Tripping, a social travel site connecting local hosts with travelers, received seed funding to fuel global expansion and marketing, the company says.... Read More

Groupon revamped its privacy policy and it will provide a treasure trove of personal information for Expedia.... Read More

TripAdvisor is increasing its social-travel efforts with today's announcement that it acquired Where I've Been.... Read More

Canada's two leading airline websites - AirCanada and WestJet - have extended their lead over other airlines in the top ten, securing 57% of the total category.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based Who'sMyGuide, a platform to find and contact local travel guides anywhere in the world.... Read More

Ebookers has made a sudden reappearance in the leading travel sites in the UK, a first for the online agency for almost two years.... Read More

IWannaGoThere is a UK-based trip planning and destination guide service, first featured on Tnooz in March 2010. What happened in the intervening 12 months?... Read More

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 Australia-New Zealand from July to September.... Read More

Indian online travel agency Yatra has narrowed the gap on its rival MakeMyTrip and extended its lead over third placed Cleartrip to 5% of the market.... Read More

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Brazilian airlines GOL and TAM have managed to grab more than half of the airline website market share in the country.... Read More

Flash sales site LivingSocial believes group buying works for the travel industry so you can expect more along those lines considering that it is lining up bankers to execute what could be a $1 billion IPO.... Read More

This is the regular Tnooz roundup of news from around the travel industry, all with a travel-tech, digital twist -- Friday 8 July 2011. Today it's featuring Premier Inn, TripAdvisor, American Airlines, LowCostVillas, ReviewPro and Pitchup.... Read More

Major online travel agencies are seeking to reverse a federal court's public disclosure of how they calculate their service fees when selling hotel rooms using the merchant model.... Read More

Major online travel agencies, including Expedia, Priceline, Travelocity and Orbitz, lost a class-action lawsuit by 173 cities in Texas and could owe them more than $20 million in hotel occupancy taxes.... Read More