DISTRIBUTION – Product news, launches and more – May 2013

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Hotels.com has appointed Stuart Silberg to the position of Chief Technology Officer.

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TrustYou plugs global review index into GDS workflow

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Travel agents seeking insights into potential properties for customers are often left to search the Internet far and wide to glean perspective on a particular property, a challenge which has been directly addressed by reputation managers TrustYou with their newest product.

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Tnooz-eNett-MasterCard webinar VIDEO: How travel payments are transforming the industry

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Do you understand the true costs of travel payments, how to reduce your exposure to credit card fraud and surcharges or how virtual cards work?

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Cautious optimism from Travelport as it edges along growth path

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Travelport continues to show revenue gains as it delivers results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2013

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Numbers point north for Amadeus in first financials of 2013 despite challenging marketplace

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Amadeus has announced its year-on-year financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2013 (three months ended March 31, 2013).

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Back to school with Big Data – how the web defines it

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Is Big Data just a large collection of data sets, or is it a wider level a process to provide a better understanding and take advantage of products or customers?

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Sabre enhances merchandising capabilities with Custom Offers

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Sabre has released technology enabling hotels and airlines to put together personalised offers for customers

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Swanky new home for Sabre in London – there is opportunity for a video or two in that

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Cast your minds back a few years to when people went (Lady) gaga over Google’s new offices in Zurich, Switzerland – wacky, dripping in technology and colour, and annoying for facility managers across the land.

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A new problem for OTAs: Airline websites are outselling them in the US

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For the first time, more US fliers say they typically use airline websites to book airplane tickets than they use OTAs, says a new study from travel consultancy PhoCusWright.

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Travelport gets a new chairman, picks up Zuji for distribution after Travelocity sale

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Changes at board level for Travelport as a new chairman is unveiled to replace Jeff Clarke and a number of new directors join following the recent completion of its refinancing.

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