Google study of mobile search behavior reveals travel insights

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Rather than ask people questions, Google tracked the behavior of volunteers.

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Five tips from Expedia on how hotels can convert OTA traffic into bookings in 2013

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Expedia’s Josh Saunders, director of market management, recommends five conversion tactics to maximize your hotel’s return with its online travel agency.

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Revenge of the call center: Travelers are calling hotels more than before, says study

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The travel industry has a huge opportunity to capitalize on phone calls as more consumers call to book trips directly from their smartphones, says a report today by Marchex

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Econsultancy says the top travel INFOGRAPHIC of 2012 was by Monetate

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Out of 700,000 infographics, the digital marketing consulting firm chose Monetate’s as the best for travel. The poster spotlights best practices for customer conversion.

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TagMan shows travel company reluctance for social plug-ins [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Here’s a neat infographic from TagMan demonstrating the impact social media plug-ins can have on purchasing.

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Why companies should not hide from bad reviews

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Most of the stuff you read about negative reviews tends to be advice from marketing agencies on how to listen, react and turn dissenters into ‘brand advocates’ blah blah

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Google sees higher conversions from tablets – cars, sofas and houses among purchases

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Google is witnessing much higher conversion rates from tablet devices such as the iPad than either mobile phones or desktop computers.

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Expedia global websites getting hotel page redesign

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Expedia-branded websites in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand got a makeover of their hotel information pages and the rest of the company’s global websites will get similar redesigns through the first quarter of 2011.

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