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| Global hotel and accommodation search platform Trivago credits vaccination efforts in markets such as the U.S. and Israel with spurring a jump in travel activity that gave the site a 60% increase in referral revenue -- its primary source of revenue -- in March compared to February. Total referral revenue in the first quarter was $39 million, down from $164million in Q1 2020.  Trivago's "developed Europe" segment saw the sharpest decline in referral revenue year-over-year -- 83% -- while the Americas dropped 66% and "rest of the world" was down 67%.  In a letter to shareholders regarding ...

This Week in Apps: An Apple event, more Clubhouse clones and an app store antitrust hearing Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live ...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more The pandemic forced travel brands to get smarter by using their loyalty programs to engage with consumers even when those customers aren’t traveling. That new skillset will have a lasting impact even after the pandemic eventually fades. Being savvier at engaging customers at all times was one of the four takeaways from Skift Live’s Loyalty and Subscription Summit, which took place as a virtual event on April 21. Other takeaways included revamping loyalty programs to ...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Tripadvisor believes its new subscription product could become a new business line generating more than $1 billion a year. But that will likely only happen if the company can make the program about more than just a mechanism for consumers to get discounts on hotels, experiences, and other travel offerings. That was the word from Brad Soroca, Tripadvisor’s vice president of marketing and business development and general manager of direct to consumer, when speaking about...

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