TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Fortnighter, a platform to create customised travel itineraries produced by travel writers.... Read More

Early signs of the impact on search trends in Australia following the grounding of aircraft belonging to Tiger Airways.... Read More

Sudden leap ahead for Expedia in New Zealand after overtaking rival WebJet to take spot by almost a 1.5% share of the agency category of top websites.... Read More

Seldom does a company issue a press release and then refuse all comment about it, but this was the case today with Priceline's announcement that it had reached a milestone in its 6-month-old deployment of American Airlines Direct Connect.... Read More

Just for fun and to gain more participation, Gogobot is introducing gaming -- badges, in particular -- to its social travel website.... Read More

Consumers can't get enough of social media, it appears - with almost two-thirds admitting they spend at least two hours every trip sneaking away for a bit of Facebook action.... Read More

Six changes amongst the top ten US travel websites this week, with the most notable being Yahoo Travel's move into third place ahead of Orbitz.... Read More

If you are traveling in the Paris Metro or riding the bus and rails in New York City and you don't have a clue where to transfer or stop to check out that art museum or dive bar, Google Maps 5.7 for Android may now become your tour guide.... Read More

The new Lufthansa for iPad app is available globally in English or German and it caters to people looking for a little travel inspiration and also to the practically minded traveler.... Read More

US-based LivingSocial, one of the deal sites-of-the-moment alongside Groupon, launched its travel-oriented vertical LivingSocial Escapes in December 2010.... Read More

Plenty of switching around amongst the leading UK travel sites with Teletext Holidays making a return to the top ten, Travelzoo climbing and Skyscanner dropping out.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based hotel mobile application booking engine BookingBrick.... Read More

A well-known story for hotels: powerful middlemen that dominate the market and put pressure on the property managers to lower prices and increase the commission.... Read More

Lufthansa is testing the Amadeus Affinity Shopper vacation-inspiration-oriented flight search tool on an eighth country site, Lufthansa Russia, and plans to deploy it there before the end of 2011.... Read More

Orbitz introduced Orbitz Hotels for the iPad, sticking with the high-margin hotel business for its first mobile implementation on a tablet.... Read More