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Local Deals: Go wide or deep? Travelzoo chooses expansion with 27 new markets

Travelzoo accelerated its expansion pace and launched Local Deals in 27 new markets in the second quarter, all part of its goal to be emailing Local Deals to consumers  in 100 markets by the end of the...

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Viator joins the member-only travel deal brigade

Seems like the industry cannot get enough of a good thing, or the zeitgeist at least, with Viator the latest travel site to launch a members-only service to get exclusive deals. Launching...

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Travelzoo CEO fighting back after share price wobble and shareholder suit

What does any self-respecting CEO do when a company is under a little bit of pressure? Hit the business TV channel interviews. In short, it hasn’t been the greatest few weeks for Travelzoo – shares...

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LivingSocial ramps up Escapes travel wing with Europe expansion

Nine months after launching in the US, group buying and flash sale giant LivingSocial is extending its Escapes travel service into Europe for the first time. UK will be the first country to get the...

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Facebook kills Deals product test after eight months

Even the mighty Facebook is not afraid to quit when something hasn’t turned out as expected – and thus the social network has axed Facebook Deals. Facebook launched its assault on the burgeoning Deals...

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Travelzoo to add Local Deals from Europe, Hong Kong and Australia to iPhone app

Should Travelzoo develop one iPhone app or eight? The Top 20 travel deals publisher and Local Deals voucher-seller has opted for one iPhone app and plans in the next couple of weeks to add Local Deals...

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Travelzoo Local Deals — cannibalization or intentional shift?

Is the year-old Travelzoo voucher business in the form of Local Deals and Getaways cannibalizing its heretofore core Top 20 deals and travel-media business? Chris Loughlin, Travelzoo’s CEO,...

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TownWizard takes local events and information to mobile apps and websites

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based TownWizard, a hyper-local event and information platform for mobiles and the web. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? After...

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Google Offers expanding with JetBlue on board as national advertiser

Google Offers, the search giant’s answer to Groupon, LivingSocial and Travelzoo, has now expanded to about 35 US markets, with JetBlue on board as a national advertiser. During Google’s fourth quarter...

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The Travelzoo disadvantage — profit imperative

Travelzoo is bullish about its Local Deals business, arguing that its offers are higher quality than competitors’ and that its customers are older and have more disposable income than the clientele of...

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Travelzoo launches mobile site and Android app — if you come, they will build it

With 17.5% of its global website traffic already coming from mobile browsers, Travelzoo unveiled its first mobile website, in the US, and debuted an Android app, as well. “The mobile website is a big...

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Travelzoo blasts daily deals sites for unsustainable practices

Travelzoo CEO Chris Loughlin blasted the competition in the daily deals space for unsustainable practices and acknowledged that the company’s Local Deals business is “hindered in the short term by...

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Milestones for Gogobot and the other Travelzoo

Break out your scorecards: Social travel site Gogobot now boasts more than 1 million registered users and Travelzoo Australia has grown the subscriber base of its deal newsletters to 700,000. Whether...

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Google gets more local and social with Google+ Local

Google is making search more local and social by adding a Local tab to Google+ and also integrating information from your social networking friends plus Zagat restaurant and hotel reviews across Google...

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Travelzoo Asia Pacific debuts China Local Deals in hot group-buying market

Travelzoo Asia Pacific launched Local Deals in China as it tries to stand out amidst the clamor of more than 1,000 group-buying sites in the country. A licensee of Travelzoo controlled by Ralph Bartel,...

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Foursquare launches Local Updates, promoting businesses that claim listings

Businesses that haven’t yet claimed their listing on Foursquare, the geo-location check-in and recommendation mobile app, may want to do so pronto. Foursquare will give the one million businesses that...

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GringoLocal will aggregate and translate local deals and experiences for...

Not just another deals service, GringoLocal set to launch in the next few days, wants to act as a source of local deals helping travellers plan a trip. The Brazil-based startup plans to focus on and...

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Getaway Lounge sold to NineMSN, CEO moves to Agoda for top marketing role

Just a year after commencing operations in the group buying world for hotels stays, Australia-based startup Getaway Lounge has been sold to NineMSN-owned Cudo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but...

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Amazon brings local deals to the UK, first stop London

Move over Groupon and company, just over a year since launching local deals in the US, Amazon has introduced a similar service in the UK. AmazonLocal offers restaurant, spa deals, events and other...

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Travelzoo remains confident in long term, but current plight disappointing

Wobbles at travel deal service Travelzoo, with it posting falls in revenue and net income for the third quarter of 2012 and its share price hitting a two-year low today. Revenues for the year to date...

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