There's much more to readying an advertisement for Sunday night's Super Bowl than striking the optimum creative and branding themes: HomeAway, apparently the lone travel dot-com advertiser this year, invested some $1 million in new hardware to handle an anticipated spike in website traffic, the company says.... Read More

Two leading U.S. travel industry groups, the American Hotel & Lodging Association and the Interactive Travel Services Association, are discussing terms for a sitdown over their bitter clash about ITSA's push for federal legislation that would limit online travel agencies' exposure to local hotel-occupancy taxes.... Read More

Holiday rental giant HomeAway has quadrupled its PR budget in the UK for 2010 to help engineer an initiative to send two bloggers around the world for 12 months.... Read More

An in-depth report into online fraud and how companies are dealing with such activity also claims 78% of consumers will never make a booking on their phone.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending January 30 2010.... Read More

A Facebook poll to find which US state can get the most 'fans' might be interesting in the short term but over time it is probably - and unfortunately - utterly meaningless.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the UK for the week ending January 30 2010.... Read More

Amadeus and Concur, vendors of competing corporate self-booking tools, entered into a global strategic partnership which finds Amadeus lending a third-party -- in this case, a rival turned ally -- some of Amadeus' close-to-the vest distribution technology for the first time.... Read More

The who's who of the Travel Technology Europe event in London on 9 and 10 February.... Read More

A California Superior Court in Los Angeles today set aside a hearing officer's decision in Anaheim, Calif., in 2009 that would have forced Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz and friends to shell out $21.3 million in hotel taxes tied to their practice of the merchant model.... Read More

European budget airline FlyBe is struggling to maintain its online presence after a series of problems over the past few days.... Read More

Two U.S. airlines are testing mobile apps that would deliver seat upgrades, lounge passes, check-ins and/or priority boarding through a new partnership between Farelogix and Mobiata, officials say.... Read More

Travelport is celebrating what it calls "a huge win" after securing exclusive rights to connect Thomas Cook offline retail travel agencies to airline data via the Galileo GDS - but who is the loser?... Read More

Way back when – the Internet was new and DOS titles were giving way to CD-ROMs and Windows 95 based software (not apps as we now call most of them) – there were a number of staple products.... Read More

Travel Rants editor Darren Cronian has switched from once being a thorn in the side of the travel industry to launching his own hyperlocal content product for tourists.... Read More