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Mobissimo offers Facebook-only fare alerts
Travel search engine Mobissimo gave users of its Facebook app the ability to set up fare alerts. Mobissimo introduced its travel metasearch solution on Facebook in November and now has added fare alert...
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Is the new Priceline winning bids Facebook app really a winner?
Priceline believes it is onto something with its hotel winning bids emails alerts and website postings, and now has taken the marketing tool to Facebook with a Search Winning Bids app. Users install...
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Alaska Airlines launches FlyingSocial Facebook app
You’ve heard of “social travel” as in Gogobot and Wanderfly, but how about a subset, FlyingSocial? That’s the name of Alaska Airlines’ new Facebook app, and social it is. All of the sudden you go to...
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Expedia upgrades Facebook app with wish list
Expedia has updated its Trip Companion application for Facebook to include a wishlist feature as well as both professionally generated content and consumer reviews. The travel planning app, which was...
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VisitBritain asks public to invite friends and family in latest campaign
VisitBritain is providing the public with tools on Facebook and other media to help promote the destination to friends and relatives. This latest campaign ‘Share your GREAT Britain’ aims to attract...
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Best Western launches a Facebook app with reservations
If it seems as if you are chained to Facebook because you spend so much time gabbing with friends or listening to Spotify there, then there’s a hotel chain which will make your travel planning easier....
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Namibia Tourism Board syndicates customized Facebook app for tour operators
As part of its new Conservation Destination online marketing campaign, the Namibia Tourism Board is taking the unusual step of of syndicating a co-branded and customizable Facebook app for tour...
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TripAdvisor Local Picks Facebook restaurant app to compete with Yelp and Zagat
Eat like a local and compete on a grand scale with Yelp, Zagat and Google+ Local. Those are some of the things that TripAdvisor must have in mind for users and the competitive landscape as it...
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CarTrawler packages up tech into Facebook app
CarTrawler is opening up social media retailing for travel companies via a Facebook application based on its open source technology. The app gives consumers access to CarTrawler’s 30,000 city and...
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HipGeo app for iPhone adds location-based video
Today HipGeo, the trip journal app for iPhone and iPad, adds a tool that lets users record travel video and automatically geo-locate these video clips on maps and timelines, which can be shared on...
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The Scan: UK hotels scolded for online rate display, the first use of...
Eleven major hotel chains are routinely breaching British government guidelines and advertising standards rules by not including VAT in headline prices online, and more items in our roundup of the...
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App lets hotel owners add TripAdvisor reviews to their Facebook pages
It’s well known that TripAdvisor sees social media network Facebook as a valuable partner, given that the company has long experimented with Facebook apps such as Trip Friends (friend-sourcing reviews...
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Facebook revamps Nearby: What businesses need to know about the local...
Facebook has revamped the Nearby function on its app for iPhone and Android, making it a true impromptu discovery tool for local businesses and attractions. Facebook, which claims it has 600 million...
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Find Yours: Beyond selling vacations, Expedia pushes emotional connection to...
Travel has always been one of the most emotional products to sell – memories, smells, sounds, sights and experiences all combine to create an intricate tapestry that offers many approachable threads...
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End of the road for social travel app Twigmore
Twigmore, the Facebook-based social travel application, is shutting shop after two years in operation. The New York-based startup (TLabs here) wanted to help travellers meet locals in destinations via...
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Cape Town’s Facebook campaign gets a gong but results do the talking
So Cape Town Tourism has just been awarded a gong for its Facebook Holiday campaign launched last October. Brilliant, but there are so many awards that it’s hard to know what’s worth having so, we...
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Tint gets in on the travel like a local theme via Facebook
Tint, according to its founders, emerged out of an ‘epiphany’ for a website based on Facebook that would provide travel experiences with a more local feel. It is essentially a Facebook application...
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