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Articles tagged “data”

Online Travel

Someone has finally done something about roaming charges

Whether it's privacy issues or roaming charges, the EU is light years ahead of the U.S. in its consumer protections. Nothing ruins a vacation like a data-roaming bill when you return home.

Harriet Meyer, The Guardian | 10 years ago

Someone has finally done something about roaming charges

Airlines

The center of modern-day aviation sits in a rural field in Poland

The concentration of flights in Europe and the northern hemisphere highlights which countries benefit the most from business and leisure travel and how much potential there still is for further connectivity.

David Yanofsky, Quartz | 10 years ago

Hotels

Florida tourism board mines data to attract visitors

Smart tourism boards are getting a digital edge in their marketing efforts by analyzing visitor data.

Emily Roach, The Palm Beach Post | 10 years ago

Florida tourism board mines data to attract visitors

Hotels

Hospitality data startup Duetto raises $10 million in first round

Duetto’s team has a critical mix of industry insider expertise and tech experience, but adoption from hotel brands that are hesitant to learn a new system will be the company’s biggest hurdle to success.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

The U.S. hotel industry will end 2012 with high marks all around

Some markets are indeed gaining faster than others, but this year's numbers are enough to get operators agressively investing again following the great big project freeze of 2008.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

The U.S. hotel industry will end 2012 with high marks all around

SkiftX

Ten big data dilemmas that travel companies are working through

Execs might be sick of seeing "big data" in the news, but the sooner they make some key hires and get a grasp on data sharing, consolidation, and organization, the sooner they’ll succeed.

Skift | 11 years ago

Skift Originals

TripAdvisor acquires Wanderfly to build out its social travel efforts

More of a tuck-in picking-up-assets acquisition for Tripadvisor as it ramps up its social travel efforts, as a layer on top of its giant behemoth of a machine.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Google gets exclusive access to open transport data from German railway

Open data helps drive innovation amidst competition and is especially important for building independent tools for when big companies (like Apple’s maps) fail to use the data most effectively.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

What’s behind Hopper’s $22 million gamble on big data travel planning?

Hopper is doing heavy lifting in amassing data to spur travel inspiration. Five years in the making already, it needs to deliver out of the gate, or become an expensive road kill.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

What’s behind Hopper’s $22 million gamble on big data travel planning?

Media and PR

TripAdvisor’s friendship with Facebook hits its bottom line this quarter

Stephen Kaufer isn't going to be the most popular guy on Wall Street, but TripAdvisor's attempt to crunch user data and pour money into Facebook marketing to get better conversions for advertising partners, looks like a sage move. If analysts, looking for immediate results, don't like it, they can always write a review.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago