Travelomy brings geo-location and real-time updates to travel guides

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring India-based Travelomy, a travel guide using real-time updates and geo-location for the South Asia region.

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GuideHop brings in marketplace for tours and guided activities

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based GuideHop, a peer-to-peer marketplace for tours and guided activities.

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24 hours in the life of an overseas consulate [VIDEO]

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Doubles all round (maybe not the best turn of phrase) at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office today after reporting a fall in the number of arrests of UK citizens abroad.

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KLM builds consumer-led destination guide service

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Consumer-built destination guides are nothing new, but in typical KLM style the Dutch airline has now also entered the fray with its own neat service.

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What are the most influential factors when buying travel?

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Some fascinating data from YPartnership in a study looking at the inspiration, research, search, shopping and buying of travel products by consumers.

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Lonely Planet slashes web team, moves rest to London

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Bad news for the web and digital folk at Lonely Planet with the team taking the brunt of widespread redundancies at the same time as the entire department heads north to London.

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The future of travel guidebooks on tablet devices

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Whether you are in love with them or utterly indifferent, tablet devices such as the iPad are set to be a significant part of the hardware armoury for consumers in the coming years.

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How to decide Paid versus Free for mobile travel apps

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Having worked in the publishing industry for over a decade as a designer, author and editor, I have witnessed some pretty swift transitions from old-style publishing to new.

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Old habits die hard as Simonseeks opts for TV advertising

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Interesting move for travel guide site Simonseeks as it looks to raise its profile with a hefty TV advertising campaign, launching in the UK over the Christmas break.

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Dorling Kindersley moves into high-end iPad travel publishing

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Known for its classy travel guidebooks, Dorling Kindersley (or DK these days) is starting to push its produce Apple iPad versions of its Eyewitness books.

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