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  • Millennials increasingly using travel agents for bookings: report

    • February 26, 2016
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    • Category: Tourism, Travel, Travel Technology
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    The findings of a new report suggest that U.S. travellers are increasingly turning towards travel agents to book their holidays. And perhaps more surprisingly, it’s the digital natives or Millennials, who are leading the charge. That’s according to a new report released by the American Society of Travel Agents which reached out to 14,000 households

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  • 4 Charts That Illustrate the State of Mobile Travel App Bookings

    • February 12, 2016
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    This year hotels are making one of the biggest pushes they’ve ever made to convince guests to book direct but at the same time booking site mobile app downloads–and bookings–are significantly up compared to last year. MMGY Global’s 2016 Portrait of American Travelers study found there was a 20 percentage point increase in respondents that indicated

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  • IATA publishes NDC registry

    • February 10, 2016
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    • Category: Airline, Tourism, Travel Technology
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    IATA’s registry of companies that are certified for New Distribution Capability (NDC) is now live. The NDC Certification Registry was announced last fall. It is publicly available on IATA’s website. According to IATA, certification “confirms the scope and level of an entity’s ability to receive and send NDC messages.” NDC is an XML-based data transmission

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