Hotel revenue managers are dealing with a rapidly shifting landscape, especially when it comes to last-minute bookings via mobile applications like HotelTonight.... Read More

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

Travellers griping because Apple removed Google Maps from iOS 6, take heart: Google plans to make a standalone map app available by the end of 2012.... Read More

A new survey shows that Americans have a lot of vacation days to use up by the end of the year, providing a targeted marketing opportunity to savvy travel marketers across the world.... Read More

Embark, an app for figuring out how to use public transit in major cities, has enjoyed a huge spike in adoption by iPhone users since Apple debuted its operating system, iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps with a buggy mapping tool.... Read More

Another hack from the recent THack @ SFO event in San Francisco, this time featuring the product created by a development team from Travelport.... Read More

Google Maps is officially swimming with the fishes: Street View has partnered with the underwater experts at the Catlin Seaview Survey to create the world's first high-resolution, interactive panoramas of the world's most diverse ecosystem: the ocean.... Read More

Seven years after starting its aggressive expansion strategy outside of its US homeland, HomeAway is axing the brand of one of its first acquisitions, Holiday-Rentals.... Read More

Tourism New South Wales, Worldhotels, and Expedia US make our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 26 September.... Read More

Foodies or wine lovers will often design their latest jaunt based specifically on the best spots to eat and drink - but few travel sites reverse engineer the search process.... Read More

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Asia.... Read More

Bold and bold statement from British Airways as it starts trialling a new system that it claims will revolutionise how passengers will check-in for flights with the carrier.... Read More

One of the participants at last week's THack @ SFO was DataArt, pulling together APIs from Vayant, Travelport and LocalGuiding to create BendMyTrip.... Read More

Interesting data out of UK-based DealZippy after analysing a year's worth of deals from across a range of industries and platforms, showing how popular the channel remains in travel.... Read More

Anywayanyday.com, VRMA, Vayant, Inntopia, and TourWrist all make our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 25 September.... Read More