Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Europe.... Read More

CityJet and Aloft Hotels are the latest travel brands to gravitate towards using music's emotional resonance as a tool to engage more deeply with their guests.... Read More

Prism, a New Mexico, US-based airline customer management system provider, was snapped up by Sabre today for an undisclosed fee.... Read More

A tour operator boss recently disclosed privately that mobile and its impact on the travel industry and consumer behaviour drives him "mad".... Read More

ExpertFlyer unveils alert app, TravelScream heads to China, Room Key and VFM Leonardo unite for site media, Vayant and Anixe in marketing partnership, SpottedByLocals goes Android... What else is going on in the world of travel tech...... Read More

A year ago, Google, Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo announced Schema.org: a taxonomy that would allow webpages to self-describe their content.... Read More

Cards In The Post is hoping to bring about a revival in travellers sending traditional postcards home by making it as easy as updating your social media profile... Read More

In October, the airline industry will propose new processes be adopted by the four mammoth Global Distribution Systems: Abacus, Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport.... Read More

A year on from securing a $5 million funding round, TravelShark CEO Sue Heilbronner has quit the company for a new role with a payment system provider.... Read More

American Airlines is back in Direct-Connect mode, after its programme to try and turn the airline distribution model on its head fell by the wayside as it faced bigger battles.... Read More

Today HipGeo, the trip journal app for iPhone and iPad, has added functionality that lets you record travel video and automatically geo-locate it on a map and timeline that can be shared with others.... Read More

Tnooz recently featured two somewhat academic articles about the economics of peer-to-peer travel marketplaces (Article #1, Article #2).... Read More

There has been a recent uptick in talk around increased costs associated with flying, and about the frustration consumers often face when dealing with airline ancillary fees like baggage and seat reservation fees.... Read More

Two years in the making, UK regulator The Office of Fair Trading has cited Expedia, Booking.com and InterContinental Hotels in its investigation into fixing hotel rates.... Read More

Trends from TripAdvisor's latest index shows increasing optimism over the economy from accommodation owners... Read More