Some statistics on who's winning and losing in the metasearch game so far in 2013. Hint: To the biggest marketing budget goes the spoils.... Read More

China Eastern airline selects NCR corporation's solution to rollout self-service kiosks.... Read More

Some of the visible trends are continuations from industry-wide trends, but also highlight just how specialized many travel suppliers are becoming in their pursuit of both market share and revenue growth.... Read More

You travel, share experiences on social networks, travel companies reward you for sharing and so on - sounds simple, step forward Freeppie.... Read More

Travel, the industry that pioneered loyalty programs, has eagerly embraced many of the newer data-driven marketing approaches and tools.... Read More

Direct booking doesn't just mean via your website, the telephone which continues to provide value, here's a little case study to demonstrate... Read More

Rome2Rio, one of just a handful of door-to-door travel search technology providers, appears to be persuading others that it's a shift in user behaviour worth capturing.... Read More

Assuming that promotion on Google Play or Apple’s App Store will take your app from beta to bestseller is… well, wishful thinking.... Read More

Yet another example of a travel brand finding life in social media a little tricky - India's IndiGo airlines retweeted a pornographic picture on its official Twitter page.... Read More

After the success of our first developer hackathon on the west coast of the US last September, THack is heading back to California!... Read More

How much can a search engine change in a year? If it’s Google, the answer is a lot. Best SEO practices suddenly can turn into web page death sentences if you’re not careful.... Read More

Google has issued an update to its Glass software so users are able to receive notifications for hotel bookings and reservations for restaurants and activities.... Read More

In an airport, check-ins go into Facebook and Foursquare, pictures invariably also go to Facebook and now Instagram, but what about the tweets? Indeed, what do travellers tweet about?... Read More

Over the past five years, eLong has been actively working towards its goal of becoming the number 1 player in China's hotel booking market.... Read More

I recognize that as a technologist it's easy for me to get caught up in the latest and greatest new technologies and apparent innovation sweeping across the industry.... Read More