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Q1 Profit and Loss: Weeding Out the OTAs

2014-05-09 by Phil Butler

In a 2014 economy seemingly stagnated OTAs and other travel businesses are feeling some pain. This is not the case for Priceline Group, which just showed a 1st quarter earnings jump of some 36% on international bookings. However, this company’s gain is evidently Orbitz’s and other digital travel business loss. Are we seeing a “weeding out” of good travel entities versus bad ones?

Tags: booking sites, Booking.com, Expedia, lastminute.com, Orbitz, OTA's, SABR, Sabre, travel sites, Travelocity

Triptease is Really, Really, the Future of Travel Reviews

2013-03-07 by Phil Butler

Triptease finished review

Now that my invite to travel Triptease has been mailed, received, and opened, the latest in a line of online travel tools gets a bit of Argo love, or hate, depending. If ever you feverishly desired making a magazine from your travels, Triptease may just be your dream come true. Let’s find out 1 -2 -3.

Tags: travel reviews, travel sites, travel tech, travel tools

WorldVentures Unveils DreamTrips Rewards

2013-01-21 by Mike Wheatley

WorldVentures

On Friday, WorldVentures announced their latest empowerment of members with their DreamTrips™ Reward Program. According to their announcement, new members who join before April 30 will receive points redeemable toward costs of curated vacations.

Tags: deals, promotions, travel deals, travel sites, trips

Wiki Wars Erupt as WikiVoyage Readies For Launch

2013-01-14 by Mike Wheatley

A number of reports are suggesting that the Wikimedia Foundation is preparing to launch its own travel website later this week, which is expected to become a direct competitor to the popular WikiTravel website.

Tags: Jimmy Wales, travel site, travel sites, Wikimedia foundation, Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikivoyage

Treovi To Revolutionize the Online Hotel Industry

2012-06-13 by Miruna Corneanu

Treovi Hotel bookings

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.

Tags: booking, Expedia, free booking, free reservation service, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, guest booking, guests, hotel booking, hotel industry, hotels, online hotels, online travel booking, OTA's, Roomkey, Tnooz, travel sites, treovi

Online Travel: Translation & Localization Walk Hand in Hand

2012-03-15 by Guest Author

Translated means, we speak your language

Travel and tourism has always been one of the fastest growing business sectors worldwide. Even in these difficult times, leisure activities across the globe serve investors and the people who travel well.

Tags: foreign language, language tools, translate, translation, travel sites, travel tools, travel translation

Top 10 Travel Sites of 2011

2011-11-07 by Liliana Steffens

travlrapp screeshot

Some travel startups were extensively praised on mainstream media, others, were less fortunate, but their value is still there.

Tags: top 10, top 10 travel sites, travel sites, travel startups

Smart Travel with Smart Destinations

2011-11-06 by Phil Butler

Price Lake and Grandfather Mountain.

Argo Travel News decided to make every Sunday into a new series, “Service Sunday” in honor of all those great travel services out there worth checking out. Today, we spotlight Smart Destinations, one of the world’s top sightseeing portals online.

Tags: Asheville, bargain tickets, Biltmore, Blue Ridge Mountains, Cecilia Dahl, Explore Asheville, Go Blue Ridge Card, Kevin McLaughlin, New Spring Capital, ticket packages, tour companies, tour guides, tour tickets, tours, travel destinations, travel sites

Orbitz May Finally Be A Best Buy

2011-09-19 by Phil Butler

Orbitz logo

Orbitz announcements of deals and personnel changes, like most such corporate news fodder, would not ordinarly be a sign of anything big in the offing. However, with a closing price of $2.40 on Friday, and the inherent value underneath, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this stock is on the way up.

Tags: best stocks, opening prices, Orbitz, stock prices, stocks, travel, travel deals, travel sites, travel startups, travel stocks, Travelport

Google Restaurant Finder? Well, Not Quite Yet

2011-09-08 by Phil Butler

Zagat now belongs to Google

Google’s head of Local, Maps and Location Services, Marissa Mayer, just announced the acquisition of Zagat, publisher of worldwide restaurant guides, on the Google blog. Zagat is the entity that produces some of the world’s best printable restaurant guides, and accordingly, the platform will now help refine Google tools like Maps, Places, and Hotspot too, Google’s growing recommendation engine.

Tags: Dealmap, G+, Giza Ventures, Google acquisitions, Google blog, Google Hotspot, Google Maps, Google Places, Google Travel, ITA, Marissa Mayer, Motorola, Stay, Stay.com, travel sites, Yahoo! Local, Zagat

Britain’s PM Uses Online Booking: Well Maybe

2011-08-04 by Phil Butler

Breakfast with the Prime Minister

It should come as no real surprise that Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, gets his vacation deals via the Internet too. According to the news from Travelmatch and the Daily Mail, Cameron’s booked a luxurious villa in Italy via the online travel portal. He and his family will be headed out on vacation via budget airline, the whole shebang, just like you or I. Well, almost – read on.

Tags: booking sites, Brent Hoberman, Chianti, David Cameron, deals, Eton College, European travel, Italy tourism, Italy travel, LastMinute, PR, Press, press secretary, Travel booking, travel sites, Tuscany travel, vacation deals

Travel Republic Now Open In Spain

2011-05-26 by Phil Butler

Travel Republic

Travel Republic, one of the top online travel sites in the UK and around the world, has announced their expansion into the Spain market. Our friends at Travel Daily News reported on this last week, outlining Travel Republic’s strong ties with Spanish hotels, and the obvious benefits of engaging that space.

Tags: Alexa, Jet2, Kayak, LastMinute, online travel, Opodo, PRWen, Spain travel, traffic, Travel Daily News, Travel Republic, travel sites, UK travel

Kukunu Is Travel, Who Knew?

2010-10-20 by Ryan Cox

Kukunu is the easiest way to plan your next trip.

Ryan Cox reviews Kukunu, a travel startup of 2010 – promising, yet still far behind what it could become.

Tags: kukunu, travel reviews, travel sites, travel startup

Is Expedia More Than Just a Jingle

2010-10-18 by Ryan Cox

expedia.com screenshot

Is expedia.com a trustworthy site? Ryan Cox, Argophilia’s travel tech expert, believes it is. What do you think? Share your experience!

Tags: Expedia, expedia.com, travel sites, travel website review




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