With over 600 million active users regularly sharing their preferences, likes and location, Facebook’s enormous amount of user data makes the social network an incredibly powerful performance based channel through which advertisers can run highly targeted, cost-effective campaigns.
Despite the temporary truce between American Airlines and its GDS providers, the prospect of a breakaway remains a very real possibility.
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based trip Beachionary, a trip planning and community platform targeting beach lovers.
Bringing existing search and booking to the Apple iPad has seemingly opened up a world of opportunity to simply improve the user experience.
Expedia, which operates Expedia-branded points of sale in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and India, plans to launch five to eight new country sites in Asia-Pacific in 2011.
Business travel users of the GetThere corporate-booking tool, now have another way to choose hotels other than loyalty points and travel-policy prohibitions — namely user reviews.
Here is an interesting quandary – if online travel agencies claim to bring incremental business, why do they advertise on hotel brand names?
Flight-deals site Cheapflights is expanding is distribution reach by offering a free Airports Nearby widget to hotel, destination or other tourism websites.
Perhaps recounting a number of bitter experiences, Web Applications UK produced an Xtranormal-fronted parody of a conversation between a system provider and a customer.
Trip-planning site UpTake hired a couple of executives with Yahoo ties and actively is mulling acquisitions to scale the company.
As the always-connected traveller turns to mobile and other devices to search and book products, travel brands must finally grasp the importance of providing a seamless multi-channel customer experience.
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