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Google now providing airline reservations system to regional carrier Cape Air

By Dennis Schaal | March 1, 2012

It was seven or eight years in the making, but Google's ITA Software now has its Passenger Service System in production with an airline, albeit a relatively small one, regional carrier Cape Air. Read More

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What happens when you apply semantic search technology to hotel websites?

By Viewpoints | February 28, 2012

A hotel is dynamic -- a veritable revolving door of people and activities. Yet most hotel websites are dynamic only in the booking process. Read More

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Five ingredients of basic digital marketing that can help hotel SEO, but many still ignore

By Viewpoints | February 27, 2012

Independent hotels are paranoid about visibility. The industry is extremely competitive: as within any market with oversupply, capturing market share means someone else is losing out. Read More

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Google gets futuristic with information and images delivered to eyewear

By Linda Fox | February 22, 2012

Think Terminator or, Clark Kent (Superman) when he removes his glasses to scan a situation, to get some idea of one of the projects Google might currently be working on Read More

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FairSearch brings its anti-Google campaign to Europe, uses old Microsoft foe to lead operations

By Kevin May | February 21, 2012

FairSearch, the US lobbying group created originally to fight the mighty Google after the purchase of ITA Software was announced in 2010, is heading across the Atlantic. Read More

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Who is so far feeling the heat from Google Flight Search? No major surprises here

By Kevin May | February 17, 2012

In October 2011, about a month after the buzz around the launch of Google Flight Search and (kind of) subsided, Tnooz published traffic share figures for the fledgling service. Read More

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Three reasons why the evolution in travel payment functions cannot be ignored

By Viewpoints | February 15, 2012

The recent buzz around regaining control of pricing and margins in hotel distribution is deafening. Everyone seems to want a piece of the action. Read More

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Why destination marketing providers need to think more like Google, Apple and Facebook

By Viewpoints | February 14, 2012

The current DMO technology-pricing model is killing the sector and making destination marketers increasingly irrelevant. Read More

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How airlines are beginning to play with Google Plus [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | February 9, 2012

Still relatively early days, but travel companies are certainly starting to take Google Plus seriously, with airlines testing the water perhaps more than other sectors in the industry. Read More

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Google who? Expedia largest traffic source for Priceline

By Dennis Schaal | February 6, 2012

Break up Expedia -- it may wield too much power over Priceline's fate. Read More

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Getting mobile web basics right in travel is still a target rather than an achievement

By Glenn Gruber | February 3, 2012

As we got towards the end of 2011, many people were asking me what I thought was next in the world of mobile and whether I had any predictions. Read More

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Room 77 comes out fighting as Concur reveals investment, pledges to out-Kayak Kayak

By Kevin May | February 2, 2012

The hotel sector is getting rather interesting (and feisty) in 2012, as some predicted, with the likes of Google wading in deeper and the GDSs ramping up their efforts. Read More

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With Google, Apple and Facebook on the prowl, will hotels lose even more control of distribution?

By Dennis Schaal | January 25, 2012

In the middle of the last decade, hotels flexed some muscle to take back some semblance of distribution control from the likes of Expedia and Hotels.com, but with Google, Apple and Facebook waiting in... Read More