TripAdvisor has acquired VirtualTourist.com, a pioneer in user-generated travel content since 1999, and OneTime.com, a travel booking comparison site.
Including VirtualTourist and OneTime, the TripAdvisor Media Network now attracts nearly 32 million unique monthly visitors.
“VirtualTourist pioneered the concept of an online travel community, and with the help of over a million enthusiastic members, has created a [...]

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Lastminute.com is to upgrade its dynamic packaging technology so any product on the online travel agency’s platform can be sold as a single product, writes Travolution.
The new system will allow users to combine flights, hotels and package holidays with other destination services such as restaurants, activities, attractions and theatre tickets. Until now users have not [...]

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Web 2.0 was all about creativity, information sharing and consumers collaborating around content. Web 3.0 is all about personalization of the online experience and getting beyond the PC. EyeForTravel explains an impact of Web 3.0 technology on travel and tourism industry and what role in the industry will be playing “Travel 3.0 intelligent agents”.
“Travel 3.0 [...]

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Profit continues to increase in most European hotel markets in spite of falling average occupancy, according to the latest HotStats survey of ten European cities by TRI Hospitality Consulting.
France and Budapest were the only cities where hotels were able to increase in demand in the four months to April 2008 of the 10 European cities.
In [...]

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We have come a long way in the world of Internet Marketing. From the age of information (think glorified electronic brochure) on the web to the world of snappy online transactions…we’ve now moved into the age of an experiential and social Internet, all great leaps in a relatively short space of time.
Hotel eMarketers can lay [...]

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