Travelport, which is moving ahead with plans for its initial public offering, is getting all its ducks in a row by approving equity awards, cash bonuses and new employment contracts for top management.... Read More

Consumer-to-travel agent lead generator Tripology is frantically looking for new funding after a new financial partner pulled out after just a few weeks with the team.... Read More

Hot on the heels of research yesterday that indicated an apparent mass reluctance to make bookings on handsets is better news for the mobile travel sector - ticketing is booming.... Read More

Having shed its money-losing Asia-Pacific businesses in the fourth quarter, Travelzoo posted net income of $1.5 million during the period from its businesses in North America and Europe on revenue of $23.8 million, a 21% year-over-year increase.... Read More

Many people are saying that the hardest issue that travel companies will have to deal with in 2010 is not recruiting employees but keeping the ones they already have.... Read More

Trip-planning website NileGuide signed a content partnership with Wine Travel Guides, enabling NileGuide users to tap into expert tips on wine tours in France, Italy and Spain.... Read More

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Leading Shanghai-based online travel agency Ctrip.com revealed it intends to pay $88 million in cash to buy 90% of the shares of Wing On Travel, a leisure travel agency headquartered in Hong Kong.... Read More

There's much more to readying an advertisement for Sunday night's Super Bowl than striking the optimum creative and branding themes: HomeAway, apparently the lone travel dot-com advertiser this year, invested some $1 million in new hardware to handle an anticipated spike in website traffic, the company says.... Read More

Two leading U.S. travel industry groups, the American Hotel & Lodging Association and the Interactive Travel Services Association, are discussing terms for a sitdown over their bitter clash about ITSA's push for federal legislation that would limit online travel agencies' exposure to local hotel-occupancy taxes.... Read More

Holiday rental giant HomeAway has quadrupled its PR budget in the UK for 2010 to help engineer an initiative to send two bloggers around the world for 12 months.... Read More

An in-depth report into online fraud and how companies are dealing with such activity also claims 78% of consumers will never make a booking on their phone.... Read More

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A Facebook poll to find which US state can get the most 'fans' might be interesting in the short term but over time it is probably - and unfortunately - utterly meaningless.... Read More

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