Most popular and most commented last week - and what's coming up next...... Read More

Orbitz has just launched their Android app, and is using a this-weekend-only approach to promoting the latest offering.... Read More

One hospitality industry veteran has taken to the Web to publicly gripe about the OTA situation on French travel industry website Hospitality-On.... Read More

Total spend via mobiles using near-field communication (NFC) is to rise more than twenty-fold from $4bn this year to $100bn in 2016 according to forecasts from ABI Research.... Read More

CasaHop is a home exchange platform which aims to put like-minded people in touch with each other via their social graph.... Read More

Jetsetter, TripAdvisor, Triposo, Fairmont Hotels, and India4GapYear all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 19 October.... Read More

In a wide-ranging interview, Terry Jones, founder and former CEO of Travelocity and current chairman of the board at Kayak, new book ON Innovation, Turning on Innovation in Your Culture, Teams and Organization.... Read More

Metaio is releasing platform-independent, augmented reality production software that unifies all of its software in a language that it calls AREL (AR Experience Language). A video demonstrates the results.... Read More

The industry reacts to a vote by IATA airlines today to adopt new open standards of distribution of air tickets and ancillaries through travel agents.... Read More

Webtrends, Emirates, Netbooster, Gmail, Bescover, RateGain, Trippy, Yahoo, and Airberlin all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 18 October.... Read More

The current mobile conundrum is that there is no “one size fits all” solution.... Read More

Going viral on the Internet today is an amusing story in which Lowcostholidays stuck a little dagger in Thomas Cook UK and earned a lot of goodwill.... Read More

With the advent of smart phones and social media, we are seeing another major shift in hotel-guest relations so big that even compensation packages are being built around the ability of hotels to adapt.... Read More

Mobile event app developer QuickMobile has announced an additional round of funding, with a $3.3 million infusion from BDC IT Venture Fund. Its original invesors, various angels and Canadian credit un... Read More

Travel social network Travellution has gained a further Euro 300,000 in funding and moved its office to Paris Incubateurs.... Read More