Social recommendation site Gogobot began offering hotel booking engines from Expedia, Kayak, hotels.com, Orbitz and Priceline.... Read More

Glenn Fogel of Priceline called those selling the idea of social media to the hotel industry as "charlatans" at the No Vacancy Conference in Sydney this week.... Read More

With Travelport Opinions seeking to bolster enrollment of travel agents' friends and colleagues and Sabre's Agentstream expanding into new markets, Amadeus is considering the establishment of a "collaboration community" in North America for Amadeus travel agents.... Read More

Mobile is changing the ground transportation industry -- limos and car services specifically -- and Limos.com is poised to get in on the action with its first mobile website and iPhone app.... Read More

Interesting move from aviation technology supplier SITA with news that it will be competing against ATPCO as a distributor of airline fares.... Read More

A lot has been written here on the mobile web versus mobile apps debate in travel, but the primary focus of this post is to better understand the size of the lost opportunity from having a mobile unfriendly website.... Read More

User review giant TripAdvisor has been forced to notify members of a major security breach after a "portion" of its 20 million-strong email list was stolen.... Read More

Open AXIS Group plans to convene a working group focusing on the alleged inadequacies of the travel agency desktop -- but the identities of at least some of the attendees may remain a secret.... Read More

Fun and rather curious project from metasearch site Skyscanner which has set itself a target of developing a new service and generating one million tweets within 24 hours.... Read More

A popular reverse action service from Air New Zealand is now a significant part of its fare distribution system following a major upgrade of the platform.... Read More

Domestic US airfares for the February 2011 were at their highest for five years - meaning the amount of sales have climbed again.... Read More

Now that Expedia has apps developer Mobiata in its portfolio, the online travel agency says it will soon launch Expedia Hotels for the iPhone and iPod touch.... Read More

This one had to hurt: Lawyers representing the District of Columbia, the U.S. capital, filed a lawsuit against major online travel agencies alleging millions of dollars in unpaid hotel taxes.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in Brazil for the week ending March 19 2011.... Read More

The travel industry is notoriously divided into very neat silos.... Read More