When he talks about HomeAway's lead in vacation rentals and Booking.com's edge in the retail-hotel business in Europe and Asia, Expedia Inc.'s Dara Khosrowshahi offers a similar refrain.... Read More

A bunch of travel -- and nontravel -- heavywieghts have ponied up "several million dollars" for the latest stealth travel startup, Room 77.... Read More

A list of the top 20 brands mentioned on Twitter in April 2010 featured companies of all shapes and sizes - from media and technology to clothing and coffee - but unfortunately not a travel firm in sight.... Read More

Would Google get "abusive" if it acquires ITA Software and gains even more market power in travel?... Read More

Behind the now extremely bitter war between British Airways and the Unite trade union representing unhappy cabin crew is an increasingly fierce web campaign.... Read More

With wonderful timing, Hostelworld has unveiled what is believed to be one of the first major real-time collaboration, travel search and booking engines for Google Wave.... Read More

Almost two years in the making, InsideTrip has emerged from its beta testing period with what it claims is a full service search engine that incorporates many other elements of a journey.... Read More

Old school directory Yellow Pages - now through its online incarnation Yell.com - is moving into local review service Yelp territory after snapping up UK-based TrustedPlaces.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending May 15 2010.... Read More

Cornerstone Information Systems unveiled a tool travel managers can use when all hell breaks loose in crisis situations such as the ongoing turmoil in Thailand or recent unrest in Greece.... Read More

At least one tourism board, VisitFlorida.com, isn't shying away from the threatening oil spill in its social media efforts.... Read More

Orbitz Worldwide is focused on two missions: building its hotel and media businesses. And with the launch of AdventureFinder, it is fortifying the latter.... Read More

In unveiling its global mobile solution, mobileXtend, American Express Business Travel has come up with an offering that is global distribution system and corporate-booking tool agnostic.... Read More

So, what's up with the Google-ITA Software merger talks a month after they came to light? Could another suitor be trying to steal away that sexy girl from Cambridge, Mass?... Read More

Guidebook giant Lonely Planet was hoping to extol the virtues of its new virtual sales rep system - but appears to be running into a storm of sorts with a decision to almost ignore the Bangkok riots.... Read More