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If TravelPost traffic numbers unimpressive, what did Expedia alums really get?
Why did Greg Slyngstad, Simon Breakwell, Rich Barton and the rest of the ex-Expedia gang at NewTravelCo decide to acquire hotel-review site TravelPost from Kayak and what did the startup actually get?...
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Chart – traffic to airline websites soared on Ash Thursday
No surprise here at all, but some indication of the travel chaos that set in yesterday and hundreds of thousands of passengers found themselves stranded across Europe. This graph from traffic...
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Asia-Pacific online travel by numbers
Some fascinating data and detail into the growth of online travel in the Asia-Pacific region from Joe Nguyen, vice president in South East Asia at Comscore. At the top of the story behind the region’s...
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Four vital methods to improve travel website performance
NB: This is a guest article by Alexei Tumarkin, chief technology officer of CDNetworks. The pressure and competition are enormous for travel and tourism businesses to convert Internet shoppers to...
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TripAdvisor: First travel site to reach 50M visitors, but now what?
On the cusp of becoming a public company on its own, TripAdvisor now claims to the “first standalone travel brand” to hit the 50 million unique monthly visitor mark. Using global data from comScore,...
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Measuring aggravation: The Congestion Index identifies the world’s worst roads
Technology has long been heralded as the salve to the festering wounds of the world’s worst roads: Nightmarish commutes, hours wasted idling, soul-draining hours stuck behind slow moving masses of...
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