Significant push by Hotel Urbano last week in the list of leading travel sites in Brazil, extending its lead over Booking.com and securing almost double the amount of traffic share.... Read More

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

Oyster dives into iPad waters, SoftBrands enjoys customer wins, Megabus stops for apps, Hotel.info embraces English. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More

Walking the floor of last week's Business Travel Show threw up a number of interesting developments which were less about innovation and more about services to help travellers on the go... Read More

KLM Surprise is still probably the best example yet of how a travel brand can use the social graph to discover and engage with customers in an unusual and valuable way.... Read More

Facebook page? Check! Twitter account and dedicated hastags? Check! Competitions, discounts and giveaways? Check! Any real, measurable and abundant ROI from social media campaigns? Erm, guys?... Read More

Orbitz Worldwide is pinning its hopes on a now-completed technology platform migration and an American Express private label deal, which is supposed to generate some momentum starting in the fourth quarter of 2012.... Read More

Japan has certainly had its difficulties over the past 12 months - if a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami were not enough, both helped trigger one of the world's worst nuclear accidents for decades.... Read More

Kayak began integrating TripAdvisor's 60 million hotel reviews and ratings on Kayak.com and Kayak UK, and plans to introduce them globally.... Read More

It is currently Responsible Tourism Week. In the tours and activities sector, so-called responsible tourism is important. Very important.... Read More

Details have emerged as to the reason for a technical failure at Amadeus two weeks ago which affected the systems behind dozens of airlines.... Read More

Destination marketing organisation North Wales Borderlands has taken an interesting approach to encouragign people to tour the region with its 'Great North Wales Borderlands Adventure Trail' promotion launched this week... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Australia-based WeMetOnAPlane, a network to help travellers locate fellow air passengers.... Read More

All change at the top in Australia as Wotif gained enough additional share of traffic in the destination and accommodation category to unseat its main rival TripAdvisor.... Read More

Rearden Commerce has crunched a decade's worth of Big Data, namely data on 67 million flights from 24 US airlines over 10 years, in a bid to enhance flight search in its Deem Travel booking platform.... Read More