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		<title>10 things that annoy me when booking holidays online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I read a great post on Travelrants called Ten things that annoy me about booking holidays online. Darren made a list of 10 things that annoy him while booking holidays online.
It&#8217;s clearly the kind of feedback/information people that work for Online Travel Agencies or Hotel Portals would love to gather from their visitors. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/10-things-that-annoy-me-when-booking-holidays-online/</link>
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		<title>Google Chatback: New functionality added to this blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who want to add this Chatback feature to their own blog (or website!), need to register to Google Talk and then they need to create a Google Talk chatback badge. Copy the script and paste it to the page of your choice. You're done.  Enjoy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/google-chatback-new-functionality-added-to-this-blog/</link>
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		<title>Invitations to Netvibes Ginger!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I have been among the lucky ones who were invited to test Netvibes &#8216; new version called Netvibes Ginger Beta (the RSS feed reader).

I am an early adopter of Netvibes, and I think it&#8217;s the best RSS readers available; I have enjoyed a lot the new features Ginger Beta has added and apparently I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/invitations-to-netvibes-ginger/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Domegos: A New Web 2.0 Vacation Rentals Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wandering around the internet, I was searching for 2 different things at the same time: a hotel for a romantic weekend getaway (with our lovely dog!) and a new apartment to rent. I suddenly asked myself: &#8220;Why not renting a vacation home instead of booking the usual same type of hotels (those few hotels that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/domegos-new-vacation-rental-directory/</link>
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		<title>The new Tripadvisor site is online: a retail look and feel!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can have a sneak preview at the new Tripadvisor site by browsing this &#8220;beta&#8221; microsite that TA globally announced today in its newsletter.
The user-generated reviews&#8217; giant Tripavisor (part of the Expedia, Inc. family of travel companies), decided to &#8220;create a new and easier to use&#8221; site. Kristen Nicole from Mashable previously published an article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/the-new-tripadvisor-site-is-online-retail-look-and-feel/</link>
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		<title>New spanish travel aggregator Minube.com launched today!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That&#8217;s what Minube.com (that literally means &#8220;My Cloud&#8221; in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator &#8220;Minube&#8221;.

Minube.com referred itself as being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/spanish-travel-aggregator-minube/</link>
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		<title>US government forces a European airline to stop flying to Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago Mario Hidalgo, CEO of the Spanish airline &#8220;Hola Airlines&#8220; , announced that Hola Airlines (Baleares Link Express SL) has been obliged by the US government to stop its operations in Cuba .
The US Government threatened Hola Airlines via Boeing to end the service of maintenance of the Boeing aircraft belonging to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/us-government-obliged-a-european-airline-to-stop-flying-to-cuba/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Flight Reviews: 7 hours stuck in a Delta Airline airplane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now quite familiar with customer-written hotel reviews; we also know about the trendy use of video reviews of hotels but what about reviews of flights?!
Yesterday I stumbled upon an incredible amateur video that made it to the top #20 of the most watched video of Youtube. The statistics speak for themselves:
Views: 76,062
Comments: 468
Favorited: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/introduction-to-flight-reviews-unbelievable-video/</link>
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		<title>500 feedburner readers and good SEO results!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[500 RSS Subscribers:

I am pretty happy to announce that Blog on travel finally passed the psychological barrier of 500 subscribers to its RSS feed today (via feedburner). It has been quite a long way to achieve this, you can see this in the graph below that shows the RSS Subscribers of this blog from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/500-feedburner-readers-and-good-seo-results/</link>
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		<title>Loic Le Meur interviews the CEO of Trivop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting interview of Thomas Owadenko that Loic Le Meur just uploaded on his blog. Thomas is the CEO of the new travel 2.0 site called Trivop.

 

Trivop.com is a very good example of a good use of web 2.0 in the travel industry. It is a platform of video reviews of hotels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogontravel.com/loic-le-meur-interviews-the-ceo-of-trivop/</link>
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