Travellers might want free wifi in hotels, or in some cases just wifi (even paid) would be nice, but it may not be enough to dissuade them from telling friends about a property or abandoning it altogether.
Wifi not a deal breaker when it comes to recommending a hotel
December 13, 2012 By 10 Comments
Travel tech ahead: Check-in with your face and get an app on your watch
September 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
Retina scanning for security and fingerprinting are par for the course these days for many travellers (especially entering the US) – but what about a facial recognition tool to get deals?
Airlines: Under-investing in technology because every carrier is doing the same
June 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
I’m a frequent flier and I’ve written in the past about how hard it is to consistently differentiate the air travel experience to the point where passengers are willing to pay more to fly on a particular brand.
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Mining the network – Facebook works out the most popular places on earth from user check-ins
June 20, 2012 By 2 Comments
Facebook has spent the best part of the past 22 months letting people populate their profile pages with location check-ins made via their mobile devices.
See, hotels do sometimes monitor consumer rants on social media – even FourSquare
April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Travel companies, but especially hotels, have arguably had more tips and ideas for strategy around social media than any other business sector.
WhosWhereWhen promises to bring awesome productivity to travel conferences
April 1, 2012 By 6 Comments
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-base WhosWhereWhen, an amazing new smartphone app to make travel conferences more productive than ever.
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Amadeus outage caused by technical failure during upgrades at Erding data centre
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Details have emerged as to the reason for a technical failure at Amadeus two weeks ago which affected the systems behind dozens of airlines.
Amadeus outage hit other GDSs as airline systems crashed
January 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
The extent of a significant technology failure at Amadeus yesterday is beginning to unravel, as other systems across the industry are now known to have been affected.
Amadeus technology outage hits major airline systems and agency bookings
January 30, 2012 By 4 Comments
Amadeus says a major system failure which is understood to have affected thousands of passengers on Monday has been rectified.
Did Foursquare just kill a bunch of trip planning startups?
January 13, 2012 By 15 Comments
Foursquare this week launched its Explore feature on the web, an effort termed as: “Personalized search for the real world.”
