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Airlines’ customer engagement on social media is critical to success

Forget being put on hold on the phone – customers today make a beeline for the airlines’ social media handles and work their way from there. From updates on crises, […]

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Exploring the rise of Mega Online Travel Retailers

NB: This is an article from Amadeus Online travel shoppers are often oblivious to which site they use to make a purchase, whether it is a metasearch or an OTA […]

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Airbnb Trips presents airlines with a digital ancillary revenue masterclass

For any airline concerned about keeping control of their relationships with their customers and leveraging digital channels to boost ancillary revenues, the launch of Airbnb’s “Trips” should serve as a wake-up […]

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Why mobile micro-moments and dayparting are the trends to watch in 2017

As 2016 draws to a close, there has been one movement that has surpassed them all during the last 12 months – mobile. There are more than 128 million Google […]

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5 Ways to Drive Direct Bookings for the Modern Traveler

How do young, modern travelers behave online? What connects to them, and how can your hotel use that information to drive direct bookings through your hotel website? Google’s Consumer Barometer […]

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3 Fundamental Practices of Metasearch Management

We all know the power of 101 – fundamental knowledge. In practice, what is fundamental leads to advanced applications and continuous pursuit of improvement. Today we wanted to share some […]

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Using online information to define and refine your hotel competitive edge

The tourism trade contributed about US$7.2 trillion to the global economy in 2015, and with so much wealth at stake, you can be certain that the accommodation market is going […]

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Google Online Travel Adventure Upsets Its Biggest Advertisers

At the largest online travel conference last week, industry executive Steve Hafner was asked an unusual question: What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think about Google? “Annoying,” […]

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Hotels, Let’s Go Direct!

It is not an astonishing piece of news anymore that online bookings play a key role in the hospitality industry, bypassing the offline channel of bookings tremendously. The trend has […]

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Hotels need to get innovative if they want guests to “stop clicking around”

The decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to enshrine rate parity between hotels and Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) has created a new impetus for the hotel sector […]

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