Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during October 2012 - all here, in one easy read.... Read More

Rezgo, JTB, Illusions, Skyscanner, Virgin Australia, SITA, IATA, IHG, and Gouman Hotels all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 30 October.... Read More

The startup thinks it can help a hotel win back more than 10% of direct channel business by tapping into the popularity of social networks.... Read More

Ebookers has unveiled an update to its Explorer application initially launched last May... Read More

Interesting fusion of attractions, weather information and social media put together in the UK, aimed at making it easier to discover new things to do whilst keeping an eye on the dreaded British weather.... Read More

Data trends on price parity in hotel rates across some of the major cities in Europe, showing differences in parity on brand sites and online travel agencies, as well as number in overall parity.... Read More

That's annual growth of 11% in ancillary revenue for the airlines.... Read More

Such good intentions from Italian carrier Alitalia when launching what it now says would've been its most wide-ranging promo ever - but ended up licking its wounds following technical issues with a coupon.... Read More

Most popular and most commented last week - and what's coming up next...... Read More

A slab of Power to the People from InterContinental Hotels Group after it announced a new system to allow guests to leave online reviews against hotel properties.... Read More

What can a single developer pull together with a handful of APIs, a creative mind and a touch of tongue-in-check? Yes, it's the Traveling Gnome (not the roaming kind!).... Read More

Why do airlines oversell their flights? To "maximize" revenue, of course.... Read More

What's on the travel brain today? To find out, I recently represented Tnooz as a panelist at the Zino Society/Garvey Schubert Barer Travel & Technology conference in sunny Seattle, Washington.... Read More

Perhaps it was always going to end in tears. Well, tears being a Cease and Desist letter from US airline giant Southwest after it took exception to an engineer creating what some might be consider a handy service.... Read More

I’ll admit it: I’ve got an axe to grind. A big and rather shiny axe, one that has been resting against the cupboard called Lazy Travel Marketing for quite a while.... Read More