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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlizzardInternetMarketing/Travel-Stats/~4/aGI-6iWJ7H8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.blizzardinternet.com/5441/mobile-booking-window/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments><feedburner:origLink>http://www.blizzardinternet.com/5441/mobile-booking-window/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Flash Sales Growing in Importance in Travel Industry</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlizzardInternetMarketing/Travel-Stats/~3/0CrwQuBLb0k/</link><category>Consumer Behavior</category><category>Social Media</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:49:56 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blizzardinternet.com/?p=5436</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[Chris Davidson, Chief Client Officer of Y Partnership, shared some  travel market data during the Vacation Rental Manager Association 2011 national conference.  Notably: Flash sales in the travel and...<br/>
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlizzardInternetMarketing/Travel-Stats/~4/0CrwQuBLb0k" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.blizzardinternet.com/5436/flash-sales-travel-tourism/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">1</slash:comments><feedburner:origLink>http://www.blizzardinternet.com/5436/flash-sales-travel-tourism/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stats from Google on Travel and Online Travel Research</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlizzardInternetMarketing/Travel-Stats/~3/F6mvG8n5y9g/</link><category>2011</category><category>Consumer Behavior</category><category>Email</category><category>Hotel</category><category>Industry</category><category>Mobile</category><category>Reviews</category><category>Social Media</category><category>Travel</category><category>Vacation Rental</category><category>Video</category><category>Year</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:31:51 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blizzardinternet.com/?p=5427</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[The following stats were shared by Haley Knowlton Gribben, an Adwords Account Manager from Google. She presented at the Vacation Rental Manager Association&#8217;s Annual Conference on October 10th...<br/>
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