Best of Tnooz Last Week – Google extending, TripAdvisor verifying, Ancillaries punching

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What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?

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Hotel Urbano creeps up on Decolar – Top Brazil travel sites, October 15 2011

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Big effort from Hotel Urbano this week as it lurks below Decolar in the list of top agency travel websites in Brazil.

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Tnooz Nuggets – Friday 21 October 2011

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HipGeo plots trips, Madeira Promotion Bureau gets bloggy, Isango shows off, Frommer’s takes ShortCuts, and American Airlines curbs its enthusiasm,

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LivingSocial blending travel inspiration and tour operator role

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Flash sales site LivingSocial has sold more than 500,000 hotel room nights at nearly 800 properties since launching LivingSocial Escapes 11 months ago.

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Airbnb ponders UK VAT issue

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Apartment rental site Airbnb has said it is ‘looking into’ potential VAT issues in the UK as well as seller of travel law in Iowa.

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Southwest on AirTran code share, Groupon discounts, TripIt and Traxo

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After delaying a decision on a new reservations system a few months ago, Southwest Airlines says it is now hard at work building a code-share capability to use with merger partner AirTran Airways.

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Expedia clings on to top spot – Top New Zealand websites, October 15 2011

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Expedia has kept the coveted leading position in the list of top travel websites in New Zealand, holding off the advances of WebJet this week.

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Ensemble agents will be cruising with Passport Online booking engine

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Will cruise agents put down the phone and turn to the Web for cruise shopping and booking?

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Travelzoo Local Deals — cannibalization or intentional shift?

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Is the year-old Travelzoo voucher business in the form of Local Deals and Getaways cannibalizing its heretofore core Top 20 deals and travel-media business?

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TripAdvisor seeks verification after hotel claims false review

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Tripadvisor is seeking verification after Howarth House, a hotel in Lytham St Anne, said a review posted on the property was fake.

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