Economy fretting aside, the United States saw a historic uptick in consumer travel spending, reaching $100 billion for the first time in 2012.... Read More

Delta and Starwood recently announced a watershed moment in the loyalty program space: a joint loyalty program that will provide perks across brands, aptly called Crossover Rewards. What does it mean for the future of loyalty programs?... Read More

The carrier parlayed its recent major news into big gains in social media followership across platforms, including a 48% jump in subscribers on YouTube.... Read More

Google's suite of web and mobile-based services are continuing their penetration into travel industry. But with the launch of Glass, Google's most hi-tech product yet, the ramifications for the sector are huge.... Read More

So we've had KLM Surprise at airports, where the Dutch airline doorstepped customers to give them a gift after mining their social media activity.... Read More

Frequently our choice whether to include destinations and products we feature within city fact files or regional guides rests on the existence of good quality stock footage.... Read More

A veritable cottage industry has formed in recent years around travel hacking, mostly focusing on how to accumulate as many miles as possible for airline reward redemption.... Read More

As we all know, the airline industry today is extremely interested in two major trends – Big Data and ancillary revenue.... Read More

IHG and Kempinski are moving services from servers to the off-size Internet based platforms—while IHG is launching a priority rewards product via mobile.... Read More

In the past few days, a YouTube video made by a person claiming to be an Air India pilot has been surfacing over social media channels.... Read More

Traditionally, restaurants had their menus in paper/booklet form. In the early mobile revolution from 2004 to 2008, some restaurants gave waiters a mobile with a custom app loaded in it for taking orders from customers.... Read More

Privacy is a hot-button issue these days - consumers are increasingly uncomfortable with the level of access the world has to their information, and those accessing said information are eager to keep the info flow coming.... Read More

The ongoing battle between Canada's leading pair of airlines took a swing in WestJet's favour in January after it overtook Air Canada to take pole position.... Read More

Iberostar, Hotelbeds, Egencia, Wego, eRevMax, GetYourGuide, Etihad- Jet Airways, JetBlue, SITA, mobile in China, Viator, TradeDoubler, 3rd Planet, Amazon Redshift, Southwest Airlines, Sweetbeam and Center Parcs all get a mention in our roundup of news and hot topics on Wednesday February 20... Read More

Booking engines within Facebook fan pages for hotels were once considered revolutionary, but it appears to be a growing trend for many property owners.... Read More