Best of Tnooz last week – Types, Claims, Ranks, Assaults, Planning, Lates and Trippers

What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?

Top ten by traffic:

• Traveller types based on social media and technology habits [INFOGRAPHIC]
• British Airways claims to have invented the flight check-in of the future
• Google AuthorRank promises major changes for travel search
• Latest assault on travel from Google: A virtual tour guide for mobiles
• Sorry everyone – online travel planning still looks like it is broken
• Business travellers love apps for maps and social media but shun the specialised travel stuff
• Managing the last-minute channel: the hotel perspective
• Can a road-tripper make his way around the US on $11-a-day using social media sites?
• HomeAway retires Holiday-Rentals brand, claims poor brand recognition
• TUI Travel acquires MalaPronta, Brazil’s rising OTA

Top five by comments:

• Sorry everyone – online travel planning still looks like it is broken
• Can a road-tripper make his way around the US on $11-a-day using social media sites?
• Google AuthorRank promises major changes for travel search
• Crisis creates opportunity – how responsive design can help travel brands in bad economic times
• Traveller types based on social media and technology habits [INFOGRAPHIC]

How to:

• Google AuthorRank promises major changes for travel search
• Crisis creates opportunity – how responsive design can help travel brands in bad economic times

Data:

• Hotel prices in Asia – September to November 2012

What you missed before:

• Best of Tnooz last week – Map ups and downs, Writing woes, Last-minute impact, Wireless Hell

Coming up:

• THack @ WIT – Developers, come and show what you’re made of in Singapore

THack @ SFO:

• Destinations, hotels, tours and activities – now groups can vote for their favourite on Facebook
• Travelport takes a tablet to combine the social graph of Facebook with activities, flights and hotels
• Trip planning for food and drink – a match and a hack made in heaven for travellers
• DataArt hacks away to bend your trip into something new
• The buzz of San Francisco Bay, taking off the rose-tinted specs, and seeing the Space Shuttle

Previous events:

• Tnooz-PhoCusWright VIDEO: LIVE research with YOU as the subject
• TnoozLIVE – VIDEO: Marketing to the new traveller in Asia
• Tnooz-Sabre webinar VIDEO: Technology and its massive impact on the travel experience
• Tnooz-Amadeus webinar VIDEO: Rethinking airports for future connected travelers
• Tnooz-ITB Academy webinar VIDEO: Hotels and mobile – What is next?

GDS news roundup:

• GDS news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus – September 2012

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