A tribunal has awarded ex-BlueSky Travel Systems staff compensation after ruling no attempt was made to consult when the business went into administration in 2009.... Read More

Gogobot unveils ehanced iPhone app, Expedia hands hotels to Kaleva, American Airlines takes Direct-Connect to Brazil, Travelocity Business boost, Carsolize deals with RoomsXML... What else is going on in the world of travel tech...... Read More

Last week, WorldMate, a maker of itinerary-management apps, debuted a major upgrade to its free and paid apps for iPhone and Android.... Read More

Foursquare will give the one million businesses that have already verified their listing on the service fast-track access to customers via new "local updates" messaging.... Read More

A ranking of the travel booking mobile apps used at least once by US iPhone users in June 2012 is led by Kayak, in a new infographic supplied by Onavo, a maker of apps for data compression and data-monitoring.... Read More

Experiential travel, local travel, responsible travel, ethical travel, ecotourism. Can you spot the difference?... Read More

In a claim almost guaranteed to irk its noisiest critics, TripAdvisor reckons that page views of its content (ie. reviews) had some influence on £1.7 billion worth of business in 2011.... Read More

Google has recorded quite a spike in queries for last minute travel products from mobile devices in recent months... Read More

Merchants with Square software will be able to receive a signal from customers who have downloaded the Square app to authenticate them via geo-location services and process a transaction by matching a customer's face and voice with a database record.... Read More

Newspapers have spent the best part of, well, ever since the web came along, trying to figure out how to capitalise on travel search and content being one of the most popular activities online.... Read More

User review site TripAdvisor has lost an eighth of its market share in the battle at the top of the leading travel websites in New Zealand.... Read More

Travel Onion, a three-year old, US-based startup, relaunched this month to become an aggregation service for about 120 daily deals sites along with blogs and contests.... Read More

Maps have a transformative power – they are a relentless source of visual creativity, especially in the travel industry.... Read More

Over seven months after co-founder and CEO Tom Romary quit the company, Yapta has installed a new boss to take care of the airfare price tracking service.... Read More

Amazing that an airline of EasyJet's size until today didn't have a mobile-optimised website - but the launch marks the latest foray by the carrier into services on-the-go.... Read More