The SCAN: Vayama starts a US road show, Starwood is a digital star, and more

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The international metasearch site is trying to raise awareness among US consumers by meeting them in person, Starwood came out tops in a ranking of hotel brands by digital competence, and more travel tech news.

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RIP Travelllll – quirky name, plenty of content, potentially a large, vociferous and captive audience

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Somewhat ironic that in the week that BBC sold Lonely Planet to a little known digital publishing house that a site created to cover issues affecting travel writers and blogging revealed it would be closing.

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Travel blogging calendar project falls flat, organisers blame rest of travel blogging community

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Creators of a calendar featuring travel bloggers in various states of undress have turned on their peers for not supporting the initiative after sales fell short of expectations.

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Oh my goodness – Men of Travel Blogging Calendar for 2013 [women version also available]

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Tnooz has covered (often stirred) the various debates about the rise of bloggers as a force within the world of content in online travel.

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Seen the new Expedia campaign before but by another company? You will have in India

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Three weeks ago Expedia revealed its first major new ad campaign in years, replacing the arguably hollow (and linguistically awkward) “Where You Book Matters”.

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Expedia focuses on travel bloggers in new Find Yours ad campaign

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It wasn’t all about ROI, innovation and quality of content at the recent TBEX extravaganza in the US – Expedia chose the event to launch a new ad campaign dedicated to bloggers.

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Three questions travel bloggers must address right now

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The annual TBEX networking shindig is over and several hundred hopeful travel blogtrepreneurs (*) are heading back down from the rarefied air of Keystone, Colorado.

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Two tourism industry problems that travel bloggers can solve

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The profession of travel blogging is apparently on the rise (defined as those who find employment through writing travel blogs).

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Travel bloggers – time to stop navel gazing and get on with the job. Please

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The early to mid-1990s saw an explosion of exciting, creative and independent (indie, not signed to major record labels) bands in the UK.

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