Tax day, April 15, has come and gone in the United States - which means that a significant portion of the population will soon have refunds burning a hole in their pockets.... Read More

TnoozLIVE returns for the latest in its series of outings for 2013 - debating the hot stories of the moment and with a special look at one of the ongoing issues affecting the industry.... Read More

Muhammad Ali famously once said: "Often, it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe."... Read More

9Flats, the Berlin-based vacation rental startup, is either joining the new wave of digital commerce or riding the PR wave and accepting the Bitcoin for customer payments.... Read More

Carlson Wagonlit Travel plans customer trials this year of a mobile service fronted by an avatar called Carla... Read More

Worldwide air traffic volume grew 5% between 2011 and 2012, with Asia being the largest, fastest-growing and most competitive market for air travel.... Read More

MapQuest continues to tweak its product offering, now offering up Priceline fares in their mapping product. The Priceline Partner Network will power the newly launched feature to book travel directly on site. Customers will be able to book hotels, flights and rental cars within their search results.... Read More

IATA’s proposed NDC airline standard won’t meet the performance necessary to meet the demands of internet surfers according to a senior Google exec... Read More

Last week, Sean O’Neill reported here on how Twitter is enabling mobile app deep-linking, and the benefit of such technology on e-commerce.... Read More

Gather a bunch of airline bosses in a room and ask them what they want from technology – the answer doesn’t seem like rocket science... Read More

Boutique hotel aggregation is a sizzling sector in the travel industry: Jetsetter was just purchased by TripAdvisor, startups like Want Me Get Me are aiming squarely at the segment, and stalwarts like Mr and Mrs Smith are still thriving amidst the upstarts - the latest being Coo Boutique.... Read More

The London-based travel agency startup focused on European rail has announced that it's now powering a train ticket booking tool on the newspaper's website, branded as Guardian Trains.... Read More

The US startup is helping publishers like Boston.com and Vagabondish make money by packaging and serving advertorials, or "native advertising."... Read More

Mobile device hotel bookings grew 300% to $3 billion, says Booking.com, and more travel tech news.... Read More

Another city, another travel hackathon - with a team from Flight Centre creating a mobile service to help travellers on the road and another team helping festival goers organise their trip.... Read More