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Sabre and Google Develop Industry-First AI Technology for Travel

2020-11-02 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre Corporation

Sabre Corporation and Google have jointly developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technology platform.

Tags: Google AI, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI, Google Technology, Google Travel, Sabre Corporation, Sabre holdings, Sundar Narasimhan, travel technology

TripAdvisor Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Transparency Report

2019-09-17 by Argophilia Travel News

TripAdvisor® has published its first-ever Review Transparency Report showing over 1m fake reviews being blocked from the site in 2018.

Tags: customer reviews, destination reviews, Facebook, fake reviews, Google Travel, tourism reviews, travel reviews, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews, TripAdvisor Transparency Report

Google Maps Helps You Roll-on Thanksgiving Travel

2018-11-20 by Delia Gavrilescu

Google News Lab

The folks at Google are trying to solve for “X” again with a Google Maps feature called “Mapping Thanksgiving.”

Tags: Google, Google Maps, google news, Google Travel, Polygraph, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving airport, Thanksgiving trends

City Mapper: An Idea Worth the Big VC Bucks

2014-04-21 by Phil Butler

Citymapper

Tnooz reported last week the urban transport app Citymapper having received Series A funding from Balderton Capital and other VC of $10 million. Taking a closer look it’s pretty easy to see why the app is worth the big bucks.

Tags: Azmat Yusuf, Citymapper, Google Travel, mapping startup, route planners, tech startup, travel directions, travel startup, VC

Google Refines Top City Attractions Search Results

2013-05-20 by Mihaela Lica Butler

google travel search

With this move, Google rendered SEO useless. Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor, Nileguide, Virtual Tourist, Igougo and so on are now buried. They still can compete as apps, but the Google search results are no longer enough to drive traffic and readers.

Tags: Google search, Google Travel

Big OTAs and Big Hotels in Price Fixing Lawsuit

2012-08-22 by Phil Butler

Class action versus OTAs

A federal lawsuit naming the likes of Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Travelocity, Trump International Hotels Management, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Sabre Holdings, Priceline, Marriott, Starwood, and Hilton alleges the companies conspired to fix hotel room prices. According to the news from Reuters, the suit claims the travel giants did so in an effort to fend off competition from smaller online retailers.

Tags: Booking.com, buuteeq, Expedia, FairSearch, Global Hotel Exhange, Google, Google Travel, Hilton, hotels, InterContinental, ITA, Kimpton, Marriott, online travel, Orbitz, OTA's, price fixing, Priceline, rate parity, room prices, Sabre holdings, Starwood, Travelocity, treovi, Trump International Hotels Management

Should Google Buy Travelzoo?

2012-04-10 by Phil Butler

Larry Page ponders Travelzoo buy.

What could Google do with Travelzoo (NASDAQ:TZOO)? This is the question some insiders may be asking if reports of the beleaguered travel deal company’s sale ring true. Having had shared plummet over 70 percent since last year, Travelzoo would seem ripe for the picking, but just who’s plucking online booking portals these days? Reuters has it the company is seeking advisers on a potential sell.

Tags: Google, Google purchases, Google Travel, market deal, sell, Slide, stock market, stock sale, stock tips, travel companies, travel market, Travelzoo, Zagat

Google Search: Concerts & Mind’s Eye Travel Boosts

2012-02-25 by Phil Butler

Santorini pop up and expanded search function

Google’s seemingly never ending list of improvements and refinements to search received the latest “tweak” with concert information in real time. Released yesterday with little or no fanfare, Google users can now see live concert and artist info including; dates, venues, and links to sites offering tickets. Tools for locals and tools for travel come to light in the last two days.

Tags: concert data, concert info, Google search, Google tools, Google Travel, image discovery, image search, Kavi Goel, travel imagery, travel images, travel info, travel tools

Google Flight Search Moves to Mobile

2012-02-22 by Liliana Steffens

Google Flight Search

Good news for the die hard Google user, the world’s biggest Internet player has just announced Google Flight Search for Android and iOS devices. The company says these mobile variants offer all the functionality and benefits of the desktop platform. According to a post on the official Google blog, since launching Flight Search back in […]

Tags: airline flights, airlines, flight searches, flying, Google blog, Google Flight Search, Google services, Google Travel, travel technology

Who’s the Big Bad Wolf of Hotel Marketing?

2012-01-26 by Phil Butler

The big bad wolf of online travel

Just out, the Distribution Channel Analysis study via the American Hotel Lodging Association (AH&LA) and STR, has been released. The detailed study, supposedly aimed at helping “all” hoteliers better understand hotel room distribution, discusses distribution channel mix, among other salient hotel profitability instances. But, is the study really meant for all hoteliers, or just the fat cats?

Tags: advertising, American Hotel Lodging Association, Expedia commissions, franchise fees, Google, Google ads, Google evil, Google hotel finder, Google market, Google Travel, Hilton, hotel, hotel brands, hotel distribution, hotel franchises, Hyatt, IHG, Larry Page, Madigan Pratt & Associates, marketing, marketing channels, Marriott, Mr & Mrs Smith, online travel, OTA's, pay per click, ppc, propoganda, Roomkey, search marketing pay per click, Sergey Brin, STR, Tamara Heber-Percy, TripAdvisor, update, Wyndam

Google Hotel Finder Adds “Search by Travel Time”

2012-01-23 by Mike Wheatley

google hotel finder

Google Hotel Finder has finally rolled out some of its much-anticipated ‘innovation’, in the form of a new search parameter than allows us to search for hotels by travel time from key attractions and destinations

Tags: filter hotels by travel time, Google, Google hotel finder, Google Maps, Google Travel, hotel finder, hotels, Hotels by Travel Time, ITA, online hotels, Search by Travel Time, search hotels by travel time, travel time

HotelMaps: Clean, Clear Alternative for Hotel Finding

2012-01-05 by Phil Butler

HotelMaps landing.

Sparkly clean accomodation finder HotelMaps is a welcome surprise to the space being dominated by Google and Hipmunk currently. The German startup affords users an interactive experience that leads to a no nonsense booking experience. For those in search of simplicity and accuracy in hotel finding, HotelMaps appears to be a winner.

Tags: Andreas Bogen, Foursquare, Google, Google hotel finder, Google Maps, Google Travel, Hipmunk, Hotel Moselpark Eventresort, HotelMaps, Hotels Combined, Micheal Bogen

Will Expedia’s “Verified” Reviews Fly?

2012-01-02 by Phil Butler

Expedia losing ground

Last week, Danny King over at Travel Weekly hit the nail on the head with his assessment of Expedia’s so called “verified” review system. Expedia Verified Reviews attempts to qualify hotel reviews using “use” of Expedia as a criteria. Having pushed TripAdvisor from the OTA nest on its own, Expedia seems intent on milking the last drop from the user review teat.

Tags: Danny King, Expedia, Expedia stock, Google, Google flights, Google Travel, hotel finder, market, option monster, Priceline.com, reviews, stocks, travel reviews, Travel Weekly, TripAdvisor, verifiable reviews

Twigmore Puts People First in Travel

2011-11-27 by Phil Butler

Twigmore

A new startup called Twigmore is aimed directly at putting people and their real impressions of “places” in the correct order. Unlike many “geocentric” travel tools, this new entry tries to arrange for local review wisdom for your trip planning. At least this seems like the gist.

Tags: Facebook travel, Giulia Cozzolino, Google Travel, Muriel Devillers, opinions, Opinno, Orli Yakuel, reviews, TechCrunch, travel opinions, travel startup, travel tools

WTM: 2011 Money Generation Machine

2011-11-07 by Rigas Pantos

WTM Facebook badge

Travel Daily News reported this morning, the start of this week’s World Travel Market in London, the leading worldwide travel industry event, welcomed some 183 new exhibitors for 2011. From national tourism boards, destination management companies, to technology entities and beyond, ExCeL, London is the place to be November 7 through 10.

Tags: Google Travel, London, Rate Tiger, RateTiger, Reed Travel Exhibitions, Tnooz, travel conference, Travel Daily, Travel Daily News, travel industry, World Travel Market, WTM, WTM Facebook, WTM London, WTM Twitter

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