Expedia will be looking nervously over its shoulder this month after Webjet came within a whisker of stealing top spot in the list of leading travel sites in New Zealand in September.... Read More

What constitutes a successful social media campaign? Indeed, when is something that PRs and marketing types claim is "viral" ACTUALLY viral?... Read More

When reputation management firm Kwikchex went public with its legal threat to TripAdvisor two years ago, most probably dismissed the notion as nonsense... Read More

Nice win for HRS as it announces it will be the first - and initially exclusive - provider of technology to allow iPhone users to manage their hotel reservations on the new Passbook service.... Read More

Oh those precious corporate travellers with their gripes about business lounges being full of normal folk these days and the wine not chilled enough when they turn left on entering an aircraft.... Read More

Perhaps later than some would have expected, but half of consumers reckon by 2025 they will be paying for goods and services using a thumb print.... Read More

Last minute hotel deals continue to explode in popularity, with luxury travel bookers Jetsetter throwing their high-end hoteliers into the mix.... Read More

Market leader Expedia and second spot holder Priceline both lost ground in the list of leading travel websites in the US in September.... Read More

When the CEO of Kayak told CNBC recently that Google Flight Search was "an inferior product" to his own service, some might have considered it typical Steve Hafner posturing.... Read More

Ryanair has seen the gap between it and market leader EasyJet increase in the list of leading airline websites in the UK.... Read More

Big investment coming in to the vacation rental market once again with UK-based HouseTrip raising $40 million in Series C funding from Accel Partners.... Read More

About 16 million people have listened to Adele's theme song for Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie. VisitBritain hopes to hang on to the tuxedo coattails of 007's popularity by launching its own spy-themed contest.... Read More

Visit Japan, also known as the Japan Toursim Agency, has capitalized on this worldwide obsession in a digitally native way - a Hello Kitty iPhone app. Yes, Hello Kitty is now available for your next visit to Japan!... Read More

Kayak, Facebook, Allegiant, Air France, Qatar Airways, and Oneworld all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 8 October.... Read More

By selling the option to "lock in" cheap fares," startup Bitbend brings Air France's and Continental's fare locking concept to all the major US airlines.... Read More