In planning and curating the programme for the first WITX-Women In Travel in Bangkok on April 27, I have personally learned a lot.... Read More

Vayable jumps to 200 destinations, Lonely Planet boosts offline apps, Emirates upgrades IFEs, HotelsCombined books with Ostrovok, Rocco opts for IDeaS... A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More

Either the late booking market for the summer is starting to kick in or there were frantic Easter trips being organised last week, but websites belonging to Thomas Cook and Thomson are looking up.... Read More

Universal Travel Group, which aims to be the dominant online travel company in China, is voluntarily delisting its stock from the New York Stock Exchange under fire.... Read More

BMW has created a high-tech method for booking a hotel room from the car and enabling guests to proceed right to their rooms, where they can unlock the doors with their car keys using near-field communications.... Read More

This isn't exactly of CIA-KGB proportions, but American Airlines has sued an ex-employee who publishes The Sky Steward blog and unidentified current airline employees who allegedly are conspiring with him.... Read More

TripAdvisor's stranglehold on the leading Canadian accommodation websites is so tight that its combined market share is great than the second, fourth and sixth places together.... Read More

EasyJet has replaced laterooms.com with booking.com as its exclusive hotel provider just weeks after Ryanair dropped the Priceline-owned accommodation specialist.... Read More

Holiday rental guests in Europe do not rate reviews from previous guests as having a big influence in their accommodation selection, unlike their hotel-dwelling fellow travellers.... Read More

A Virgin Atlantic plane bound for Orlando from the UK had to make an emergency landing today after reports of smoke in the cabin.... Read More

Brief residence at the top of the league of leading travel websites in France for SeLoger Vacances after it lost half its share of online traffic last week.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Hong Kong-based PrivePass, a member-only travel service targeting affluent consumers in the Asia-Pacific region.... Read More

Small moves, but second place ViajaNet has managed to gain some ground on market leader Decolar in the list of top ten travel websites in Brazil.... Read More

European carrier CityJet is rewarding shares via social media in addition to actual competition winners in its European Challenge Competition based on Quick Response (QR) codes... Read More

Technology folks all have great ideas for the next coolest thing. But for traditional companies, particularly those in travel, very few of these ideas see the light of day... Read More