a hotel in Norway has joined all the dots together, creating a completely human-free experience.

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HomeAway gets social in distribution partnership with Gogobot

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HomeAway struck a distribution partnership with social trip-planning site Gogobot.com.

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Top travel websites in Brazil – January 22 2011

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Most popular travel websites in Brazil for the week ending January 22 2011.

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Google-ITA Software deal: Is mobile the key element?

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Perhaps one of the factors missing from much of the commentary around Google’s proposed acquisition of ITA Software is around the mobile opportunity.

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LowcostHolidays eyes European push with Bigmouthmedia deal

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Digital marketing agency Bigmouthmedia is to help LowcostHolidays and its aggressive expansion plan to reach new markets around Europe.

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Top travel websites in France – January 22 2011

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Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending January 22 2011.

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Laughing at searching on the web for hotel reviews

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With all the ire about TripAdvisor and Google these days it’s sometimes worth seeing how it all looks from the outside.

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With Sabre-American truce short-lived, Farelogix questions GDS motives

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Farelogix, a key partner in American Airlines Direct Connect, says it was going to withhold a video challenging the motives of Sabre and Travelport in biasing the airline’s flights in GDSs after learning that peace broke out Jan. 24 between Sabre and American.

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How skewed Google search results would disrupt travel

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Harvard Professor Ben Edelman makes a convincing case that Google has a built-in bias toward its own services.

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