The Scan: Skyscanner clocks 10 million app downloads, Priceline brings bidding to mobile, and more news

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More than a third of visits to Skyscanner come through apps, and more items in our rundown of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 20 September.

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Hotels and the web: The Downfall version

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Downfall is an epic war movie filmed by director Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final days of the Third Reich from within Adolf Hitler’s bunker in Berlin.

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Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools

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GuestCentric Systems, finding that some prospective clients were unwilling to pay fixed monthly costs for its hotel-booking engine, implemented a new revenue-share pricing system.

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Solutionz gets social-media centric with GuestCentric Systems

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Solutionz Media, a new venture by travel industry veterans Chicke Fitzgerald and Tiffany Topcik, partnered with GuestCentric Systems to go after business from independent hotels looking to enter into and/or monetize their social media efforts.

Solutionz Media, a unit of the Solutionz Group, will do much of the consulting and strategizing for independent hotels as they implement GuestCentric Systems’ Customer Engagement Platform, which was an entry in PhoCusWright’s recent Travel Innovation Summit in Orlando.

The platform, available in Software as a Service mode for a monthly flat fee, contains marketing and distribution components, including social media monitoring and promotions.

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