Dallas-based American Airlines has rolled out a new pricing structure in a tweaked booking path on their direct booking website aa.com.... Read More

Keeping it in the family but a change at the top as Qantas and Jetstar trade places to lead the list of most popular airline websites in Australia.... Read More

One area were travel agents were traditionally strong in spite of the emergence of online travel, was in cruise bookings. Yet, a recent report suggests that travel agents are losing the battle on the cruise front.... Read More

Under-the-radar company Canadian company Demeure has added fresh tools to its an online directory for vacation property owners, travelers, and property managers, which generates most of its income from subscription access.... Read More

Booking.com, Carpooling, BlockAvenue, Starwood Hotels, Boingo, Hotelbeds, all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 12 December.... Read More

For years now hotel marketers have claimed that search engines are on the way out as a viable marketing and distribution channel in hospitality.... Read More

The travel industry Christmas shopping spree continues this week with Webjet paying $25 million to Travelocity to acquire its Zuji online travel agency.... Read More

I was catching up on RSS today and read a piece by Alex Bainbridge on Tnooz about the Top Eight Travel Industry Battles.... Read More

Booking.com is in danger of losing its coveted prime position at the top of the leading travel websites in Brazil to user review giant TripAdvisor.... Read More

Luxury destination club Inspirato sent Harris Interactive on a pre-holiday polling binge to determine which cities in North America were planning to spend the most amount of money on their annual holiday escape.... Read More

Back in the golden age of travel, when everyone dressed up to fly (or at least showered and shaved) and there was legroom in coach, frequent travelers used travel agencies to book travel. Now, they have apps.... Read More

What does $300 million buy you these days (apart from a minority stake in Virgin Atlantic)? It gets you Barry Diller's shares and voting control of TripAdvisor.... Read More

Mooted seriously for a few weeks and predicted tactically by many for years, Delta and Virgin Atlantic have agreed a major joint venture in a bid to put pressure on their transatlantic rivals.... Read More

Okay, not easy at all given that Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant are two of the hottest (and probably most expensive) sporting properties on the planet right now.... Read More

Today HotelTonight launches in Mexico and Europe, while yesterday same-day hotel booking iPhone app LastRoom officially debuted.... Read More