The Priceline Hotel Negotiator, Kayak and Travelocity mobile apps may be among the top 10 free travel apps in Apple's Apps Store, but they all lack one feature that's available in Concur's mobile app -- the ability to book Southwest Airlines.... Read More

Accommodation rental specialist giant HomeAway has moved quickly to deny suggestions that it will list on the public markets.... Read More

As it pledged to do two months ago, Carnival Cruise Lines revamped its first social-media policy, removing previous restrictions on travel-agent partners' use of CCL trademarks in tweets, status updates and blog posts.... Read More

In a move likely to reignite the ongoing debate about Google's influence over the travel industry, engineers have the sector back on their radars as they launch another AdWords Comparison Ads trial.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the Hong Kong region for the week ending February 20 2010.... Read More

Expedia Inc. President and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made a super prediction today: He expects vacation-rental leader HomeAway, which ran a 30-second TV advertisement during the Super Bowl, to become a public company in 2010 or 2011.... Read More

Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd thinks metasearch's best days are behind it, argues that Jetsetter's private, members-only hotel sales will forever remain a niche endeavor, and rules out relaunching a Name-Your-Own Price offering in the U.K. Other than that -- and a few other subjects -- Boyd had little to say at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2010 in San Francisco today.... Read More

So how did Carnival Cruise Lines and Travelocity manage to beef up the ranks of unique visitors to their websites in January?... Read More

Tnooz is this week unveiling TLabs, a new channel on the site dedicated to the little guy, the bedroom-coder or the fledgling business eager to get in front its peers.... Read More

U.S. airlines may have difficulties making fare increases stick, but Carnival Cruise Lines, citing "record wave season bookings," revealed it will raise prices "across-the board," effective March 22.... Read More

Travel companies have been pounding away at deal-oriented newsletters in the past couple of years, and Expedia's Hotwire unit recently revealed that its Hotwire travel-ticker newsletter has signed on 11 million subscribers.... Read More

MySkyStatus, a system developed by Lufthansa to allow passengers to send status updates to their social networks in-flight, has doubled the number of messages sent out in the space of a month.... Read More

Amazing, Truly, Uniquely, WOW, even Bloody – you name it, every adjective has been thrown at destination branding.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending February 20 2010.... Read More

Breaking new ground, Expedia launched a new iPhone app, TripAssist, which enables users to track itineraries booked on Travelocity, Opodo or Agoda -- any travel website, actually -- in addition to those booked in-house on Expedia.... Read More