If high-tech toilets and next gen vending machines were among those voted most cool in ANA's Is Japan Cool campaign last year, what will this latest phase bring?... Read More

SEO meets social sharing with Facebook's Graph Search. Hotels are the first sector in travel to be affected by the tool, which rolls out to all US users of Facebook today.... Read More

Some web toys are just too difficult to describe, or words do not do them enough justice - you just have to go and play with it.... 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 North America.... Read More

While 42% of stories shared by users in Facebook are related to travel experiences, Twitter is no exception when it comes to travel industry.... Read More

Wake up, wake up - in 2013, no company can expect to be taken seriously if it’s not on Facebook or Twitter.... Read More

For years, air travellers were happy to turn off phones and other devices, tuck into their peanuts, flick through the inflight magazine and watch a film.... Read More

Budget chain Premier Inn is to launch a new hotel brand - Hub by Premier - with an abundance of technology being pushed as one of its main selling points.... Read More

If reputations are like shadows, as US president Abraham Lincoln wrote, which country casts the longest one?... Read More

Détente, meeting of minds? I am going to hypothesize how the industry as a whole can get behind the ideas surrounding IATA's NDC and find some common ground for moving forward.... Read More

Every travel marketer wants a big and active social media audience. Who wouldn’t?... Read More

Ecompter lives to help hotels shout about their environmental initiatives in a factual way based around a C02 calculator... Read More

The commercialization of pretty much every avenue of life, both online and off, continues with this latest advertising innovation: using vibrations to create advertising that can only be hears when resting against a train window.... Read More

Microsoft, creator of the massive Touch interface a few years back, has released details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated.... Read More

A new entry into the travel startup scene is Nezasa, an online booking service dedicated to more bespoke travel experiences traditionally created and curated by full-service offline agencies.... Read More