A PBS news report last evening on the massive and horrible BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico summed up the frustration:... Read More

AT&T turned New York's Times Square into a Wi-Fi hotzone for customers using Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones -- including the iPhone -- as well as laptops, netbooks and assorted devices.... Read More

Priceline extended a guarantee on hotel bookings usings its Name Your Own Price service.... Read More

Surf over to the New Yorker Boutique Hotel in Miami website and at the bottom of the homepage you'll see a link to its Oil Spill Special.... Read More

Traveltainment was one of the first travel companies to take the Microsoft Surface table seriously in 2009 when it committed to developing an interface for offline travel agents.... Read More

Challenge 3 - Map your desired positioning on the Inspiration Footprint Matrix.... Read More

There's clearly no end to Travelocity mascot Roaming Gnome's enthusiasm for social media, this week trying location service FourSquare after its play on Chatroulette.... Read More

Barry Diller addressed the prestigious World Travel & Tourism Summit in Beijing, expressing thoughts on why Google won't succeed in travel, why companies should jump into mobile with both feet, and why foreign companies fail in China.... Read More

Continental Airlines reopened Terminal C at Houston's Bush International Airport, expanding its ticketing and check-in area to more than 57,000 square feet and adding 56 self-service kiosks to the mix.... Read More

TripAdvisor is offering free-advertising listings for three months to hotels, B&Bs, inns and vacation rental properties along the coastal region affected by the Gulf oil spill.... Read More

Hogg Robinson Group witnessed a substantial increase in online adoption, with its lower transaction fees, in North America in the past year, and the travel management company says it took several steps to cope with this change in business mix.... Read More

Challenge 2 - Wear the Bow Tie backwards... Read More

MyCityWay, which creates location-based city apps, became the first company to get seed money from an official Silicon Alley investment fund.... Read More

FlightPortal, a new web management system for tracking the environmental impact of corporate travel, launches this week, backed by some heavyweights of the sector... Read More

Air transport technology provider SITA has unveiled a new global control and command structure, concentrated in two locations in Canada and Singapore.... Read More