Understanding the characteristics of a new generation of travel consumers

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Millenials coming into the travel marketplace are displaying vastly different characteristics from the Gen-Y and Gen-X players before them.

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Why Flipboard is a game-changer for travel

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Many marketing managers and business developments managers have invested money and reputation by advocating social networks as means of marketing.

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Google-ITA Software deal: how the web reacted

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The business press, mainstream media and tech world generally goes into meltdown when Mountain View, California’s most famous resident splashes out $700 million on another company.

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Multimillion dollar TripAdvisor Business Listings expands with hotel special offers

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The already lucrative TripAdvisor Business Listings will soon expand into publishing hotels’ special promotions.

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Why Social TV was born to be in the hotel industry

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The hotel sector is beginning to emerge from the slump of recent years and many businesses are looking for new ways to attract the web and media savvy 25-45 year old.

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Expedia’s ups and downs: When will advertising biz eclipse car and cruise?

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It was Halloween evening. The kids were out trick-or treating and the first pitch of game three of the baseball World Series, weather-permitting, was about an hour away.

The perfect nerdy moment to peruse Expedia Inc.’s latest SEC filing.

Advertising and media in third-quarter 2009 was 10% of revenue, and that is definitely trending way up. In fact, air was 12% of revenue. And, car and cruise together were 14% of revenue so perhaps Expedia’s advertising and media business, which still is in its relative infancy, will first eclipse air as a category, and then car and cruise before long.

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