WorldMate, which keys in on business travelers with its itinerary management service, claims it has trumped competitor TripIt's LinkedIn capabilities with the launch of a WorldMate Blackberry app that enables users to find nearby LinkedIn connections or those in other cities.... Read More

Destination activities and tours agency Viator is to open four new country sites in Nothern Europe as part of its ongoing expansion programme.... Read More

American Airlines in May will begin to charge coach passengers $8 for a pillow and blanket set, according to USA Today.... Read More

The debut Super Bowl ad for the US Super Bowl last night has won the praise of a marketing monitoring firm.... Read More

GuestCentric Systems, finding that some prospective clients were unwilling to pay fixed monthly costs for its hotel-booking engine, implemented a new revenue-share pricing system.... Read More

GAP Adventures is the latest in what is becoming an increasingly long line of travel companies to turn to online competitions to raise their profile.... Read More

Deals publisher Travelzoo is understandably showing off some data this week that illustrates its position at the top of a chart of travel firms who receive traffic from user emails.... Read More

Love is in the air at WAYN as it appears the travel social network is planning to unveil a dating service on St Valentine's Day.... Read More

Hotelopia and Hotel Reservation Service have joined the HotelsCombined metasearch engine roster of European brands spearheading its growth across the continent.... Read More

All of the excitement leading up to tonight's Super Bowl has little to do with the gridiron and much to do with the advertisements. Thus, John Battelle's Searchblog reports that Google will break longstanding tradition and run a TV advertisement during tonight's Super Bowl.... Read More

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 31 January to Saturday 6 February 2010.... Read More

John Peters, CEO of under-pressure agent-lead service Tripology, has broken his silence after a difficult week for the New York-based company.... Read More

There is so much focus on Google and Apple in the mobile phone market that it may come as a surprise to hear that Yahoo is the tech firm knocking on the door of the patent office.... Read More

While much of the attention in JetBlue's cutover to the SabreSonic CSS as the airline's reservations system provider has focused on new functionalities, Navitaire, the company that JetBlue largely discarded after a decade-old relationship, feels there are misperceptions about its capabilities and believes that the "true winner" in the conversion likely will be Sabre -- and not necessarily JetBlue.... Read More

Sales of domains Fly.com, Russia.com, America.com and Brazil.com were among the top ten highest valued URLs in 2009 as travel and geography-related sites showed a rise in popularity with buyers.... Read More