The SCAN – Room 77 mobile optimized, Superbox expands, Changi airport award and more travel tech news

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Travel tech updates from Luxe Nomad, DestinAsian, Goibibo, RateTiger, TripAdvisor, Cleartrip, Room 77, SITA, Qantas, ANA and more.

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Big Data in travel: Rubber hitting the road, but only for some

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Big data and how it will have a massive impact on the travel industry – yup, we’ve been hearing an awful lot about that over the course of the past 18 months or so.

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Travel Tech Scan: Asia Pacific hotel management boom, Air Canada goes budget, in-flight bikini dance, and more

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The next two years will be a boom time for hotel management in Asia Pacific despite the economic turmoil, according to new studies and announcements, while a Vietnamese airline gets fined for having an in-flight bikini dance.

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Tnooz-Amadeus Webinar: VIDEO – The impact of the always-connected traveler

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The mobile device is now part of everyday life and becoming the hub for all traveler activity, replacing PC, telephone, kiosk, boarding pass.

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Tnooz-Amadeus FREE Webinar: The impact of the always-connected traveler

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The mobile device is now part of everyday life and becoming the hub for all traveler activity, replacing PC, telephone, kiosk, boarding pass.

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Tnooz Nuggets – Wednesday 28 September 2011

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In this edition: Etihad goes wifi, Android app and new site, Pmweb and Buuteeq unite, Jets2Holidays and Affiliate Window.

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Choice Hotels targets UK, France and Germany with cloud-based property management system

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U.S.-based Choice Hotels is pushing into Australia and Europe with what it claims is an attractive technology advantage — a cloud-based property management platform.

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The rise of social media and customer monitoring in travel

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Clarabridge is the latest company trying to capitalise on what appears to be a growing need from travel and tourism companies to understand reviews and feedback by customers.

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Choice Hotels see online travel agency dynamic as potentially disruptive

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A year-and-a-half after a public dust-up with Expedia, Choice Hotels is making strides in driving more revenue through its own website.

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Choice Hotels-Expedia agree to new contract in blink of an eye

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After a tiff that went public less than a month ago, Choice Hotels and Expedia Inc. reached a new three-year agreement, which should have the hotel franchisor’s properties back on Expedia’s and hotels.com’s more than 80 websites within a week or so.

And, Choice-affiliated properties that want to participate in Expedia’s opaque channel, Hotwire, will be able to do so a later juncture, the companies stated.

From all outward appearances, it looks like Choice Hotels, despite its bluster, is the party that blinked in this skirmish, which seemingly revolved around last-room availability and rate parity.

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