Best of Tnooz Last Week – Visually appealing, Engineering travel, Wiki-led hotels

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What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?

Top five by traffic:

• How rich visuals generate more travel bookings
• Google Earth software engineer tracks flights, tours and trees
• With Google, Apple and Facebook on the prowl, will hotels lose even more control of distribution?
• TripAdvisor analytics tools enable hoteliers to monitor the competition
• Is it time for a global HotelWiki to assist the industry (and consumers) with hotel distribution?

Top five by comments:

• Reputation management firm Olery seals $1m funding for further expansion
• How rich visuals generate more travel bookings
• Is it time for a global HotelWiki to assist the industry (and consumers) with hotel distribution?
• MyGuidie aims to bring hand-picked local activities and experiences to the masses
• Zozi turns to celebrities to run travel experiences [NOT Charlie Sheen]

What you missed on TLabs last week?

• Tripbox wants to show life remains in the online travel agency model
• MyGuidie aims to bring hand-picked local activities and experiences to the masses
• Near2there brings alerts and ways to discover destinations to mobile devices

TnoozLIVE:

• TnoozLIVE – Episode #1: 2011 roundup and 2012 preview [VIDEO]

Forthcoming events:

• Tnooz-Tealeaf FREE Webinar: Understanding the challenges of the multi-channel travel booker
• Travel Technology Europe 2012

What you missed before:

• Best of Tnooz Last Week – Global hotel play, Startup killer, Solving industry problems