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The Latest Google Evil Leveled on Battered Online Travel Businesses

2020-08-27 by Phil Butler

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Google has a knee on the necks of companies like GetYourGuide, Airbnb, and Travago, at a moment when regulators build an anti-trust case.

Tags: Anti-trust, EU fairness commission, EU Google, EU laws, European commission, German Start-ups Association, GetYourGuide, Google, Google evil, Johannes Reck, monopoly, online travel, OTAs, Trivago

OTA Insight Re-shapes Real-time Market Intelligence with Market Insight

2020-06-29 by Argophilia Travel News

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OTA Insight announces the launch of Market Insight, an industry-first predictive market intelligence solution.

Tags: hospitality, Hospitality marketing, hotel market, Market Insight, Market intelligence, online marketing, online travel, OTA Insight, OTAs

GoEuro: At Just the Right Time

2013-05-29 by Phil Butler

Just launched today in beta, GoEuro is a travel search website that lets users plan, organize, and compare their trips across air, rail, bus, and auto travel modes. While no more innovative then your typical metasearch tool, this new startup comes along at just the right time.

Tags: car trips, fare search, GoEuro, Kayak, meta search, mobile search, online travel, rail pass

Acromas Holidays Shuts Doors of Tailor Made Travel

2013-05-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Tailor Made Travel, a division of Acromas Holidays, has officially closed up shop and will take no more bookings.

Tags: AA Getaways, Acromas Holidays, online travel, tourism portal, travel bookings, travel companies

TUI Profits Down – But Europe’s Biggest Tour Company’s Spirit is UP

2013-05-10 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Europe’s leading tour operation, TUI Travel, has just announced their first half of 2013 sales figures. According to TUI losses of some £346 million were actually less than some expected. The company pointed to strong markets in the UK and in Scandinavian countries as having relieved a unprofitable Winter.

Tags: online travel, Peter Long, profit and loss, tour guides, travel companies, travel profits, TUI, TUI profits

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