PackLate and Tourico Holidays bring online vacation rental bookings to agencies and consumers

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What’s all the fuss about online vacation rentals? PackLate, in partnership with wholesaler Tourico Holidays, has been delivering real-time bookings of vacation rentals at “door level” to travel agencies, tour operators and their consumer websites for a couple of months.

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Priceline, online travel history and complacency

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Sometimes online travel history hits you over the head and you don’t even see it coming.

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Trazzler sells deals platform and refocuses travel writer network on iPhone app

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Trazzler, the travel writer and photographer network, sold its deals-distribution platform.

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OffandAway shuts down, sells assets to social commerce site

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Off & Away, a hotel auction site based in Seattle, terminated doing business and its assets were sold to a social commerce site with no travel product.

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General Catalyst: Still looking for big ideas in travel

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General Catalyst Partners is reportedly raising a boatload of money to continue its investments in technology companies, and online travel remains a keen focus.

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Startups: Five tips for understanding the whole travel ecosystem

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What will define the future travel leaders from the fly-by-nights? I believe a key indicator is to identify the tech-focused innovators that actually know the global travel ecosystem well enough to capture a meaningful portion of it.

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Lonely Planet takes startup route for mobile development, no equity for BBC owner

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Interesting move from Lonely Planet last week with the unveiling of a startup to develop social mobile travel guides

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UsingMiles cofounder charged with bilking investors

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A cofounder of frequent flyer miles tracking site UsingMiles reportedly has been charged with bilking investors out of some $450,000 and putting the money to personal use.

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New travel flash sales site to offer refunds within 8 days

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Yuupon, a new flash-sales site for travel, sounds like Groupon, but claims to be more flexible than other flash sales sites.

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Travel Innovation Summit – live blog

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Live blog and updates from the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit on Tuesday 16 November 2010.

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