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Italy Welcomes Movolo: Point-of-interest Travel Booking

Mihaela Lica Butler

Movolo, the only search and booking engine that makes door-to-door travel booking a simple process across multiple places with or without an airport, has recently launched its Italian version.

14 years ago

US Airways Sabre Deal Calms Travel War Waters

Phil Butler

In airline travel news, US Airways just announced the signing of a multi year contract for full content distribution and merchandising with Sabre Travel Network. This latest news, pertinent to the ongoing wars between the various online agents and service providers, is at least a positive sign for global distribution players.

14 years ago

Room 77 Shows Your Hotel Room View Before You Get There

Aleksandr Shatskih

Room 77, a new visionary Internet start-up, has created a web application and iPhone app that will show you the exact view you will get from your hotel room.

14 years ago

The Digital Future of Hospitality: ConnectedHotel TV by Swisscom

Mihaela Lica Butler

ConnectedHotel TV, developed in partnership with LG, is the first all-in-one hospitality solution that delivers TV, VoD, wired and wireless HSIA through one network and one single device.

14 years ago

TripAdvisor & Others at HotelWebsiteMarketing Conferences

Phil Butler

HotelWebsiteMarketing.com has announced a series of conferences to take place across Europe in May and June, 2011. Also, TripAdvisor, Availpro.com, Meetingsbooker.com, reviewPro.com, TIG Global, and other leading travel companies have joined the conferences to speak and contribute. The focus will be on hotel sales, marketing, revenue and e-commerce, among the many other topics.

14 years ago

Stay.com Lets Users Roll Their Own Travel

Phil Butler

Norwegian travel startup Stay.com release their version 2.3. As a mid-term development release, what Stay offered up was fairly significant. Stay.com affords users unparalelled tools for building, sharing, and printing their own personal travel literature, and great hotel deals as well.

14 years ago

Online Travel Warfare To End Soon

Phil Butler

The war in online travel over basically who gets what & when continues this week with Delta Airlines snatching seats from Rick Seaney’s FareCompare, American Airlines going hog wild trying to engage on their own, and Google outlining (see Matt Cutts video below) how they can manually crucify websites for SPAM. Meanwhile travelers just want some price break justice.

14 years ago

Lakestar Media Toting SEO for Journeys of Distinction

Aleksandr Shatskih

Journeys of Distinction, the provider of worldwide luxury escorted tours, just announced that it has selected Lakestar Media has been given the task to improving its digital marketing and search engine optimization.

14 years ago

Tnooz’s THack Uncovers Some Tech Greatness

Phil Butler

Travel Technology Europe wrapped up earlier this week in London, and what was revealed is pretty significant for ongoing travel developments. Tnooz’s THack initiative in particular uncovered and showcased some extraordinary travel technology assets. Voice enabled travel search, advanced API use tools, and even superior advertising solutions were offered, among the many other cutting edge technologies.

14 years ago

Opodo Deal Worth Over Half a Billion

Phil Butler

Just about every news outlet in Europe is all a buzz about private equity firm Axa, and Permira headed for a deal to buy Amadeus’ Opodo. The OTA started in Germany in 2001, if the deal goes through as suggested, will be worth between $500 and $700 million. An unnamed source at Amadeus IT Holding SA told Reuters the sketch details of the negotiations.

14 years ago

iBAHN Secures a $20 Million for Distribution of IPTV Platform

Aleksandr Shatskih

iBAHN, the world’s leader in digital entertainment and Internet solutions for hospitality, has secured a $20 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase & Co. The new multi-year credit allows for continued growth and installation of iBAHN’s IPTV platform throughout premium hotels around the world.

14 years ago

Carlson Wagonlit Buys Finland’s Kaleva Travel

Aleksandr Shatskih

Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the world’s largest business travel management player, has just announced the full share purchase of Finland’s Kaleva Travel. Kaleva, Finland’s leading business travel agency.

14 years ago

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