Mr & Mrs Smith hops on Qwiki, an app for making videos on the fly

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The luxury hotel platform is an early adopter of Qwiki, an app that turns pictures and videos captured on an iPhone into quickly-edited movies for sharing and that has been downloaded 125,000 times since its launch last week.

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Forget Street View: HeliView adds an aerial twist on hotel shopping and boosts conversion rates

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Users of a German OTA can fly from hotel to hotel, comparing properties, using an overhead tour of destinations based on aerial videos shot by helicopter.

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How consumers use their mobiles when travelling [INFOGRAPHIC]

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We are constantly told how travellers are using their mobile devices to search and (increasingly) book travel, share multimedia content, etc.

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Three take aways for online travel in search engine visibility

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There’s lots of insightful stuff in Epiphany’s report into the travel sector so we’ll just dwell a while on three conclusions from the study

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Trip planning by video — Brazil takes vacation research to YouTube and mobile game

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Chalk one up for Brazilian tourism board Embratur in getting creative about travel inspiration and trip planning.

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Cityzeum snaps up audio tours and video specialists, plots international expansion

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France-based travel planning service Cityzeum Travel Group has acquired audio tours and video content specialists Pocketvox and Navigaia

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Finally a Google travel channel — from YouTube

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The travel industry has been waiting for Google to launch a travel channel and it finally has one — from YouTube.

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Getaroom.com puts Facebook fans in video mode

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In one fell swoop, getaroom.com figured out a way to increase viewership of its commercials, boost its Facebook fan base, increase interaction with consumers, bump up traffic on its blog and plug a hotel partner.

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