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Crete’s IQ App Guru Comes Out With “6 Clues” This Time Around

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Crete programmer Fanis Kourtikakis creates another brain-training wonder with “6 Clues” – an app that is hard to put down.

The Hospitality Industry’s COVID-19 Ultimatum: Evolve or Die

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Tourism and hospitality are facing deconstruct. Here’s an encapsulization of the coming battle for survival in a key global industry.

Sabre Corporation All Set to Acquire Innovator Farelogix

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Sabre Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Farelogix, a recognized innovator in the travel industry with advanced offer management and NDC order delivery technology used by many of the world’s leading airlines. Sabre expects that upon close, the acquisition will allow the company to accelerate delivery of its end-to-end NDC-enabled retailing, distribution and fulfillment solutions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Hotelier: Frank Reeves

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The most confusing aspect of hotel technology these days is discerning real innovation from PR buzz. The need to market and sell products and services always skews the reality, but by taking technology (any technology) down into its basic form consumers can sift through the buzz to discover the real value. With this kind of consumer focus, we thought this great breakdown from Avvio might help sort some of the confusion. 

How Should Travel Professionals Use Big Data?

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HotelsPro, a technology and reservation solutions provider for travel industry professionals and a brand of the world’s leading travel and accommodation supplier MetGlobal Group of Companies, announced the key points about the accurate and efficient usage of big data which enable travel professionals to touch the customers properly.

Brandwatch Report on Social Listening a Head Turner for Hospitality

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Brandwatch, the most powerful social media monitoring and analytics tool we’ve found, just released their travel and hospitality report for 2014 – Social Listening & the Tourism Industry: A Snapshot. The detailed report amounts to the first of its kind primer for travel executives to understand the impacts of social media on traveler decision making.

Selected London Hotel Images from Google Plus

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Reading the Google News ticker this morning we ran into some extraordinary images via hotel pages on G +, so we thought we would share. For the travel enthusiast, there is perhaps no imagery more effective than the views of and from a hotel. For the hotelier, imagery is certainly the Holy Grail of media. Let’s look at some extraordinary examples from random hotels.

OTA Package Deal Races On

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News from Orbitz Chicago headquarters tells of the company’s latest partnering deal with Hawaiian Airlines, a private labeling solution supposed to power hotel and vacation packaging bookings. The prospective “win-win” being Obritz on the airline’s website, and Hawaiian taking advantage of Orbitz leverage.