Booking.com offers smaller hotels direct online tool to drive bookings (eyefortravel.com)
Online hotel portal Booking.com has launched a new avenue for smaller hotels and guesthouses, integrating a direct booking tool into their own websites.
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lastminute.com appoints Drew Robinson as Head of Country Distribution (eyefortravel.com)
Online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com has appointed former Hotel Reservation Services Partnership Manager Drew Robinson as Head of Country Distribution (UK).
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Bond is back, and De Niro and Pacino are together in fall movies (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Big stars take to the big screen in an array of fall movies.
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Inca Trail Trek Tour Hikig Peru (eyefortravel.com)
All Trek Tour Operator is a Cusco based officially licensed Inca Trail Operator (Inca Trail Administration) and Authorized Travel Agency (Peruvian Ministry of Tourism and Industry).
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Sabre introduces new merchandising feature (eyefortravel.com)
Sabre has introduced a merchandising first through its Air Merchandising Suite. The new initiative will allow airlines to differentiate and sell premium airline seats at the time of the original booking, in all distribution channels: online, offline, direct, and travel agency.
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Ctrip.com ties up with Google (eyefortravel.com)
Online travel company Ctrip.com has tied up with Google to develop e-map and the ranking service Google Rebang. As per the information available, the Chinese website will integrate its own data to launch the travel top lists jointly with the Google Rebang, offering travel references for customers.
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lastminute.com introduces mobile restaurant booking service (eyefortravel.com)
lastminute.com's Labs team has launched the beta version of its first mobile application FoneFood, a European-wide multi-lingual restaurant table reservation service.
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MY TURN: Travels with mother-in-law made trips even more special (Daily Breeze)
My mother-in-law, Ellen, may have been dubious about escaping her life as a drudge, but in fact after her husband died in 1967 she went on 20 or more trips with Bonny and me, and often our son, Andy. She was an enthusiastic traveler.
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"We will see mergers and acquisitions happening early in 2009" (eyefortravel.com)
The continuing fillip to consumer power, reduction in technology costs and easing of entry barriers are some of the global trends paving way for new business models including ones in the online travel distribution.
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OpenTravel announces new projects teams (eyefortravel.com)
The OpenTravel Alliance has formed nine project teams for the second half of 2008, dedicated to solving travel distribution business problems with XML schema.
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