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Priceline pays over $1 billion a year to bring in traffic from Google."Meiri reveals that Google gets paid $11 for each hotel reservation it helps Priceline obtain and $22 from Expedia. "The large companies don't care if it's the customer's first or tenth booking, or whether he prefers business class or coach," he says. "There is no concern about the person behind the search. This is where the opportunity lies." Israel hasn't yet developed a critical mass of companies or know-how in the field of tourism. This is evidenced by no major investments in the area having been made, no large exits having been executed, and hardly any development centers having been set up locally by the leading multinationals in the industry.One exception is the Orbitz development center in Herzliya whose story represents the digital tourism industry's situation in Israel in a nutshell. The local activity is based on Neat Research, a startup acquired by Cendant which later purchased Orbitz.

The Israeli startup's activity was subsequently merged into the operations of Orbitz.Have you planned to buy a new house this year Xinjiang China Tours are you thinking of kitchen remodeling.Neat Research developed a method for bundling flight plans,If you're not a technology person or don't want to go that way email silk road group tour call people to tell everyone you're putting your house up for auction. hotel accommodations, rental car and attractions together into attractively priced travel packages. United Airlines and Orbitz itself were among the company's clients. Following the merger the Israeli technology was transferred to India.The staff in Israel, numbering 28 at its peak, formed the basis of the Orbitz's largest development center outside the U.S. but a decision was reached in December to close it down as part of a company-wide cost cutting drive. Most of the local employees were laid off in May and the center is slated to shut down completely at the beginning of 2014."Large companies like Expedia and Orbitz aren't interested in the Israeli market, probably due to the complexities of the language and market size," says Yori Landau, CEO of Orbitz Israel. "Booking has proved that it's interested in every place where sales can be made." Landau points out that innovation in the tourism industry has been nearly nonexistent.