Did you hear? Even Groupon is moving away from the daily deal business.
Secret Escapes secures £8 million, plots international expansion
October 15, 2012 By 3 Comments
Luxury flash sales site Secret Escapes has won £8m in new funding with Index Ventures leading the round
Yabbedoo seeks to disrupt with local deals and travel news service
August 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yabbedoo is setting itself a huge challenge – to disrupt the industry by providing its special deals platform incorporating geo-location as well an industry news and information service for travel companies looking for that competitive edge as well as travellers and locals
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Travel Onion peels off skin to reveal daily deal move
July 18, 2012 By 4 Comments
Travel Onion, a three-year old, US-based startup, relaunched this month to become an aggregation service for about 120 daily deals sites along with blogs and contests.
Ground transport – the exciting new battleground in travel distribution
June 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
When it comes to disruptive forces in travel distribution, 2010-2011 seemed to be largely about airlines, GDS’s, GNE’s (the so called Genies), direct connects, and full content agreements.
Travelzoo blasts daily deals sites for unsustainable practices
April 19, 2012 By 5 Comments
Travelzoo CEO Chris Loughlin blasted the competition in the daily deals space for unsustainable practices and acknowledged that the company’s Local Deals business is “hindered in the short term by industry dynamics.”
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Do flash sales level playing field for independent hotels?
April 17, 2012 By 12 Comments
Which sectors of the hospitality industry are dabbling the most in travel flash sales? Independent hotels and then alternative property types such as inns and B&Bs — that’s who.
Tech to cut through the glut of daily deals – for hoteliers and consumers
February 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
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
Groupon prices IPO at $13B valuation with travel swagger in the mix
November 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Groupon priced its shares for its IPO debut today at a higher-than-expected $20 per share and at least one analyst urged investors to jump in based in part on the company’s evolving travel business.
iStopOver to offer Daily Deals — on booking fees
August 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
Peer to peer accommodation specialist iStopOver isn’t going full-throttle into flash sales, but will begin offering Daily Deals with a twist.
