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Booking.com, Carpooling, BlockAvenue, Starwood Hotels, Boingo, Hotelbeds, all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 12 December.... Read More

For years now hotel marketers have claimed that search engines are on the way out as a viable marketing and distribution channel in hospitality.... Read More

The travel industry Christmas shopping spree continues this week with Webjet paying $25 million to Travelocity to acquire its Zuji online travel agency.... Read More

I was catching up on RSS today and read a piece by Alex Bainbridge on Tnooz about the Top Eight Travel Industry Battles.... Read More

Booking.com is in danger of losing its coveted prime position at the top of the leading travel websites in Brazil to user review giant TripAdvisor.... Read More

Luxury destination club Inspirato sent Harris Interactive on a pre-holiday polling binge to determine which cities in North America were planning to spend the most amount of money on their annual holiday escape.... Read More

Back in the golden age of travel, when everyone dressed up to fly (or at least showered and shaved) and there was legroom in coach, frequent travelers used travel agencies to book travel. Now, they have apps.... Read More

What does $300 million buy you these days (apart from a minority stake in Virgin Atlantic)? It gets you Barry Diller's shares and voting control of TripAdvisor.... Read More

Mooted seriously for a few weeks and predicted tactically by many for years, Delta and Virgin Atlantic have agreed a major joint venture in a bid to put pressure on their transatlantic rivals.... Read More

Okay, not easy at all given that Lionel Messi and Kobe Bryant are two of the hottest (and probably most expensive) sporting properties on the planet right now.... Read More

Today HotelTonight launches in Mexico and Europe, while yesterday same-day hotel booking iPhone app LastRoom officially debuted.... Read More

The London-based startup that has developed an innovative B2B airfare-shopping engine, has completed a raise and is now shifting its focus to Asia, where it's had success with Aussie OTA Jetabroad.... Read More

Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Asia.... Read More

Search-by-price-on-maps service Flocations has raised almost $600,000 in pre-series funding as it looks to expand its initial service to include hotel product.... Read More

Given the global success of Where The Hell is Matt?, it's surprising we haven't seen more travel companies fighting with each other to strike a deal with its creator, Matt Harding... Read More