Kicking it in with other airlines pursuing ancillary services, Continental will begin offering passengers the option of purchasing economy-class seats with extra legroom, with a minimum of seven extra inches of leg-stretching space.... Read More

Among the three U.S.-based public company online travel agencies -- Expedia, Priceline and Orbitz Worldwide -- Jake Fuller sees Expedia and Orbitz closing the gap a bit on a global basis with "outperformer" Priceline in 2010.... Read More

Another wonderful flight tracking (coffee break/time-waster) site has emerged courtesy of RadarVirtuel.... Read More

A Financial Times and Harris Interactive online poll finds that the majority of Americans, Brits, Italians, French and Germans would bring on body scanners with X-rays in airports, while Spaniards and Chinese are less enthusiastic.... Read More

Toronto-based PlanetEye has joined forces with TripTelevision to develop a system providing HD-quality video that can be connected to specific destination content and mapping.... Read More

Those hoping a strategic review by the BBC of core services and involvement in other commercial services will see the end of its interest in Lonely Planet will be disappointed.... Read More

BootsnAll is the latest in a growing number of travel content sites attempting to find ways to reward hard-up or aspiring travel writers around the world.... Read More

The most recent job briefs, including appointments, recruitment initiatives, moves and restructures published here. Latest: Yatra.... Read More

Family travel website WeJustGotBack launched a consulting unit to advise DMOs, CVBs, hotels and tour operators on how to market more effectively to parents and kids on websites and in e-mail communications.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending February 27 2010.... Read More

Continuing its focus on corporate travel, TripIt created more than a 1,000 company groups and gave TripIt users the option to join them so they can see their cubemates' travel plans.... Read More

If you work for a hotel or cruise line and you are attending the Pest Management Canada 2010 conference in Ottawa starting on Thursday, chances are you won't be tweeting too much about it.... Read More

TLabs focus on startups featuring Canada-based TripSourcing.... Read More

Monster, Workopolis, The Ladders, Dice, CareerBuilder, the list goes on and on - and if you have posted your resume on any of these employment sites, you will most certainly get lost in the shuffle.... Read More

Mobile itinerary-management company WorldMate shook up its executive ranks and is making a push for cobranded deals and advertising agreements with airlines, hotels and GDSs, as well as white-label pacts with smartphone manufacturers.... Read More