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Why Flipboard is a game-changer for travel
Many marketing managers and business developments managers have invested money and reputation by advocating social networks as means of marketing. But the lack of interaction to transaction has been...
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Two different ways to show off a destination on the web
There is always pressure on the reams of travel content sites on the web to find new ways of keeping visitors interested, but thankfully new methods come along almost constantly. Take this intriguing...
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Three alternatives to creating yet another online travel inspiration startup
It is natural for entrepreneurs new to the travel industry to focus on solving consumer problems or pain points. Solving problems is what entrepreneurs are guided to do and consumer-facing issues are...
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Lonely Planet plugs tech jobs via video, but two key staffers go
Pretty commonplace for companies these days to produce a video clip to outline how wonderful it can be to take a job within the organisation. So, interesting that on Monday this week guidebook giant...
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Travesse enters busy flash sale sector but with a destination content twist
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based Travesse, a new flash sale hotel accommodation site. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? Amir Azulay, entrepreneur and...
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GuidePal brings city guides and augmented reality to mobiles
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Sweden-based GuidePal, a mobile app-based travel guide platform for cities around world. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? GuidePal...
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My Destination wins £1M investment round
Trip planner and content platform My Destination has secured a £1 million funding round, in a move it says values the company at £10 million. An official confirms the latest round brings the total...
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Foursquare to integrate buttons for publisher destination content
Foursquare is poised to announce a deal with several online publishers today in which consumers would get alerted about previously viewed travel content when they are nearby the particular destination....
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Travel bloggers – time to stop navel gazing and get on with the job. Please
The early to mid-1990s saw an explosion of exciting, creative and independent (indie, not signed to major record labels) bands in the UK. The music industry and fans in the UK, like many others around...
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Two tourism industry problems that travel bloggers can solve
The profession of travel blogging is apparently on the rise (defined as those who find employment through writing travel blogs). There is always plenty of discussion (and a plea to stop) about...
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Lookze brings history of buildings and destination content to mobiles
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Lookze, a mobile application to give travelers information about the buildings and their surroundings as they walk around cities. Who and what are...
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GuidePal raises $800,000, dismisses competitors as not waking up and smelling...
Mobile destination guide provider GuidePal has raised $800,000 in a bid to speed up expansion of its business across Latin America, China and the US. The Sweden-based company (TLabs Showcase –...
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Google unveils Project Glass – putting infomation and communication right in...
Here we go again – a peek at how destination content, social media and communications might play out in the years to come, this time courtesy of Google. Unveiled by the supposedly mysterious GoogleX...
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Joobili – sad tale of a travel startup with lots of promise that ended up in...
Remember Joobili, the travel inspiration startup from Europe which had a nifty user interface and the financial backing of high profile tech investor Esther Dyson? Despite a strong official start in...
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Joobili almost back from the deadpool, finds buyer for assets with sale to...
Much shedding of collective tears from other startups a few months ago when travel inspiration site Joobili announced it was closing its doors after almost four years in business. The way in which the...
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Three questions travel bloggers must address right now
NB: This is a guest article by Matthew Barker, managing partner at HitRiddle. The annual TBEX networking shindig is over and several hundred hopeful travel blogtrepreneurs (*) are heading back down...
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How to drive more business to hotels with TripAdvisor destination forums
NB: This is a guest article by Mark Hayward, a hotel and tourism marketing specialist and freelance writer. Are you seeking more guests for your hotel or customers for your tourism-related business?...
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Rough guide to building a travel destination app for mobile
NB: This is a guest article by Ros Bulych, managing partner of Lemberg Mobile. Brochures, guides, maps and tons of other printed material could be done away with for good thanks to the new black in the...
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TravelAvenue wants to be the Pinterest for travel, with a few twists
Pinterest launched quietly into the world of social networking in 2010, but then made one hell of a thud a year or so later – with obvious ramifications for travel. TravelAvenue has seen this movement...
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