Expedia has acquired a further 8% in China-based online travel agency eLong for US$72.4 million... Read More

In the U.S., if you are getting ready for or are already embroiled in the Thanksgiving travel crush, or if you are abroad and just find yourself elbow-to-elbow with similarly harried travelers in an airport, take a moment to consider a utopian vision of the travel experience in a not-too-distant future.... Read More

Travelocity Global CEO Carl Sparks says Travelocity and Lastminute.com aren't getting their "fair share" and he's retooling the company's technology to turn things around.... Read More

Decolar is now just 0.25% market share ahead of rival Hotel Urbano, as the gap narrows considerably in the list of top travel websites in Brazil.... Read More

HotelTonight, the same-day, mobile hotel-booking service, picked up $9 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures.... Read More

The first installment of this series showed how social media and search engine optimization aligned to create an environment that rewards hotels with high customer ratings.... Read More

Short-term rental specialist HouseTrip is attracting more investment, this time a record $16.9 million from its existing backer Index Ventures and Balderton Capital.... Read More

A bitter row between airfare shopping technology startups Vayant and Everbread, which ended up in the courts, is over - with a settlement agreed last week.... Read More

The top three online travel agencies in India - MakeMyTrip, Yatra and Cleartrip - have secured over two-thirds of the web audience in the country.... Read More

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Vayant is stepping up its attempts to muscle in on the world of airfare shopping technology with a major enhancement to the core service.... Read More

With a $25 billion market cap and counting, how does Priceline do it?... Read More

When you get Barney Harford going about his pet project, turning around Orbitz Worldwide, he talks so fast that he seems to forget that sentences have periods on the end for a reason.... Read More

Mobile Travel Technologies has unleashed the latest version of its M2B platform with claims that it will solve many of the frustrations travel companies currently face with mobile.... Read More

Travel agents could boost airline ancillary revenue threefold via technology being integrated by the global distribution systems and other airline system suppliers... Read More