Travel Dividends

Mar 10@4:27am

IN-DEPTH: Steve Pinchuk on the usage of metrics for yielding and accounting.

Revenue management professionals quite often get into the RevPAR vs GOPPAR debate.

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Mar 10@4:13am

By Tim Gunstone, Managing Director, EyeforTravel.
Somehow, despite nervous CFOs and minimal investment, brave marketing and distribution professionals have continued to innovate in the online and mobile channels with phenomenal success.

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Mar 10@3:57am

Lowcostholidays.com is on look-out for a new, non-celebrity brand ambassador.

Mar 10@3:36am

Forrester, in its new report, Tapping The Entire Online Peer Influence Pyramid, has referred to a new category of online influencers, consisting of people who create most of the peer impressions about brands in social channels.

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Mar 10@2:53am

Webloyalty has expanded its presence in Europe by launching its operations in Germany. Ryanair has been announced as Webloyalty Germany’s launch client.

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Mar 9@4:54am

IN-DEPTH: Yapta’s CEO Tom Romary on the usage of Twitter for online communication.

Online travel shopping service Yapta.com has made judicial use of social media applications to engage its customers.

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Mar 9@4:42am

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined US Airways $40,000 for violating rules that require airline price advertisements to disclose the full price consumers must pay for air transportation.

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Mar 9@4:34am

Lufthansa has introduced a new social networking application for frequent flyers called MemberScout.

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Mar 9@4:21am

Gowalla, a location-based social networking service, has signed a new agreement with Travel Channel for the integration of proprietary Travel Channel content into its service.

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Mar 8@7:42am

Trip management company TripIt has closed a third round of funding, receiving $7 million from a group of investors led by Azure Capital Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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Mar 8@7:38am

priceline.com says it has become the first major online travel agency to offer a $25 credit card refund to hotel customers who can find a lower price than what they paid on priceline.com.

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Mar 8@7:24am

By Max Starkov.

The latest eTRAK Full Year 2009 report on hotel bookings by channel yet again confirms that today, the online channel is the only growth channel in hospitality. In the difficult economic environment, when travel supply outweighed travel demand by far, Internet bookings for the top 30 hotel brands increased by a remarkable 6.6% in...

Mar 8@5:36am

Google says it has introduced a new feature in search that makes it easier for users to mark and rediscover their favourite web content — stars.

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Mar 5@2:38am

Expedia has reportedly chosen Essence to handle its pan-European digital creative and media planning and buying account, as part of a consolidation of its agency arrangements across 12 European markets.

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Mar 5@2:26am

Virgin America is ready with its new website, replacing the use of Adobe’s technology with similar HTML-based capabilities.

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