02 Aug 2018

Travelport’s B2B payments business eNett has had another high-double-digit growth quarter and is well on track to deliver $500m in revenues in 2021. CEO Gordon Wilson told tnooz that “all the market dynamics are right for this business” and “even the major OTAs are now offering prepayment options rather…

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02 Aug 2018

This is a viewpoint from Payam Safa, founder and CEO of Bellhop.  The travel industry was clearly in my DNA – I had launched a hotel chain in Indonesia and built another startup based around global travel, when the idea of Bellhop first came to me. Back in 2015,…

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02 Aug 2018

Mobile marketing platform CleverTap has published a set of benchmarks for travel apps to give marketers an idea of how well – or not – their own app performs in context. Industry Benchmarks for Travel Apps is based on analysis of anonymous users performing over 55 billion events on one…

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02 Aug 2018

This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in August 2018. 2 August 2018 GetYourGuide strengthens engineering  team GetYourGuide has announced three new appointments to its tech line-up, with Udi Nir named as its chief technology officer. He has 25 years of…

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01 Aug 2018

When Sean Menke took over as CEO of Sabre in late 2016, the first things he talked about were return on investment, margins, speed to market and the potential of getting its GDS and PSS to work more closely together. Eighteen months – or six financial quarters – later…

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01 Aug 2018

A consumer protections case against Australian serviced apartments operator and developer Meriton  has concluded with the Federal Court fining the company AU$3 million (US$2.2 million) for deceptive practices. The case centres around masking customer emails in an attempt to game the TripAdvisor Review Express system. Review Express is intended…

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01 Aug 2018

Online travel agents (OTAs) are the most popular option for booking flights and accommodation within the youth and student market. A survey of more than 57,000 travellers aged under 30 by WYSE Travel Confederation found this age group booked around 40% of its flights and 47% of accommodation through…

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01 Aug 2018

This is an article from TravelDaily China.It appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative.  As one of the world’s major online travel agencies, Ctrip is eyeing not only Chinese citizens’ booming domestic and outbound travel but also the opportunity to be a game-changer in the global travel landscape….

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31 Jul 2018

Japan Airlines Group’s (JAL) travel and tourism packages division, JALPAK, has launched a new web-based dynamic reservation system for customers in Australia, ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The airline group hopes that the new packages will appeal to the growing number of Australians who choose Japan as…

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31 Jul 2018

Discovery platform Taboola has released a global guide to native advertising trends in travel, which covers keywords, imagery, click-through rates, device patterns and more. The findings are based around 8 billion impressions and almost 8 million clicks, and include worldwide bigger picture details and country-specific insights. Seeing as Taboola…

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