Why the Priceline plan to buy Kayak should be investigated by regulators

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A UK competition regulator, The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is being kept busy in the travel space right now.

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HotelsCombined closing in on Booking.com – Top Australia travel websites, January 2013

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HotelsCombined is creeping up behind Booking.com in the list of leading travel websites in Australia, although TripAdvisor still dominates the accommodation category.

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The new reality in hotel revenue management – a check-list for 2013

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A new year and many changes are on the horizon that are impacting heavily your hotel’s pricing and distribution strategy.

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Forget flights, Google is quietly adding new features to Hotel Finder as rivals look on (and advertise)

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Think all the love at in the travel division at Google is directed at the Flight Search product? Think again.

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What Else? TripCraft, TouristEye, Venere-HotelsCombined, Dolphin Dynamics-STA, Revoo

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TripCraft spas, TouristEye version two, Venere streams into HotelsCombined, Dolphin Dynamics inks STA tech deal, Reevoo unveils review inspiration… What else is going on in the world of travel tech…

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Skyscanner tries metasearch for package holidays again

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Skyscanner has reintroduced search for package holidays from the likes of Thomas Cook and OnTheBeach, three years after abandoning its previous effort.

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HotelsCombined insists it will not screen scrape for its new Ryanair deal

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Not the best of starts for Ryanair and new accommodation white label provider HotelsCombined, with the metasearch site moving quickly to clarify comments by Michael O’Leary.

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What Else? Vayable grows, Lonely Planet offline, Emirates IFEs, HotelsCombined, Rocco

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Vayable jumps to 200 destinations, Lonely Planet boosts offline apps, Emirates upgrades IFEs, HotelsCombined books with Ostrovok, Rocco opts for IDeaS… A round-up of other stories from across the industry.

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EasyJet forges exclusive deal with Booking.com

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EasyJet has replaced laterooms.com with booking.com as its exclusive hotel provider just weeks after Ryanair dropped the Priceline-owned accommodation specialist.

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Ryanair and Isango best buddies again, create tour and activity selling service

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Ryanair is giving the tour and activity end of its drive to increase ancillary revenues another try – once again through online retailer Isango.

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