Wimdu follows through on host insurance promise

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Wimdu has introduced a global insurance policy for its hosts which will take effect from the beginning of October

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iStopOver to offer Daily Deals — on booking fees

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Peer to peer accommodation specialist iStopOver isn’t going full-throttle into flash sales, but will begin offering Daily Deals with a twist.

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Wimdu to check-in with global insurance, traveller protection to follow

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Wimdu is to follow rival Airbnb with the introduction of a policy to protect property hosts in the next few weeks.

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Why the belle has no clothes at the rental marketplace ball

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Airbnb and the fast-growing number of rental marketplaces seem like the belles of the ball among travel-related web sites this year.

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Airbnb tries to get house back in order, guarantee scheme now effective

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It took a bucket load of bad publicity and at least one trashed property, but Airbnb has finally launched its owner insurance scheme.

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Reality bites – Airbnb told to register as seller of travel

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Is Airbnb merely a “neutral venue” enabling users to arrange stays with one another?

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Why Flight Plus should scare the hell out of online travel

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Online and independent agents in the UK have never faced such a hidden and potentially disastrous regulation reform as Flight Plus.

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A brief history of the UK financial crisis in travel

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For many years the UK had a great system for supporting a stable vertically integrated market – the ATOL protection scheme worked like a charm.

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Three surveys defy woes of UK travel industry, different focus needed?

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The UK travel industry is notorious for beating itself up over issues which perhaps consumers tend to have little knowledge or actually couldn’t care less about.

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Is this the most expensive iPhone travel app on the market?

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At £20 ($30) a download for a month’s service, a new iPhone product from TrafficMaster’s International Rescue could be the priciest travel app around.

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