Suddenly, it's all about local -- news about your city, deals from your area and the best vacations from your airport.... Read More

The mystery surrounding the startup fronted by former-Expedia chief executive and president Rich Barton is starting to unravel with more old pals joining the team and a funding round secured.... Read More

TLabs focus on startups featuring FlightCaster from San Francisco.... Read More

Two corporate meetings' technology companies, HotelPlanner.com and StarCite, rolled out new tools for meeting planners and hotels, respectively.... Read More

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Quite a furore in the travel affiliate marketing sector this week when a travel firm was exposed for charging different prices to consumers depending on how they arrived on the site.... Read More

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BookIt.com, an online travel agency based in Panama CityBeach, Fla., is engaged in its first national TV advertising campaign.... Read More

With more than 99% of sales through the Airlines Reporting Corp. involving e-tickets, the air transaction clearinghouse eliminated the requirement that travel agencies return their unused ticket stock.... Read More

European Expedia sites have had their widely expected makeover today as the US-led rebranding effort gathers pace around the world.... Read More

In what will be a landmark move in the UK, tourism authorities are set to shake up the hotel rating system by combining the existing star system with user generated content.... Read More

Responsys released a survey of 150 email marketing pros and found that although 53% are promoting their brands through social media, some 48% of the marketers are fairly clueless as to which channels -- social media, mobile, email or Web channels -- produce optimum results.... Read More

Virgin America revealed network expansion plans today, a development that provides more opportunities for the airline's passengers to document the highs and lows of their customer experiences through social networks because all of the airline's 28 Airbus A320 aircraft are equipped with Wi-Fi.... Read More

Soon we will no longer need to talk to one another to find out how we are, where we are and what we are doing.... Read More

What add-on services do customers in the leisure and business travel market really want?... Read More