
It’s a decision we at Tnooz confront literally every day — when to write about a just-published travel app and when to take a pass on it.

It’s a decision we at Tnooz confront literally every day — when to write about a just-published travel app and when to take a pass on it.

Being located 17 hours ahead of Silicon Valley often has you lagging behind on the big news. On waking the other morning at home in Melbourne, Australia, the inbox and Twitters were abuzz – Google had launched a flight search product.
Personalisation, simplicity, convenience, transparency, swiftness… new startups promise all this and more as they jointly strive to create a new era in the travel sector.

Hipmunk is a US-based flight (and now hotel) search engine, which first featured on Tnooz in August 2010. So what happened in the intervening 12 months?
Hipmunks are nothing if not agile — witness Hipmunk’s use of rectangles to refine your hotel search on a Google Map.

With the prospect of Google soon launching a flight-search product, Hipmunk is expressing its immunity from competitive swirls.

What will Hipmunk come up with next? The flight and hotel search engine just placed a recharging station in Portland Airport to take the agony out of handling a laptop, tablet or smartphone with no juice.

Hipmunk released an iPad app which offers larger results to better decipher airline names and access more itinerary details.

Big Data – we’re all talking about it, wondering how it will make its presence felt across the travel industry, who is best positioned to capitalise on it?

RFID, augmented reality, smart search, technology beyond social media and check-ins – more disruption is on its way in the travel industry.

Metasearch, voice search, agency search, supplier search – how consumers find and book travel products has never been more complicated.

Payment experts from Wright Express, Expedia and HotelTonight showcase and discuss how single-use virtual accounts can help drive efficiencies in the payment and settlement process in travel.
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