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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Amadeus and Concur, vendors of competing corporate self-booking tools, entered into a global strategic partnership which finds Amadeus lending a third-party -- in this case, a rival turned ally -- some of Amadeus' close-to-the vest distribution technology for the first time.... Read More

The who's who of the Travel Technology Europe event in London on 9 and 10 February.... Read More

A California Superior Court in Los Angeles today set aside a hearing officer's decision in Anaheim, Calif., in 2009 that would have forced Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz and friends to shell out $21.3 million in hotel taxes tied to their practice of the merchant model.... Read More

European budget airline FlyBe is struggling to maintain its online presence after a series of problems over the past few days.... Read More

Two U.S. airlines are testing mobile apps that would deliver seat upgrades, lounge passes, check-ins and/or priority boarding through a new partnership between Farelogix and Mobiata, officials say.... Read More