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It's not often that the ideas of a undergraduate engineering student at University of Malaysia get featured by ABC News, The Economist, and the Christian Science Monitor.... Read More

New Israel-based site Roomer lets users sell recoup the cost of pre-paid hotel reservations they can't keep by re-selling them in a marketplace. It announced its funding today, and launched its new site.... Read More

Wander, which has raised $1.2 million in funding, is so successful at strip-teasing its product that no one outside of the company knows what it is.... Read More

Frustration with travel reviews drove Triptease founder Charlie Osmond to develop the service after six years working in social media... Read More

Tnooz caught up with two speakers at the Expion Social Business Summit in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA, last month: Charlene Li from Altimeter Group and Diana Plazas from DoubleTree by Hilton.... Read More

To the outside, a travel site called CabinGuru seemed like a perfect idea - a cruise planning and information service, perhaps a little bit like the TripAdvisor-owned SeatGuru.... Read More

I recently sat on a panel addressing destination marketers about just that: destination marketing today and tomorrow.... Read More

US airline JetBlue has entered itself into Google's "If I had Glass" contest via a series of posts on Twitter and on Google+ that feature "concept versions" of what passengers might experience. Savvy marketing.... Read More

The Gray Lady officially announced its deep skepticism about the New Distribution Capability (NDC), the airlines' proposal for revised standards for how airlines provide airfare content to end users. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) responds.... Read More

Multi-modal travel search is gathering pace as GoEuro today announces $4m seed funding led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures... Read More

Today DealAngel, a hotel search engine and aggregator, revealed that it will now be giving buy/wait advice to travelers based on market pricing trends for hotels.... Read More

The number one goal of any travel company is to increase conversion. The higher the conversion, the better the profit.... Read More

Spotted by Locals has scored a bit of coup by making it on to Google Field Trip - one of only two travel guide publishers to provide content to the mobile app. Now when Android users, who have the... Read More

Here's a funny one that those of you with iPhones might like to try tonight - the Ibis Sleep Art application... Read More

What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?... Read More