DISTRIBUTION – Product news, launches and more – May 2013

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Travelport board of directors approve equity plan.

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TrustYou plugs global review index into GDS workflow

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Travel agents seeking insights into potential properties for customers are often left to search the Internet far and wide to glean perspective on a particular property, a challenge which has been directly addressed by reputation managers TrustYou with their newest product.

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The story of two startups by Terry Jones – Travelocity and Kayak

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Terry Jones was founder of Travelocity and is currently chairman of Kayak. Both companies have made their mark but have developed as businesses in vastly different ways.

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Cautious optimism from Travelport as it edges along growth path

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Travelport continues to show revenue gains as it delivers results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2013

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Swanky new home for Sabre in London – there is opportunity for a video or two in that

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Cast your minds back a few years to when people went (Lady) gaga over Google’s new offices in Zurich, Switzerland – wacky, dripping in technology and colour, and annoying for facility managers across the land.

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Travel distribution news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus – April 2013

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Product news, releases, projects, related analysis and more from the global distribution systems during April 2013 – all here, in one easy read.

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Was hotel marketing always this complicated? Part Three of Three – The marketer reinvented

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Building a direct revenue channel has become paramount to any other marketing effort. And the hotel website is a critical component to selling room nights, preserving rate, and building market share.

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Was hotel marketing always this complicated? Part Two of Three – GDS consolidation and rise of OTAs

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At the onset of the new decade (1990) it became apparent that travel agents were caught in a price battle between the remaining four global distribution systems and the airlines.

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Was hotel marketing always this complicated? Part One of Three – Birth of the GDS

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What was hotel marketing like before the internet? Most marketers would agree these were simpler times.

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Business opportunity: Concur launches branded app center

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The travel app store ecosystem expands yet again, as Concur announces their own branded app center.

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