3rd Planet brings destinations to virtual life with 3D interactive platform

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Singapore-based 3rd Planet, a 3D interactive travel guide platform for tourism boards and destinations.

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BMW plays the trip planning game with Ultimate Drive app

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The buzz in mobile and travel social media is normally around actual travel companies – but here comes BMW, one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world with its own effort.

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Can the latest dip into the global hotel ID swamp work?

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The Travel Technology Initiative recently announced the launch of TTIcodes, an initiative to create “the definitive listing of properties” core information.

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Teaser: First 3D interactive tourism site in the world [VIDEO]

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Fair amount of chatter recently about a new service expected to launch later in 2011 – a 3D interactive guide to destinations around the world.

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TLabs Showcase – Bedmap

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Canada-based hotel search service Bedmap.

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Coming soon: more searches on Google Maps from mobiles than desktops

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A significant milestone is looming in the coming weeks which may well demonstrate the importance of mobile to travel companies and how they communicate with customers.

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Using Google Maps to check for global hotspots before travel

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The availability of some government data in a digital format and open source code for products such as Google Maps allows for some interesting and useful mashups.

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Google StreetView heads into big destination attractions

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Fascinating initiative by Google to take the concept of its StreetView system and throw it at some of the world’s major city cultural hotspots.

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British Airways brings in new flight search and planning system

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Nine months after playing around with a new flight search tool, British Airways has officially added TripSeeker to the main site this week.

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How Google StreetView is killing the competition

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Google Street View is a powerful tool that many people and travel companies use day to day to discover more about a location using on-street images and navigation.

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