RocketMiles woos Atlas Venture for $2 million investment package

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Just a month into a run at the travel industry with its combination of hotel booking and loyalty programmes, RocketMiles has captured its first funding round – $2 million from Atlas Ventures.

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Rocketmiles lets travelers earn thousands of miles by booking hotel rooms

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Coming out of beta today, Rocketmiles is a Chicago startup that says its average customer earns 3,000 frequent flier miles per hotel night.

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Room Key CEO talks partnerships, numbers and value propositions

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Room Key recently announced new partnerships with La Quinta, Millenium Hotels & Resorts, and the Leading Hotels of the World, bringing the total available properties to nearly 50,000. So what does this mean for the fledgling hotel booking engine?

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EuroCheapo fully relaunches its booking website for affordable accommodation

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Today EuroCheapo, the 11-year-old, New York-based website for booking accommodation in popular cities, is holding a massive re-launch that includes fresh branding, a re-design, larger photos, a partnership with TripAdvisor, better hotel search, and loads of other stuff under the hood.

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The empire still rules but Expedia loses contract with hometown VisitSeattle

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Although it isn’t the biggest contract in its portfolio, it has to sting a bit that the Expedia Affiliate Network has lost its contract powering travel services for Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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Nicaraguan tourism board kicks off $3 million marketing campaign

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Seeking to draw more visitors from the US, the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute has kicked off a $3 million marketing campaign.

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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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