What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 21 February to Saturday 27 February 2010.... Read More

JetBlue says it voluntarily halted flights from taking off for an hour this afternoon, but the technical glitch that caused it had nothing to do with its new SabreSonic reservations system.... Read More

SeaWorld has silenced Shamu as the voice of one of its Twitter accounts, but continues to engage its customers through various social-media outlets.... Read More

As the U.S. Travel Association gets ready to present a strategic plan to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce next week, in the wake of Thursday's passage of the Travel Promotion Act by the Senate, USTA President and CEO Roger Dow says e-mail and online marketing will play "a good part" in the upcoming efforts to market the U.S. as an inbound travel destination.... Read More

Figures released by hotel management software firm RateTiger paint an intriguing picture of the continual climb in online activity by hotels.... Read More

TripAdvisor has come up with a clever way of slicing and dicing its content for marketing purposes by naming its Top 10 movie hotels in the U.S., and leveraging its user-generated content to do so.... Read More

A Canadian tour operator, Go Travel South, ceased doing business "due to economic circumstances" and informed travelers that their "flights will not be departing."... Read More

Abacus says investments in technology and online space have paid off for agents with more wanting to embrace new channels.... Read More

Dublin-based Datalex, through its Travel Distribution Platform, enabled South African Airways to begin cross-selling hotels and car rentals within South Africa, the companies say.... Read More

The Priceline Hotel Negotiator, Kayak and Travelocity mobile apps may be among the top 10 free travel apps in Apple's Apps Store, but they all lack one feature that's available in Concur's mobile app -- the ability to book Southwest Airlines.... Read More

Accommodation rental specialist giant HomeAway has moved quickly to deny suggestions that it will list on the public markets.... Read More

As it pledged to do two months ago, Carnival Cruise Lines revamped its first social-media policy, removing previous restrictions on travel-agent partners' use of CCL trademarks in tweets, status updates and blog posts.... Read More

In a move likely to reignite the ongoing debate about Google's influence over the travel industry, engineers have the sector back on their radars as they launch another AdWords Comparison Ads trial.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending February 20 2010.... Read More

Expedia Inc. President and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made a super prediction today: He expects vacation-rental leader HomeAway, which ran a 30-second TV advertisement during the Super Bowl, to become a public company in 2010 or 2011.... Read More