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Traditional guidebook publisher and newbie, Frommers and NileGuide, trade...
Frommer’s and NileGuide entered into a content and technology deal where NileGuide powers a portion of a new Itineraries tab on Frommers.com and Frommer’s provides destination content to NileGuide.com...
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Frommer’s to provide content for WomansDay.com travel tab
WomansDay, with its almost 1.6 million unique visitors per month, plans to create a travel tab, featuring content from Frommer’s Unlimited. Frommer’s Unlimited, the B2B business of the guidebook...
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Lonely Planet takes startup route for mobile development, no equity for BBC...
An interesting move from Lonely Planet last week with the unveiling of a startup company to develop social mobile travel guides. Details about San-Francisco-based Fourforty are sketchy although work on...
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Tnooz Nuggets – Friday 21 October 2011
This is the regular Tnooz roundup of product news from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry, all with a technology, online and digital twist – Friday 21 October 2011. HipGeo added a...
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How design students think the travel guide of the future might look
As part of an ongoing collaboration between DK and the London College of Communication, the guidebook specialist challenged design students to come up with the travel guide of the future. Part of the...
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Rough Guides overhauls its website, bringing a fresh look to its guidebook...
Guidebook publisher Rough Guides, owned by Penguin, is giving a sneak peek at its fully revamped website. The new Rough Guides site features responsive design (for better adaptability to tablets). It...
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BBC sells Lonely Planet to NC2 Media for a near £80 million loss
After weeks of speculation and five years in BBC Worldwide’s care, Lonely Planet has been sold to NC2 Media, based in Tennessee. NC2 is paying £51.5 for 100% of the travel guide specialist with £41.2m...
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Arthur Frommer retakes helm of brand he created
The Frommers journey has come full circle, as the company’s original founder Arthur Frommer has re-taken the helm of the brand he created back in 1957. With the Frommer’s Facebook page dormant since...
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City guide app maker Ulmon is Europe’s largest mobile travel startup you’ve...
Vienna’s Ulmon offers city guide apps, primarily City Maps 2Go guides, in multiple languages. The apps are map-centric, with 6,700 interactive city maps that feature enhanced point-of-interest content....
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