UK-based travel planning and guide service Tripbod is heading to San Francisco for a week of meetings and plenty more with other startups and luminaries from the area.... Read More

Gtrot, a social travel planning service started by a couple of Harvard College students, just received $560,000 in funding, according to a financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.... Read More

HomeAway introduced its free vacation rental search Android app, which was developed by Mobiata, the company Expedia acquired in November.... Read More

Travelocity will randomly hand out a vacation for two to Maui or Vail, Colo., after completing its just-launched beach or ski Facebook vote, but the online travel agency, too, will assuredly come up a winner.... Read More

Given that the Hipmunk experience is based on a highly visual and, well, wide format it was always going to be interesting to see how it would migrate to a mobile app.... Read More

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An industry with multiple standards bodies using the same type of technology addressing the same business functions could be seen as an indication of an industry in some disarray.... Read More

One of the top discussions among hotel marketers today is about cutting costs and growing revenues in this tough market.... Read More

Interesting - and perhaps some surprising - results from a survey produced to understand more about consumers who buy budget and hostel accommodation.... Read More

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UK users of Google Maps appear to be the first to see a new feature which calculates the cost of fuel for a journey by road vehicles - an ideal feature for car hire users.... Read More

Yahoo has rolled out its new travel platform for users in the UK, with an emphasis on trip planning and travel guide content from the likes of Lonely Planet.... Read More

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Mr and Mrs Smith has spent the last six months creating high-quality online videos of our boutique hotels – 10 to start with, 790 to go.... Read More

Travel social network WAYN is bringing in flight search engine Momondo at the expense of rival Kayak as it looks to concentrate on destination-based products.... Read More