Click A Taxi, the taxi booking application, has received $1.5m in second round angel funding as it extends its service further across Europe.... Read More

United Airline's app and TripIt's app (across all versions) were the most used flying apps between August and October by American iPhone users, according to Onavo.... Read More

New British site The Hotel Guru curates top critics, such as Fiona Duncan of the UK's Sunday Telegraph Hotel Guru column, Mr and Mrs Smith, i-escape, tablethotels, the Good Hotel Guide, Sawdays, the Michelin Guide, and CN Traveller (UK).... Read More

Grinning from ear to ear, post-acquisition by Priceline, Kayak CEO and co-founder Steve Hafner still found time at the PhoCusWright Conference to tell everyone exactly what they already knew.... Read More

Ryanair, FlightStats, Kayak, Superfly, Vayama, Onefinestay, Cheap Tickets, Los Angeles Tourism, Jetpac, Facebook, Small Luxury Hotels of the World, all get mentioned in our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 15 November.... Read More

What a difference a year makes - at the 2011 PhoCusWright Conference in Florida, Google was reasonably bullish about its strategy for Google Flight Search.... Read More

More than half of TripAdvisor users say they won't book a hotel if it has no reviews according to research carried out for the company... Read More

More developments in Russian online travel with Yandex dropping a flight search box into its results pages for travellers searching using some of the most frequently used terms... Read More

Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing - even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago.... Read More

Next time you're hitting the road for a conference or exhibition here's a quirky Facebook application which helps users see where everyone has stayed... Read More

Passengers who click their fingers to get the staff's attention is the biggest gripe for a quarter of cabin crew. Who knew?... Read More

Scooping $250,000 from General Catalyst Partners is clearly a rather nice way for TourWrist to end its involvement in this year' Travel Innovation Summit at the PhoCusWright Conference.... Read More

Center Stage, the flagship event of the PhoCusWright Conference week, kicks off today and we are here to stream it, comment on it, capture the buzz around it.... Read More

BookingMarkets has developed a cloud-based property management system for small independent hotels.... Read More

The tool lets business travelers post hotel ratings that only their peers can see, and it provides travel managers a source of feedback exclusively on company-compliant properties near corporate offices.... Read More