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Officials in the French capital have announced the launch of a startup incubator focused on "urban tourism", named Welcome City Lab.... Read More

VeryFirstTo, a UK luxury products and experiences company, is selling what it calls the world's most expensive package holiday: a two-year tour of 962 UNESCO World Heritage sites in 157 countries.... Read More

Qantas has a 4% market share lead at the top of the leading airline websites in Australia, reigning over sister brand Jetstar, Virgin Australia and Tiger Airways.... Read More

In the mid-2000s, link-exchanges were a popular way for travel websites to try to game Google's search engine results.... Read More

A UK competition regulator, The Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is being kept busy in the travel space right now.... Read More

After 30 years working in online travel PointsHound's founders decided to find a more flexible way for frequent travellers to collect and maximise airline loyalty miles... Read More

Think the big boys in travel are not taking tours and activities seriously? Might need to think again.... Read More

Travel tech updates from Luxe Nomad, DestinAsian, Goibibo, RateTiger, TripAdvisor, Cleartrip, Room 77, SITA, Qantas, ANA and more.... Read More

TripAdvisor announced a significant partnership this week: the travel advice service will be fully integrated into the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 phones.... Read More

Radars generally go up a little bit when a company that has openly talked about going on the public markets goes and hires a new chief financial officer.... Read More

PointsHound, a hotel booking service enabling guests to collect points from the airline loyalty scheme of their choice, has received seed funding of $425,000... Read More

Qiito, Singapore-based travel inspiration portal has launched its first revenue generating feature - the ability to book bed and breakfast accommodation (aka minsu)... Read More

There was quite a bit of travel-related news happening in and around the mass chaos otherwise known as the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, USA. Beyond travel, there are all kinds of themes and happenings signaling the continued evolution of the tech, creative and content businesses.... Read More

Landmark stat for Southwest after the airline continued its dominance of the web amongst US carriers, securing double the amount of traffic traffic of its nearest rival.... Read More

Interesting data around mobile shopping habits in the US and UK, the type of purchases and users attitudes to mobile advertisements in this infographic from marketing research company, Intela.... Read More