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UsingMiles introduces bonus awards for frequent flyers along with flight search results

Airlines are doing their best to personalize offers to customers, and UsingMiles should consider doing likewise for users in the free results instead of just doing it for premium members. Otherwise, it clutters up UsingMiles for the average user.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

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Fraud risky business for travel firms as IT complexity increases

Travel firms need to follow best practices in their vigilance against fraud. Phishing practices in the vacation rental industry, for example, are getting out of hand.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Wealthy travelers are paying big bucks for bragging rights and customized itineraries

Isn’t half the fun of travel figuring it out as you go? Legacy tour operators and a crop of startups are offering these millionaires the façade of an adventure while making sure they never actually have to get too dirty.

Skift | 12 years ago

Wealthy travelers are paying big bucks for bragging rights and customized itineraries

Hotels

What Apple and Zappos can teach hotels about humanizing their brand identity

The principles can be applied in any industry, but hotels are particularly posed for success with visible employees that can be recruited to emulate and build brand loyalty both in person and online.

Skift | 12 years ago

What Apple and Zappos can teach hotels about humanizing their brand identity

Ground Transport

London taxi-booking app Hailo enters U.S. market with Boston launch today

Uber paved the way for Hailo in Boston when city officials cleared the way for similar apps, but it will need to go it alone in New York City now that Uber has retreated from the market.

Skift | 12 years ago

London taxi-booking app Hailo enters U.S. market with Boston launch today

Uncategorized

Was Felix Baumgartner’s jump the unofficial kickoff to the age of space tourism?

Felix’s one-man jump leads the way and builds hype for layman-friendly space programs like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, which didn’t even need to play sponsor to score the inadvertent promotion.

Skift | 12 years ago

Was Felix Baumgartner’s jump the unofficial kickoff to the age of space tourism?

Tourism

How U.S. visitors can score a visa to ten restricted destinations

It seems near impossible to obtain a visa to North Korea or Iraq by applying in the U.S., but entering through a neighboring nation or setting up a guided tour will usually do the trick.

Skift | 12 years ago

How U.S. visitors can score a visa to ten restricted destinations

Media and PR

Social travel planning and sharing site Travellution raises €300k

Travellution is joining the travel social network party a good six months after the early entrants started pivoting or closing once they realized that there's already a travel social network called Facebook.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Organization responsible for promoting Atlantic City says its efforts are working

Not so fast on the success story: There's a big difference between getting people interested in a marketing message and seeing them actually book a room and travel to Atlantic City.

Wayne Parry, Associated Press | 12 years ago

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London mayor mulls legal action to speed Gatwick runway study

Environmental concerns will be a key concern in determining whether a new runway at Gatwick or third runway at Heathrow is the optimal growth strategy.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines CEO rallies the troops in employee letter after “operational challenges”

All the rhetoric aside, Horton will have to resolve matters with the pilots' union and continue to improve operational performance if American has any chance of winning back turned-off customers.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago