Webinar: How iBeacons and Location will Change the Travel Industry – Propelics
What are beacons and will they be the key to unlocking contextual intelligence in the travel & hospitality sector? Mobile is transforming …
Why Disney’s Magic Bands Are the Future of Mobile, Big Data and Personalization – Skift
Pity the parent trying to do Disney World on the cheap these days. Last summer, Disney introduced MagicBands into the theme park …
Google Licenses Room 77 Software in Mobile Travel-Booking Push – Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) wants you to reserve a hotel room from your smartphone, and it’s spending money on the technology to make …
The ‘Beacon-Enabled’ Hotel Of The Digital Age | By Tim Groot
The concept of the smart hotel is to automate everything you want to forget about and let you have more time to …
Priceline CMO eyes bigger role in on-property purchases via mobile – Q&A – Mobile Commerce Daily
Priceline wants a bigger role throughout the travel experience, such as enabling hotel check-ins or on-site purchases, and views mobile as essential to realizing these goals. One …
VeryLastRoom raises $2.1M in bid to capture $28BN last-minute market
Last minute mobile-based hotel booking service VeryLastRoom has raised $2.1 million funding led by french venture capitalist APlusFinance, and Extend & Sigma …
iBeacons and airports: Results from a real-world test
iBeacons have been a much buzzed about new technology, using low-energy Bluetooth to deliver much more specific proximity awareness than GPS. Travel …
7 need-to-know social moves and mobile trends that you may have missed | Travel Industry News & Conferences – EyeforTravel
Social media has matured, the success of visual marketing is old news and mobile is the business, so where to now? In …
TripAdvisor Pushes for In-App Hotel Bookings But Faces Resistance – Skift
It’s going to get done eventually, but TripAdvisor is admittedly facing some resistance to achieving its self-described “key product focus in 2014″ …
Todays kids, tomorrow’s travellers and what they are doing online
For some insight on how travel companies might shape products and services for up and coming generations, it’s worth looking at numbers …
TripAdvisor Plans Mobile Travel Guide Features
Now 14 years old and hosting 150 million reviews and opinions, (twice as many as two years ago) TripAdvisor has established itself as a …
UK Travelers Pick Up Smartphones for Research – eMarketer
The mobile phone is proving to be indispensable in the UK when organizing a holiday. Of the 1,550 UK smartphone owners surveyed …
How native travel app and mobile site usage shakes out
Most holiday related research takes place in mobile websites (94%) versus native applications, claims a new study. Market research company GFK looked …
What’s app? Your window of opportunity, says Facebook travel head – Travolution.co.uk
Attracting eyeballs and winning customers online will increasingly be fought on the mobile battleground where the best app wins, according to Facebook’s …
Travel Startup Founder Series: Kerry Gallivan Founder Chimani
In this interview you’ll learn; How Chimani is building a mobile app business for the USA’s National Parks. Chimani helps visitors plan, …
What Happened To Blink and SideTour 6 Months After Groupon Bought Them – Skift
Six months after Groupon separately acquired Blink, the Madrid-based same-day hotel booking app that competes with HotelTonight, and New York-based tours and …
Mobile watch: Google tinkers with Hotel Finder interface
Google is tinkering with the way that hotels are laid out on mobile, making the mobile experience much more streamlined for Hotel …
Laser focus: could meta be missing the mobile boat? | Travel Industry News & Conferences – EyeforTravel
Yes, says Tom Bacon, and now is no time to enhancing a soon to be obsolete product In my view, Kayak and …
momondo talks mobile and why travel search is not about a race to the bottom | Travel Industry News & Conferences – EyeforTravel
As meta-search becomes a force to be reckoned with, all players are working out how to defend their corner Distribution has always …
Six digital insights for the hospitality industry
The world is rapidly shifting to mobile internet and hotels need to anticipate on this. Yet according to Google, the hotel industry …