The widely-tipped Chinese OTA global land-grab of 2015 has begun, with news that Ctrip has bought a majority stake in UK-based content aggregator Travelfusion. No financial details are shared. T... Read More

A travel shopper landing on the GogoBot home page gets a breathtaking digital experience. NB: This is an analysis by Zubin Tavaria, director of marketing at Instart Logic. A full-screen of image... Read More

A legal battle between Chinese travel heavyweights Qunar and eLong looks like it will carry on well into 2015. Qunar has confirmed that it will contest a decision announced late December which alle... Read More

Gogo, the largest provider of inflight wifi to US airlines, has responded to accusations made this week that it has been issuing fake Google SSL certificates. On 2 January, a user of Gogo's infligh... Read More

As the debate drones on regarding commercial flights for unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States, an enterprising blogger couple has taken ten months to document their home country via drone.... Read More

In 2015, there may not be a more interesting name to watch than Google.... Read More

General Motors has released an update to OnStar, its in-vehicle assistance system, that allows subscribers to book hotels directly with an agent. The subscription service, which is available across... Read More

Three years in business was three years too long for OutTrippin, a trip planning startup which has closed its doors amid woes over investment and scaling. The idea for the business, which was creat... Read More

I was recently thinking (as a hypothetical exercise) about how families choose what day tours or activities to book whilst in a destination. How would you handle it when you have children of differ... Read More

From opinion pieces on the advantages of online travel agencies to the sale of Viator to TripAdvisor, it's been a varied year on Tnooz. We pride ourselves on having the latest news coverage to offe... Read More

Fred Wilson, investor in a string of social media brands, says "the social media phase of the internet ended" in 2014.... Read More

On several fronts, 2014 was a particularly eventful year for China’s technology sector. While a handful of domestic players grabbed headlines with blockbuster share offerings, major acquisitions or soaring valuations, some multinational firms encountered major obstacles in their efforts to expand in the vast but increasingly challenging market.Chief among 2014’s Chinese tech highlights was e-commerce giant Alibaba’s record initial public offering in New York that raised $25 billion and catapulted it onto the international stage.... Read More

Vacation rental business isn’t new in the travel and tourism sector, you can read plenty of stories about how travellers used to send paper cheques and finalize rental paper contracts for their trips... Read More

About 1,500 people have donated funds to a 22-year-old entrepreneur, who is crowdfunding a legal defense fund in response to a lawsuit by United and Orbitz against himself and his cheap airfare websit... Read More

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for December 2014. Monday 29 December 2014: Virgin Hotels offers free wifi Virgin Hotels,... Read More