Ryanair has seen the gap between it and market leader EasyJet increase in the list of leading airline websites in the UK.... Read More

Big investment coming in to the vacation rental market once again with UK-based HouseTrip raising $40 million in Series C funding from Accel Partners.... Read More

About 16 million people have listened to Adele's theme song for Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie. VisitBritain hopes to hang on to the tuxedo coattails of 007's popularity by launching its own spy-themed contest.... Read More

Visit Japan, also known as the Japan Toursim Agency, has capitalized on this worldwide obsession in a digitally native way - a Hello Kitty iPhone app. Yes, Hello Kitty is now available for your next visit to Japan!... Read More

Kayak, Facebook, Allegiant, Air France, Qatar Airways, and Oneworld all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 8 October.... Read More

By selling the option to "lock in" cheap fares," startup Bitbend brings Air France's and Continental's fare locking concept to all the major US airlines.... Read More

WestJet has overtaken its arch rival Air Canada at the top of the list of leading travel websites in Canada.... Read More

Social seating start-up SeatID ran a survey in August and September on travellers' attitudes to finding a buddy to sit next to while you fly... Read More

The War of the Maps (Worlds? Ha!) between Apple and Google is that the struggle is not about immediate revenue, it is about ownership of geo-behavioral data and overall strategic positioning... Read More

The search marketing pros at Ayima have been monitoring the state of SEO in the US/UK travel industry over the past year - and it ain't pretty for the legacy brands.... Read More

Travel Intelligence and Perfect Escapes parent Travesse has been put into administration after it was unable to pay its creditors... Read More

People have predicted the slow demise of business travel for decades, primarily because it has always been assumed that technology would replace the need for it.... Read More

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

Online gaming and cruise trips - you couldn't make it up?! Well, a team at Embark.at did for its entry in the recent THack @ SFO in San Francisco.... Read More

A perfect storm, some might suggest, has hit the travel industry in recent years - one driven by economic challenges, rapid rise of personal technology and impact of social media.... Read More