In 2015, there may not be a more interesting name to watch than Google.... Read More

General Motors has released an update to OnStar, its in-vehicle assistance system, that allows subscribers to book hotels directly with an agent. The subscription service, which is available across... Read More

Three years in business was three years too long for OutTrippin, a trip planning startup which has closed its doors amid woes over investment and scaling. The idea for the business, which was creat... Read More

I was recently thinking (as a hypothetical exercise) about how families choose what day tours or activities to book whilst in a destination. How would you handle it when you have children of differ... Read More

From opinion pieces on the advantages of online travel agencies to the sale of Viator to TripAdvisor, it's been a varied year on Tnooz. We pride ourselves on having the latest news coverage to offe... Read More

Fred Wilson, investor in a string of social media brands, says "the social media phase of the internet ended" in 2014.... Read More

On several fronts, 2014 was a particularly eventful year for China’s technology sector. While a handful of domestic players grabbed headlines with blockbuster share offerings, major acquisitions or soaring valuations, some multinational firms encountered major obstacles in their efforts to expand in the vast but increasingly challenging market.Chief among 2014’s Chinese tech highlights was e-commerce giant Alibaba’s record initial public offering in New York that raised $25 billion and catapulted it onto the international stage.... Read More

Vacation rental business isn’t new in the travel and tourism sector, you can read plenty of stories about how travellers used to send paper cheques and finalize rental paper contracts for their trips... Read More

About 1,500 people have donated funds to a 22-year-old entrepreneur, who is crowdfunding a legal defense fund in response to a lawsuit by United and Orbitz against himself and his cheap airfare websit... Read More

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for December 2014. Monday 29 December 2014: Virgin Hotels offers free wifi Virgin Hotels,... Read More

In case you missed it, Amazon, possibly the biggest ecommerce website in the world, has entered into the hotel distribution game. It has recently started contracting hotels in the US. Are we looking a... Read More

When you think of it, it might seem like an obvious question: what motivates people to travel on holiday and what are they looking to gain from the experience? And yet, historically there has been... Read More

Forty percent. The number was embedded in an Expedia-Comscore workshop presented at PhocusWright, alongside lots of other data, and it got lost in the maelstrom. No one noticed. But it was right... Read More

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for December 2014. Monday 29 December 2014: Ryanair launches US site Budget carrier Rya... Read More

Another example of how disruptive the Chinese OTAs are becoming is that big news breaks on Xmas Day, with Qunar announcing its biggest ever investment, taking a stake in China's offline travel agency... Read More