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"Irrational pricing is normally not sustainable over the long-term"

RM and Pricing in Travel USA 2007 Special

"A la carte" option allows the customer to opt-in or opt-out of features that they feel they don't need or that they would appreciate in customising their purchase.

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"Online is no longer always the least expensive alternative"

Business travel itineraries booked on public Internet sites such as Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, and the airlines' direct sites have been found to average $75 more per itinerary than those booked by a corporate travel agency, according to a study conducted by Topaz International.

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American Airlines Vacations revamps travel agency and consumer vacation websites

EzRez Software, Inc., a provider of online travel packaging and merchandising solutions, has signed an  agreement with American Airlines Vacations for the carrier's revamped travel agency and consumer vacation websites.

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Travelzoo UK attracts 200 new advertisers in 2007

Internet media company Travelzoo has shared that 200 new advertisers have promoted offers in its popular Top 20 newsletter and on the new Travelzoo.co.uk website since January this year.

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FastBooking attracts €35m investment

FastBooking, a service company dedicated to helping hotels develop their Internet sales, has attracted €35m investment from 3i and Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners.

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TRAVELfusion touches 130 LCC milestone

TRAVELfusion, which operates the world's largest LCC XML API distribution solution, has added Oasis Hong Kong Airlines.

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"Online travel market has come a full circle in India": QuadLabs' Gaurav Chiripal

By Ritesh Gupta

QuadLabs, a travel technology specialist, recently launched the latest version of its flagship product Xchange ERP Solution.

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Integrating CRM efforts within higher level of marketing mix modeling

CRM Technology for Travel USA 2007 Special

Consumers are always looking for good deals, and in travel, those deal often only exist for short periods of time. So it is critical to let consumer know about them as soon as possible.

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Porter Airlines gets ready for branded fares

In a Canadian travel market first, Sabre Travel Network and Porter Airlines are set to launch merchandising capabilities allowing the airline to more broadly and powerfully promote their fare brands to Sabre-Connected travel agents.

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Allowing travel companies to automatically calculate the carbon footprint for an itinerary

Dolphin Dynamics has introduced Carbon Emissions Calculator in the Dolphin TravelScanner booking engine allows travel companies to automatically calculate the carbon footprint for an itinerary.

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British Airways completes $1.70 billion debt financing

British Airways has concluded arrangements for a long term multiple option facility for US$ 1,700,000,000.

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lastminute.com opts for Pixsy for multimedia travel search

Online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com has signed an agreement with Pixsy Corporation to utilise its media search technology to operate a travel focused video and image search engine at lastminute.pixsy.com.

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WikiTouri search engine to deliver multilingual travel assistance services

Continan Communications, Inc. has officially launched its WikiTouri search engine service for connected travelers.

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Qunar.com ties up with Qihoo.com, focuses on personalised travel information

China's travel search engine Qunar.com and Qihoo.com, a community search platform with over 20 million unique visitors, have launched a service titled 360 Degrees Travel.

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Yapta adds comparison shopping tool to its trip-tagging solution

Online travel shopping service Yapta, Inc. has launched a new web tool to help travelers easily compare their flight options and airfares.

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WAYN.com to provide city destination content

Travel and lifestyle social networking site WAYN.com has partnered with WCITIES, a provider of travel and destination content online and on the mobile.

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PriceBreakers travel deals service enhanced, gets a "live" deals feed on priceline.com

Priceline.com has recently introduced a series of enhancements to its PriceBreakers service that will bring even more last-minute travel bargains to a growing base of deal-seeking customers.

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Online travel commerce continues to experience double-digit gains in the US

Retail e-commerce increased 23 percent to $28.4 billion, while the travel-related e-commerce spending  grew 11 percent to touch US$20.1 billion-mark as comScore, Inc. released  the US e-commerce spending figures for the third quarter of 2007.

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Travelocity simplifies the road trip planning process

Travelocity has announced the beta launch of the RoadTrip Wizard, a new tool that streamlines and simplifies the road trip planning process.

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Avis Budget Group invests US$60m in Carey International

Avis Budget Group, Inc. has recently acquired a significant interest in Carey International Inc., a provider of chauffeured ground transportation services worldwide.

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Maximising on-board retail revenues and profits

GuestLogix Inc., a provider of on-board retail solutions to the airline industry, and Mantix Solutions, a retail consultancy to the travel industry, have signed an agreement to jointly develop new business aimed at expanding in-flight retail opportunities using the GuestLogix Mobile Virtual Store platform.

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Hilton and Hertz control their multi-channel distribution

Partnerships are essential for survival in the fierce online travel market.  In this current multi-channel distribution landscape travel companies must be able to control inventory residing with multiple partners.

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"Hospitality is not an online innovative industry"

CRM Technology for Travel USA 2007 Special

It is being widely acknowledged that loyalty programmes will start getting more personalised.

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Norvestor acquires two OTAs in the Nordic region

Private equity fund Norvestor IV, L.P. recently agreed to acquire two online travel agents in the Nordic countries, Seat24 Travel AB and SRG Online AB through the newly created holding company European Travel Interactive AB (ETI).

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IHG works on refreshed and contemporary brand image for Holiday Inn

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced a worldwide relaunch of the Holiday Inn brand family, comprising Holiday Inn, Express by Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express (`Holiday Inn').

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easyJet to acquire GB Airways Ltd for a cash consideration of £103.5 million

easyJet PLC has agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of GB Airways Ltd excluding its slots at Heathrow Airport, from the Bland Group Limited, for a cash consideration of £103.5 million.

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Travel Ad Network to handle US inventory for WAYN.com

Travel Ad Network (TAN) has become the exclusive ad rep for US-accessed inventory on UK-based travel and lifestyle social networking community website WAYN.com.

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"Argument around online as a transaction environment for travel is no longer an issue"

TDS India Special 2007

The competition among the existing online travel agencies in India has resulted in several critical issues related to potential cash flows, true online business models and staff to transaction ratio among the other ones.

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Airlines need to invest in unifying customer information across their systems: Oracle's Patrick Grubbs

By Ritesh Gupta

Even as commercial databases are allowing airlines in developed markets to uniquely identify above 90 percent of all of the customers who get on their aircrafts, there is need for airlines to invest in unifying customer information.

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Demand for business travel services tipped to again outweigh supply in 2008

The American Express annual Global Business Travel Forecast has indicated that demand for business travel services will again outweigh supply in 2008.

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Webjet shares strategy for sale of global hotels

Webjet has announced its market footprint extension strategy into the sale of global hotels.

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UGC sites need to facilitate a purchase decision making process

Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe 2007 Special

It is being acknowledged that the biggest effect Travel 2.0 will have is going to be in automating the word of mouth process for planning travel, giving travelers better ideas and direction for planning trips, which will yield richer and more satisfying travel experiences.

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Travelocity Business to provide travel management services in Asia Pacific

Travelocity Business is to start providing travel management services in select Asia-Pacific countries for its client base.

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hotels.com introduces interactive rate calendar

hotels.com has come up with a new room rate calendar feature that helps travelers quickly identify the best room rates available at the property of their choice.

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Expedia launches its site in New Zealand

Online travel company Expedia, Inc. has launched its New Zealand website, www.expedia.co.nz.

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Virgin Blue re-launches its website

Virgin Blue has unveiled its fresh, new website virginblue.com.au , with focus on making the navigation easier for key information or to book flights.

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Finding ways to make new online tools or functionality a success

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

Companies do not have visibility into where and what travel products consumers are researching and booking at competitor sites.

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Role of e-commerce in enabling Indians to realise their dream of traveling

By Ritesh Gupta

"Travel is every Indian's dream. However, large gap exists between dream and reality".

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Online intermediaries gear up for challenges to drive hotel revenues in India

By Ritesh Gupta

Even as the online travel business in India is expected to be worth $1.3 billion in 2007, still the share of hotel bookings is far less than airline booking.

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American Express Business Travel boosts leadership team with new roles

American Express Business Travel has reported strong growth in EMEA with wins up 34 percent year-on-year across the region for first six months of 2007.

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Ryanair told not to repeat "Robbed by Lastminute.com?" ads: media

Ryanair has reportedly again been accused of misleading claims by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

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Simplifying online shopping experience for corporate travellers

Amadeus is ready with its latest enhancements to Amadeus e-Travel Management. The Version 11.0,  to be made available worldwide by the end of October, will provide a simpler and more flexible 'Total Trip Experience' for business travellers.

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Freeborders Inc. and Expedia have agreed to create a technology development center for Expedia in China.

Freeborders Inc. and Expedia have agreed to create a technology development center for Expedia in China.

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New search facility to compare budget accommodation and hostels rates globally

Hotel rates comparison search engine Comparior.com has launched a new feature of searching for B&Bs, hostels, country houses, self-caterings worldwide, instead of just hotels.

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TUI Travel UK announces new management team

TUI Travel UK has finalised its new distribution structure, reflecting the company's plans to operate two brands on the high street and overseas.

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Using social communities as a barometer to assess perceptions about companies

Community-based websites where one can log their trips, see who’s where and make new friends as a concept continues to gain in prominence. (10/11/2007)

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"We cannot view travel as an amorphous whole especially when it comes to the online movement"

By EyeforTravel Correspondent in Mumbai

Even as the battle among online travel intermediaries is shaping up into a fierce one in India, questions are being raised about viability of so many players.

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SkyEurope & Czech Airlines share insight into the rapid growth of air travel and increasing competition in Central & Eastern Europe

SkyEurope and Czech Airlines, Central & Eastern Europe’s leading carriers, will be sharing their views on the current outlook for air travel in the region at EyeforTravel’s upcoming Travel Distribution Central & Eastern Europe conference.

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"I find it remarkable that GDS continue to extract the fees they do"

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

GDS renegotiations have been the centre of attraction for a while. But have airlines missed out an opportunity?

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"I don't think suppliers have completely embraced UCG yet": Home&Abroad.com's Mark Schroeder

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

  RSS, Video content, mapping, podcasts, blogs… new technology delivery of content is empowering and critical, but how it can be tied back to the business objectives that one wants to achieve?

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Travel industry making most effective use of affiliate marketing: study

The travel industry is making the most successful use of affiliate marketing, according to research conducted by E-consultancy.

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QuadLabs introduces Xchange v10

QuadLabs, a travel technology specialist, has recently launched the latest version of its flagship product Xchange ERP Solution.

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Group RCI forms strategic alliance with LeisureLink

Group RCI has formed a strategic alliance with LeisureLink, a provider of online distribution for vacation rental properties.

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Are Indians comfortable with interaction and posting personal information on the web?

By Ritesh Gupta

Hoteliers across the globe are working on sites featuring new tools and downloads, marking a new era in  the hospitality industry. Such websites provide members with unprecedented personalised access and a rich, customised online experience.

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Indian aviation sector may see more new players, and even more M&As

By Ritesh Gupta

After battling with serious concerns related to yield levels going down to unsustainable point, over-capacity and mounting losses, the Indian aviation industry finally witnessed consolidation earlier this year.

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"The aviation sector is steadily heading towards the tipping point in its favour"

India Special: Interview with  Captain GR Gopinath, Executive Chairman, Air Deccan 

"The potential of the  travel and tourism industry in India is largely untapped. The need of the hour is, to develop multiple distribution and access channels to create a wide scale consumer base. The Internet plays critical role in empowering travel agents with increased market and consumer reach."

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Assessing Yatra's journey in the first year

Travel Distribution India Special

The online travel business in India is expected to be worth $1.3 billion in the year 2007.

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TravelSpice.in to be a fully operational travel portal by Jan 2008

Post its recent soft launch, TravelSpice.in is gearing up for a full-scale January launch, equipped with a dynamic search and booking engine.

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Hotelbeds employs XML technology for Rate Tiger

Hotelbeds and Rate Tiger have enhanced their distribution partnership by connecting both platforms via XML technology.

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Half of leisure travelers now purchase all or most of their personal travel online: JupiterResearch

The Internet has matured as a travel distribution channel with 70 percent of online leisure travelers booking at least some of their personal travel online and 52 percent purchasing all or most of their personal travel online, according to JupiterResearch.

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Letting users decide whether to view the ad or not

Adotube.com ,an online video-monetising platform, has introduced Instream Flash Media Player, described as a revolutionary system of in-stream flash media advertising developed to display brand-name ads in online videos.

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Jet Airways implements a utomated online risk management solution

Jet Airways has implemented an automated online risk (fraud) management solution, the first such initiative from any airline in India, according to the company.

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Former Yahoo! executive to lead SideStep's global search efforts

Travel search company SideStep has chosen Matthew Heist as Senior Vice President of global search. He will be responsible for driving SideStep's core search and international search businesses.

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"GDSs will remain viable …yet will be pressured to become more competitive"

By EFT Correspondent, recently in Las Vegas

Hotels can develop their distribution 100 percent direct but commercially there will always be a percentage of customers that the indirect channels will deliver that they would not have otherwise been able to reach directly.

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"We have broken even in the first year of inception": VIA's Vinay Gupta

Travel Distribution India Special

During EyeforTravel's first conference in New Delhi in 2006, one of the most thought-provoking discussions was related to whether some of the online travel companies will go bust / bought over by the end of 2007 or not.

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Ubiquick releases new price monitoring engine

Ubiquick SAS, a real-time web mining software company, has come up with the new version of its travel price intelligence software.

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How are Indian travel companies going about site performance and site scalability?

Travel Distribution India Special

In the context of growing online travel market in India, it is critical for travel companies to focus on issues such as delivering significantly faster page and application download times while increasing the quality of the customers’ web experience.

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Ploy behind Spirit Airlines promoting “outrageous” fares

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

Earlier this year, Spirit Airlines lowered many fares up to 40 percent as part of a new approach that empowers customers with the ability to customise their travel experience.

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Hosteworld.com experiences record breaking summer

Americans continue to opt for the convenience and affordability of hostels more than any other country in the world, according to online budget travel provider Hostelworld.com.

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Where to “Channel” your business

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

It is always intriguing to assess how to go about choosing a particular distribution channel and optimise channel profitability.

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Using social communities as a barometer to assess perceptions about companies

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

Community-based websites where one can log their trips, see who’s where and make new friends as a concept continues to gain in prominence.

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American Airlines signs exclusive opaque participation agreement with Priceline.com

American Airlines, Inc. and priceline.com have signed an agreement where American will make priceline.com its exclusive distribution partner for opaque airline tickets.

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For how long consumers are patient with travel sites functionality

A study involving Akamai Technologies, Inc. has shared key factors that are driving consumers’ selection of online travel sites.

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Internationally award winning website developer TravelCLICK to participate in the Travel Distribution Central & Eastern Europe conference

TravelCLICK, winner of nine international web awards for outstanding achievement in website development will be participating in EyeforTravel’s upcoming Travel Distribution Central & Eastern Europe conference in Prague, 5-6 November.

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Google comment on the poor web experience provided by travel

The value of direct bookings is quickly being released across the industry – a recent survey showed that 86% of hoteliers believed that in the next three years customers would book using their websites in preference to online agents.  And 57% see increased control over rates and inventory going to the hotel industry, not intermediaries.

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Galileo to distribute photos and rich media to travel agents

Galileo has recently teamed up with VFM Interactive Inc to provide Galileo-connected agents with access through their desktop to photos, videos and virtual tours for thousands of hotels and resorts worldwide.

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New video lead generation model for advertisers

Adotube, a New York-based company which offers an online video-monetising platform, says it is poised to revolutionise the advertising industry with their new Adotube In-Stream Video Player.

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“If you are a partner then behave like one”: Continental’s John Slater

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

Is it a partnership or a battle between the two? Whichever you look at it, one thing is for sure - Suppliers vs OTA relationship needs a serious scrutiny.

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“OTAs and suppliers don’t compete for the same online booker”: Travelocity’s Noreen Henry

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

Why should a supplier work with an OTA?

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Where does user-generated content fit into suppliers’ online marketing strategy?

By EFT Correspondent in Las Vegas

In August this year, Starwood Hotels & Resorts had introduced the redesigned version of its website for members of Starwood Preferred Guest hotel loyalty programme, SPG.com.

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Evolving behaviour of consumers popularises travel meta search engines

EFT TDS North America Special

Travel meta search engines have raised funds even to the tune of US$15 million this year in order to aggressively scale key areas of the business, while growing vertical search and building out media and user-generated content offerings.

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Role of technology in making personalisation truly effective and useful

EFT TDS North America 2007 Special

Suppliers are launching dedicated websites for loyal members. The focus increasingly is on personalisation.

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Sabre Holdings data shows almost 370,000 domestic fares change daily on average

Travelocity has launched FareWatcher Plus, a free, personalised service that automatically tracks the best round-trip airfares to selected destinations and sends e-mail alerts to subscribers when prices change.

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AdSense goes straight to video -- units, that is

Google Inc has decided to expand the market for ad-supported online video beyond its own YouTube site by letting the many website publishers it already counts as clients run such videos on their own sites.

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Tiger Airways slashes airfares

Singapore-based Tiger Airways has marked the opening of Melbourne Airport’s new fourth terminal with another round of discount airfares.

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easyJet achieves significant improvement in margins

easyJet expects pre-tax profit growth to be towards the top end of its earlier guidance of 40-50 percent.

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United to unlock `value of biz units’

United Airlines intends to spend nearly US$4 billion on improvements in the next five years and reiterated interest in a merger.

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Online ad revenues nears record $10b in first six months

US Internet advertising revenues grew more than 26 percent to about $10 billion in the first six months of the year, according to a study.

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Unisys AirCore solution goes live

Hahn Air Systems GmbH has successfully implemented the initial phase of Unisys Corporation’s eTops next-generation airline booking system based on the Unisys Airline Core Systems Solutions (AirCore).

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Assessing OTA vs supplier direct battle in India

Travel Distribution India Special

As the online travel intermediaries gain in prominence in India, the industry is keen to assess where does OTAs share vis-à-vis other distribution channels such as offline intermediaries and supplier direct stand as of today.

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Haven Holidays ties up with JDA, looks to maximise its Holidays Division turnover

JDA Software Group, Inc. has signed an agreement with Haven Holidays, part of the Bourne Leisure Group, to implement the JDA Tour Revenue Optimizer solution to deliver accurate demand forecasts and an automated revenue management and pricing solution.

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JDA Software and Rainmaker Group expand relationship in hospitality market

JDA Software Group, Inc., a provider of hospitality enterprise pricing and revenue management solutions, has expanded its partnership with The Rainmaker Group.

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A carrier in India scales down fleet expansion

India’s GoAir has decided to scale down its expansion plan by reducing the number of planes it is going to operate in the next four years.

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Monetising aggregated intelligence related to customer preferences and requirements

Travel Distribution India Special

The online travel environment, especially in mature markets, is rapidly evolving with social networking inherently encouraging the sharing of information among the user community. In turn, the expectations and the attitude of the consumer, too, are changing accordingly.

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Continental eyes major expansion in Asia in the years to come

Continental Airlines Inc is planning to operate to more destinations in India and China. The development was shared by the airline as it announced a non-stop Mumbai-New York service.

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100 million OrbitzTLC Alerts sent to customers

Orbitz has reached a milestone with more than 100 million OrbitzTLC alerts sent to customers since the company started keeping records in 2003.

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Dolphin FlightScanner features enhanced, to support multiple fare options

Dolphin Dynamics has enhanced its FlightScanner booking engine to display multiple fares for LCCs offering a variety of fare options, such as restricted, promotional and flexible fares.

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Sabre extends its IT services contract with EDS

EDS and Sabre Holdings have announced the renegotiation and extension of an IT services contract through 2014, with new revenue to EDS valued at $630 million.

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Travelocity improves partner marketing programme

Travelocity is using Salesforce Software-as-a-Service CRM to manage its partner marketing programme and relationships with hotel chains, rental car companies, cruise lines and airlines.

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bmi launches new and improved website

bmi has partnered Foviance to re-launch the flybmi website, ensuring it meets the highest standards in usability.

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CarTrawler to become VisitBritain's sole car rental distribution partner

CarTrawler has signed a three-year partnership to become the sole car rental distribution partner for national tourism agency, VisitBritain.

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Virgin fuels fare war between US airlines: media

The launch of low-cost airline Virgin America Inc has triggered a fare war that has nearly halved ticket prices on some routes and could erode earnings at rival airlines, reports Reuters.

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AirAsia X set to fly in November

AirAsia X, the soon-to-be-launch long-haul low cost airline, will launch operations by flying to Australia's Gold Coast in November.

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GDS level-playing field will result in greater efficiency and service to travellers to and from China

China Special: By EFT Correspondent

Airlines, including Chinese carriers, are joining global alliances requiring broad information integration.   

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New "pattern proximity" technology to take away random text ads

A German company has introduced a new form of search technology it calls "pattern proximity" that reads information on web pages and then contextually matches that to appropriate content and advertisements.

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A case of content sponsorship ads outperforming banner campaigns

Media Contacts, the global interactive media network of Havas Media, increased the performance of Internet advertising campaign initiatives by successfully delivering digital content to site visitors, a move resulting from integrating marketer content directly into Answers.com's result pages.

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Which US airline website has the best ticket-selling features?

AMR Corp. (AMR), parent of American Airlines, has the best ticket-selling features of any airline website, according to a Forrester Research study that ranked websites of the 10 largest US airlines.

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BBC Worldwide acquires 75 percent stake in Lonely Planet

BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster's commercial arm, has made its first major acquisition after buying a majority stake in the Australian travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.

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Jetstar Asia guarantees the lowest fares among all low-cost carriers

In the wake of increasing competition in the Asia Pacific region, Jetstar Asia is assuring its customers of the lowest fares among all low-cost carriers and even promising "Double the difference" voucher issued to any customer who finds a web fare lower to that of Jetstar Asia's.

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Wotif joins fray to buy-out Travel.com.au

Online accommodation portal Wotif.com has reportedly moved to derail Webjet's bid to buy-out Travel.com.au with a $50 million counter-offer.

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Deccan Aviation ends year with net loss of US$102 million

Deccan Aviation, which operates low-cost airline Air Deccan, has posted US$42 million net loss for the fourth quarter ended June 30.

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Orbitz renews car rental partnership with Hertz

Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. has renewed distribution partnership with The Hertz Corporation.

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Expedia.com and Citi offer new ways to earn points

Expedia.com and Citi have expanded their partnership with the launch of the new Citi PremierPass / Expedia.com Card.

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Tourico Holidays goes for global expansion and new customer service operations

Wholesale travel provider Tourico Holidays, Inc. has recently completed its global expansion project, opening five new offices in four countries worldwide, including Brazil, England, China, and Japan.

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