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Is Hipmunk the best travel booking website on the planet?

Hipmunk is innovative, for sure, but is it more than a few features and does it have enough staying power to get its brand known beyond Silicon Valley?

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Thomas Cook cuts Olympic ticket and hotel packages by 50%

Despite the promises that Olympic business is brisk, it's becoming more likely that the committee's carefully orchestrated release of rooms and events tickets has not worked as planned.

Skift | 12 years ago

Cruises

Bahrain tries to lure back cruise ships by cutting port fees

Bahrain knows that the cruiselines first scared off by unrest and then by sky-high insurance premiums won't return until costs decline and think that slashing port fees are just the ticket.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Expedia ranks the world’s 650 best hotels

Expedia doesn't have the same amount of user activity as one-time sister company TripAdvisor, but it can say that its users have stayed in the properties that they rate.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

London Olympics is a big huge tourist bust. Or not.

We may not know what the reality is until much after the games have ended, as collecting data for huge events like Olympics always takes a long time, sometimes even years. But trust London to mess up a good thing going.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

KwikChex rates review sites through its own lens

KwikCheck, which represents hotels, hates unverified hotel reviews so TripAdvisor is near the bottom of the list. TripAdvisor-owned Flipkey, which publishes only verified reviews about vacation rentals, is a favorite. In publishing its list, where is KwikChex's transparency about filing complaints with UK regulatory authorities against at least two of the companies in its ranking?

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Troubled Air India bets against long-hauls, says Indians like stopovers

Counter-intuitive, but what isn't in India? Business travelers love non-stops, and hate Air India. Hence this spin for leisure travelers, which may have some truth to it.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Travel agents on way out despite recent industry PR to the contrary

This directly contradicts industry-boosterism from the likes of Phocuswright in U.S. that is used as a proxy by travel agent groups to place PR-driven stories about the edge agents supposedly offer confused online users. For anyone who wants to use common sense, the travails of a giant like Thomas Cook in UK would tell you otherwise.

Skift | 12 years ago

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SkiftDesign: The tricky task of finding the right logo for the UAE

That UAE monarchy is asking public to vote is a change in itself, a sign of the times in that region.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Social travel startups eat your heart out: “Facebook bragging” boosts Aussie tourism

Hence our general skepticism of specialized social travel startups.

Skift | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

How IndiGo escaped the blues: Secret of India’s Southwest

Fascinating story in the Indian aviation market, with shades of Southwest Airlines. Can Indigo replicate its success in the international routes it is now rolling out?

Skift | 12 years ago