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Hotels.com New Deals Facebook App Makes Travel More Social

Aleksandr Shatskih

Hotels.com® has launched its new Deals Facebook app, which delivers customized deals based on user preferences and friend activity.

13 years ago

Treovi Unveils “Commission-Free” Hotel Booking Platform

Aleksandr Shatskih

Booking a hotel online is easy enough for the average ‘internet-savvy’ consumer these days, but finding a room that’s cheap? That’s an altogether different kettle of fish…

13 years ago

MapsofWorld Presents: The Olympic Saga

Aleksandr Shatskih

London 2012 is coming up and MapsofWorld has decided to offer up a mapped out history of the Olympic Games. Cartography, technology and data research are applied to this informative from MapsofWorld with their launch of “The Olympics Saga.” The map plots not only the locations of each Summer games, but also points of particular interest bout specific events, including mascots.

13 years ago

Renthome.ru Expands With Angel Round + Digital Strategy

Aleksandr Shatskih

Renthome.ru, an online resource for independent travelers offering short-term vacation rentals across Russia and the CIS, has received approximately $1 million in angel investment. Participants in this round of investment include Russian and international entrepreneurs, as well as investors from the real estate market and finance sector.

13 years ago

Stay.com App Updates Travel

Aleksandr Shatskih

Stay.com, which was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 websites in 2010, offers a new collaborative travel app that allows users to navigate a ‘city in their pocket’ by downloading their own guides for use offline, saving on international data charges. Each combines advice from Stay.com’s international travel experts, partner sites, input from fellow travelers and friends and users’ own preferences. The Stay.com app can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store, Google Play and www.stay.com.

13 years ago

Tourism Companies Get Customized Social Media Services

Aleksandr Shatskih

Public relations agencies Mirror Communications and PRwave International have partnered to design customized social media packages for the tourism industry, aiming to help small and medium sized companies in this segment better tap in the potential of the community they target.

13 years ago

Expanding Horizons with Touristlink

Aleksandr Shatskih

Ask any frequent globetrotter what their biggest annoyances are whilst they’re out and about gallivanting across the world, and you can be sure that getting ripped off by dodgy tour operators is right up there on their list.

13 years ago

Oktogo.ru Ranks Among the Top 10 Russian Internet Brands

Mihaela Lica Butler

Oktogo.ru has been recently included in The Top 10 Russian Internet Brands Out to Conquer the World by The Moscow Times.

13 years ago

Foursquare on Steroids: Grafetee’s Mobile App

Aleksandr Shatskih

Launched early in 2012, Grafetee is a smart location-based mobile app designed for people to both bookmark (they call it Worldmarking) and share real places, as well as for websites to display useful content when others are looking for it. All free and all via smart devices.

13 years ago

Treovi To Revolutionize the Online Hotel Industry

Aleksandr Shatskih

Revolutionizing the online hotel industry, Treovi reservation service recently announced their main objective of excluding all existing online commissions and founding an equitable collaboration between hotels and their customers. Now this is news.

13 years ago

Travel Planning Site Hipmunk Gets $15M in Funding

Aleksandr Shatskih

Travel planning site Hipmunk has just received 15 million USD in its second round of investment led by led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).

13 years ago

New Romania Traveler’s Guide App Released

Aleksandr Shatskih

Romania Traveler’s Guide, a fresh app for the iOS and Android smartphone and tablet operating systems has just been launched, helping tourists discover the most popular destinations of the Eastern European country. Created by Lonely Planet author Leif Pettersen, the app focuses on some of Romania’s top tourist destinations, Bucharest, Brasov, Sighisoara, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca and Suceava. […]

13 years ago

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