It’s not hard to send your friends a vacation postcard from Saturn — even if you never actually visit.... Read More

A key metric for forecasting if online travel agencies (OTAs) can thrive is their advertising efficiency, or ad expenditure divided by room nights booked.... Read More

Trippiece, a Tokyo-based user generated content-led travel planner, has secured a funding of $2 million from Draper Nexus Venture Partners and other investors.... Read More

Custom city map startup Suggestme now offers printed versions of their digital personalized maps created by travelers.... Read More

The BYOD trend (bring your own device): There’s no use debating it. It’s here to stay. And it’ll get worse before it gets better.... Read More

Orbitz-owned HotelClub is gearing up to make some big changes to it’s offering for consumers in mainland China by the end of the year.... Read More

A two-hour systems crash affected as many as 400 airlines and 100 airports. Some boarding passes had to be handwritten.... Read More

The early reviews are in for Leap Motion, a wireless device aimed at replacing the computer mouse with hand-based gestures similar to the ones used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report.... Read More

TripLingo today has announced a significant partnership with Celebrity Cruises, bringing the native fluency app to the high seas.... Read More

US rental car companies have succeeded in the past year in boosting transactions on their own "brand.com" websites, according to HeBS Digital/Adobe Digital research.... Read More

British Airways has released their latest video, Visit Mum, an emotionally resonant tale of a mother who misses her son.... Read More

A study by HVS, a consultancy, predicts the changes in per-room value through 2016 for the ten markets that are anticipated to fare the best, along with the US predicted average. Florida tops the tables.... Read More

The average banner ad has a miserable clickthrough rate (CTR) of 0.1 percent, according to interactive marketing news resource ClickZ.... Read More

TripCase used to be primarily a B2C play but Sabre wants to make it a B2B/B2C play. But can the app overtake Concur's TripIt?... Read More

In a financial reporting call, Amadeus IT Group discusses its continued revenue growth. The company now has a 40% market share of travel agency air bookings. It posted increased first half profits on the back of expansion.... Read More