Category: Travel Marketing

Big aggregated list of trends from Tnooz’s consultants.  Mobile features very prominently in most of the lists! 1. Mobile only startups are going to be caught up by existing companies launching mobile services 2. Big...

Company well-positioned to support recent acquisition spree… Here’s more from Maybank Kim Eng: Overseas expansion. FEOR recently inked a non-binding MOU with Straits Trading Company (STC) to consider acquiring: (1)...

Singapore Holiday Hotel Deals 2012-2013 Enjoy 50% Off Your 2nd Night’s Stay!   Planning for your holiday in Singapore?  Book a minimum 2-nights and get 50% off your 2nd night’s stay. Your 2nd night can start...

Far East Hospitality Launches New e-Commerce Website Singapore’s largest hotel group Far East Hospitality has officially launched its new website StayFarEast.com to the world. To celebrate its rollout, for a limited time...

Google buys Frommers, destination content in search just got a little bit more interesting Google has made another strategic acquisition in the travel space, snapping up guidebook and online destination content publisher...

After a rough year of defending itself from its detractors, TripAdvisor now describes itself as the more modest “reviews and advice on hotels, resorts, flights, vacation rentals, vacation packages, travel guides, and lots more”...

Now that the Advertising Standards Authority has banned hotel recommendation site TripAdvisor from claiming its reviews as truthful, it’s going to be harder than ever to sift out the real from faked. We’re here to...

If Local Search Marketing was hot before last week it’s now smoking hot! We’re going to tell you what has changed in Local Search, What it means for your business and how you can leverage these changes to your advantage so keep...

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace. Online retailers make it cheap and easy to browse, comparison shop, and make purchases with the click of a mouse. The...

A whitepaper by Cornell University academics on how to detect fraudulent TripAdvisor reviews: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~myleott/prevalence_WWW2012.pdf

HNN: What is your stance on fake reviews and what is TripAdvisor doing to combat them? SK: “We’ve been dealing with the issue for 10 years now so we have a decade of expertise at catching folks that are trying to spam our...