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Mobile Apps. Kayak unites with GetYourGuide for mobile activities. Another interesting partnership for tour and activity platform GetYourGuide after securing a deal to provide product to the Kayak mobile app. The Europe-based website will have a dedicated channel on the Kayak iPhone application as part of a wider upgrade to the service released this week. When users have selected a tour or activity within a destination on the app they are taken through a series of tools to collect information about the user’s requirements and date selection, before allowing the product to be booked within a brand GetYourGuide screen. It is the first time Kayak has worked with a tour and activity supplier, although the agreement will only see products feature on the mobile version of the travel search service rather than on its main site as well. Expedia B2B. Rezgo - Cloud based software for tour & activity operators. Expedia ups the ante in tours and activities, major focus on helping suppliers and intermediaries.
Expedia is set to make a massive push into the tours, activities and things-to-do sector, with a major strategy to give suppliers the tools for distribution and marketing. The company is also planning on giving hotels and airlines the ability to sell products with a suite of services aimed at making tours and activities as important a part of a traveller’s itinerary as a hotel, car hire or airfare. In short: Expedia is plotting a significant and laser-focused move on the sector, way beyond its existing and somewhat low-key approach to selling things-to-do in a destination.
The ramping up of its strategy is already being talked about privately by those currently in the market and “watching extremely closely” as a game-changing and deliberate move to target arguably the last remaining area of the tourism industry to fully embrace the opportunities apparently associated with electronic distribution. Why? Local Expert Local Access Local Custom Link Local Experiences Xchange Why now?
It hopes so. Tealeaf webinar VIDEO: The mobile traveler experience. Combine mobile trends and the user experience in travel with consumer expectations – what do you get? Some winners and some losers in the travel business. These are some of the core issues are the heart of how the travel industry is grappling with the rise of the always connected traveller, so how do companies – both leisure and business-focused – deal with it? Tnooz and Tealeaf, an IBM Company, produced a webinar to outline some of the problems at the heart of the new mobile traveller experience.
What does “mobile first” really mean? How do consumers use mobile phones for travel today? Panellists: Bill Loller, vice president of mobile product management, Tealeaf, an IBM CompanyJulie Ask, vice president and principal analyst, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, Forrester Research Inc.Kevin May, editor and moderatorGene Quinn, CEO and producer. Here is the full video of the webinar: And the slides: