One of the common problems I come across when doing outreach is bloggers replying but asking to be paid for the link.... Read More

A new startup called LobbyFriend is aiming to make a spontaneous social atmosphere de facto for hotels around the world through a hotel-specific "temporary social network."... Read More

Think all the love at in the travel division at Google is directed at the Flight Search product? Think again.... Read More

From Instant Street View to writing a message across an image, we've found some creative uses of Google Street View, the famous mapping function that gives 360-degree street-level imagery of locations worldwide.... Read More

Over the past 12 months, Pinterest has gone from being a relatively unknown website to being considered one of the most-engaging social networks around, and not without reason.... Read More

Clip the Trip is a crowd-sourced travel guide, currently covering 200 cities, that wants to help users find those out of the ordinary experiences often only known about by locals... Read More

Touristlink has created this infographic drawing together some of the numbers around how social media is influencing travel.... Read More

European online travel agency Lastminute.com is setting up camp in a well known techie hotel this week to test prototypes of new technology with guests.... Read More

Citizens of Sweden were thrust into the limelight this year when the national tourism authority gave them the chance to share their lives on its official Twitter profile.... Read More

Further good news for accommodation provider Agoda as it turns its modest lead over the likes of TripAdvisor into an increasingly dominant position.... Read More

Whether you're a journalist, blogger, or content creator for a travel site like a hotel or metasearch company, there are interesting lessons to be learned from the success of CNNGo and its current rebranding effort.... Read More

As a judge at the Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit last week, I had the honor of having 30 companies present their businesses to me and my fellow judges in eight-minute slots during one day.... Read More

Micros eCommerce, HGK, Rome2Rio, MapBox, Google+, Aviasales, Minube, Voyage Privé, TripFlick, Viator, Minube, GuestLogix, all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 20 November.... Read More

A quite interesting new way of hotel socializing is being implemented in the Grand City Hotels in Germany.... Read More

Suppliers continue to talk incessantly about these two strategies for revenue generation: merchandising and loyalty. Can they co-exist peacefully? Can third parties do either well? In short, not yet.... Read More