Facebook Pages get more interactive and social with Timeline treatment

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Travel companies on Facebook will have to rethink their Pages’ interactivity, “look” and navigation as Facebook announced that improvements — or changes, that is — will be coming to corporate Pages by March 30.

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Gap narrows between Expedia and WebJet – Top Australia travel websites, February 25 2012

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WebJet has lost some of its lead over rival online travel agency Expedia in the list of leading travel websites in Australia.

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Kayak ahead of Hotwire and Travelocity – Top US travel sites, February 25 2012

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After Hotwire surprised many last week after overtaking Travelocity, it’s now the turn of Kayak to leapfrog both brands and become the fourth most popular intermediary site in the US.

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Booking.com big for Priceline but only scratching the surface in Europe

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Priceline’s annual results published this week leave us much to speculate about regarding Netherlands-based booking.com and it’s strategy going forward

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Groupon acquires Uptake in a move to double down in data and travel

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Groupon has acquired Uptake in a move that may see the deals site make good on its pledge to get more deeply involved in travel.

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Travelzoo launches mobile site and Android app — if you come, they will build it

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With 17.5% of its global website traffic already coming from mobile browsers, Travelzoo unveiled its first mobile website, in the US, and debuted an Android app, as well.

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TripAdvisor dips toe into world of verified reviews via collection service for partners

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Big developments from TripAdvisor with news that is has unveiled a system to allow third parties to collect reviews from customers which will then be flagged as verified on the main site.

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What happens when you apply semantic search technology to hotel websites?

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A hotel is dynamic — a veritable revolving door of people and activities. Yet most hotel websites are dynamic only in the booking process.

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Time to wake up and smell the coffee in hotel management [FREE eBOOK]

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Over the last six years we have trained over 6,000 hoteliers in hotel revenue management, distribution and internet marketing strategies.

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Tech to cut through the glut of daily deals – for hoteliers and consumers

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Two bits of technology have come across the Tnooz desks in the past couple of weeks aim to address the flash deals fatigue that many are feeling

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