The next flashpoint — mobile exclusive rates

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With the prevalence of mobile devices and the emergence of tonight-only mobile hotel apps from Hotel Tonight, Priceline and others to follow, hotels and intermediaries increasingly will have to deal with the dynamics and challenges of “mobile exclusive rates.”

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Fly.com tests Kayak-powered hotels while Travelzoo Local Deals exec takes flight

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A year-and-a-half after a Travelzoo official talked of an imminent launch, which never happened, of Fly.com hotel and car hire features in Germany, Fly.com is now beta testing hotels and cars in the US and Kayak is powering the hotel search.

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Three-minute survey from Frommers – Digital content in travel

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Frommer’s Unlimited has been tracking digital marketing and travel content trends for the past three years – and now the annual survey is back!

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Kayak IPO stalled by volatile market conditions

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Plans by Kayak to place the company on the public financial markets in the US are being held up by ongoing worries about the state of the economy.

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EasyJet maintains business focus, takes mobile booking to Blackberry first

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EasyJet has announced a beta mobile site enabling Blackberry users to search for and book flights across its European destinations

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TLabs Reprise – Adioso 12 months on

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Adioso is an Australia-based travel search site, which first featured on Tnooz in September 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months?

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Narrow gap splits top three agencies – Top New Zealand websites, September 24 2011

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Just 2% market share separates the top three online travel agencies – Webjet, Expedia and House of Travel – in New Zealand this week.

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Travelport wins full backing to extend debt plan to 2016

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Relief all round at Travelport after securing unanimous support to alter the terms of its PIK (payment in kind) loan, effectively giving the company until 2016 to repay its debts.

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So you have a new travel app…

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It’s a decision we at Tnooz confront literally every day — when to write about a just-published travel app and when to take a pass on it.

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Travel gets appy on a Thursday, must be something in the air

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Travel apps are coming thick and fast this week with new iPhone and iPad releases from Travelzoo, ebookers and hotels.com

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