Plenty of switching around amongst the leading UK travel sites with Teletext Holidays making a return to the top ten, Travelzoo climbing and Skyscanner dropping out.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring France-based hotel mobile application booking engine BookingBrick.... Read More

A well-known story for hotels: powerful middlemen that dominate the market and put pressure on the property managers to lower prices and increase the commission.... Read More

Lufthansa is testing the Amadeus Affinity Shopper vacation-inspiration-oriented flight search tool on an eighth country site, Lufthansa Russia, and plans to deploy it there before the end of 2011.... Read More

Orbitz introduced Orbitz Hotels for the iPad, sticking with the high-margin hotel business for its first mobile implementation on a tablet.... Read More

Almost 12 months to the day, Google finally announced what many had been anticipating for years: the search giant was getting into travel in a major way.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Germany-based tour and activity marketplace Tripodo.... Read More

Interesting ramping up of metasearch services from TripAdvisor today with the addition of European rail services to its existing flight metasearch engine.... Read More

Some exposure you just can't buy - so European startup TripWolf must be full of cheer this week after being selected as app-of-choice for a new Deutsche Telekom TV ad.... Read More

The owners of TravelPost launched Trover, an iPhone-based travel social network that aims to "become your highly personalized guide to the world."... Read More

Now that year-long negotiations with the Vacation Rental Managers Association have collapsed, Pegasus Solutions says it is continuing to develop a vacation rental switch and will bring it to market on its own.... Read More

It is impossible to attend a conference these days without an in-depth session (or two) on best practices for social media marketing in travel.... Read More

As we ponder the mysteries of the iPad and mobile experience on the web, are we seeing a fundamental shift in user behaviour?... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel property exchange service Skyra.... Read More

Major new emphasis from the tourism authorities in New Zealand with a radical repositioning of its web presence to focus on user generated content and destination activities.... Read More