Flight and hotel search service Hipmunk is now offering direct bookings for hotels via both its website and mobile offerings.
Measuring aggravation: The Congestion Index identifies the world’s worst roads
April 5, 2013 By 7 Comments
GPS navigation provider TomTom can provide a quick solution by diverting customers around any congestion. Given the trove of data that the company has around the world’s congestion, TomTom has created the Congestion Index.
Alive and oriented: German startup socializes, gamifies goal attainment
March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A new startup called Alive is taking a social angle on goal attainment that brings in a person’s network to provide moral support – and to layer a game element on the whole process by offering badges, points and, eventually, real-world rewards for achieving set goals.
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In a Q&A, Tourism Australia reveals the secrets of its Facebook dominance
February 27, 2013 By 17 Comments
Here’s the story on how Tourism Australia unlocked Facebook success by creating the world’s most popular tourism destination page, with 4,140,975 likes.
Jetsetting smartphones could be even smarter with this innovative phone case
February 18, 2013 By 10 Comments
Smartphones often don’t live up to their names for travelers spending a significant time in foreign countries – SIM chips are hard to change, roaming charges are expensive, and data fees are even more so. A new Kickstarter has emerged this weekend that attempts to solve this traveler’s dilemma: the SIMPLcase.
EO Travel Roller: Some roll in there, but needs a little bit more to be a rock star
January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tech accessorizer Incase has recently announced the EO Travel, a new line of luggage targeting the short-term, gadget-heavy traveler.
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The Scan: Frontier Airlines redesigns its site, and more travel tech news
January 8, 2013 By 2 Comments
Today’s roundup of travel trade news briefs includes Frontier Airlines, Priceline, Foursquare, Digital Spring, Mr & Mrs Smith, Visit Finland, Navigate Media Group, Travel Supermarket, Sunshine, Booking.com, Go Pro Travelling, Drive.sg, Target Rooms, Waymate, Wego, Webjet, Onyx, RateGain, LocalUncle, mTrip, Babbel, and Interhome.
A new way to stay: Startup Stay connects galavanting entrepreneurs together with locals
November 29, 2012 By 17 Comments
The idea is that like attracts like, and that both hosting and stay with other entrepreneurs can invigorate ideas, encourage connections, and facilitate cross-pollination across segments and industries.
Unused vacation days: The fall travel marketing opportunity
September 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
A new survey shows that Americans have a lot of vacation days to use up by the end of the year, providing a targeted marketing opportunity to savvy travel marketers across the world.
Travelzoo blasts daily deals sites for unsustainable practices
April 19, 2012 By 5 Comments
Travelzoo CEO Chris Loughlin blasted the competition in the daily deals space for unsustainable practices and acknowledged that the company’s Local Deals business is “hindered in the short term by industry dynamics.”
