Plenty of travel smartphone applications emerging these days, but not that many that promote strip poker and allow the creation of travel playlists as well as booking a hotel.... Read More

While some industry folk in the western hemisphere gasp at levels of money being thrown into the likes of Wimdu and Airbnb, over in China there are even bigger sums in play.... Read More

While Nascar fans were enjoying the Coke Zero 400 Weekend at Dayt0na International Speedway over the holiday weekend, several hundred fans were piloting the new Daytona International Speedway mobile app.... Read More

Fundamental change in the online travel agency landscape in Europe this week following the completion of the merger of eDreams with GoVoyages and the addition of Opodo to the group.... Read More

What were the best articles on Tnooz this week?... Read More

The three leading low cost carriers in India - Indigo, Jet Airways and SpiceJet - have secured a 43% share of visits to airline websites in the country.... Read More

Many of the predictions at the beginning of 2011 concentrated on three key issues affecting the travel industry - merchandising, growth of social commerce and rapid developments in mobile.... Read More

Social travel sites appear to launch every day - some get acquired by Google, some are mobile efforts in Asia, others are just riding the crest of the white hot social travel wave.... Read More

Changes at the top of the Brazilian travel website charts with Viajanet dropping down to third place from second, swapping places with Hotel Urbano.... Read More

I have always said that mobile is a perfectly matched technology for travel as both are in use when you’re not at home.... Read More

Hoteliers appear to be coming round to the world of mobile and yet another new channel to manage - 66% believe it is now important to offer bookings via a handset.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based tour and activity platform Azurever.... 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 Europe from June to August 2011.... Read More

Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during June 2011 - all here in one easy read.... Read More

Hotel auction site Off & Away got into the private sales arena and if you use a Facebook widget to "like" the property when previewing a private sale, you get 24 hours' early access.... Read More