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Touristlink has created this infographic drawing together some of the numbers around how social media is influencing travel.... Read More

European online travel agency Lastminute.com is setting up camp in a well known techie hotel this week to test prototypes of new technology with guests.... Read More

Citizens of Sweden were thrust into the limelight this year when the national tourism authority gave them the chance to share their lives on its official Twitter profile.... Read More

Further good news for accommodation provider Agoda as it turns its modest lead over the likes of TripAdvisor into an increasingly dominant position.... Read More

Whether you're a journalist, blogger, or content creator for a travel site like a hotel or metasearch company, there are interesting lessons to be learned from the success of CNNGo and its current rebranding effort.... Read More

As a judge at the Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit last week, I had the honor of having 30 companies present their businesses to me and my fellow judges in eight-minute slots during one day.... Read More

Micros eCommerce, HGK, Rome2Rio, MapBox, Google+, Aviasales, Minube, Voyage Privé, TripFlick, Viator, Minube, GuestLogix, all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 20 November.... Read More

A quite interesting new way of hotel socializing is being implemented in the Grand City Hotels in Germany.... Read More

Suppliers continue to talk incessantly about these two strategies for revenue generation: merchandising and loyalty. Can they co-exist peacefully? Can third parties do either well? In short, not yet.... Read More

Rather peculiar turn of events in the world of social travel media startups this week as Gtrot pivoted again to become a, err, gift sending service.... Read More

I can’t even begin to remember the number of times I have heard hoteliers talk about the need to get more direct business, preferably through their own hotel websites.... Read More

Two eye-catching stories out of India: RezNext, a hotel distribution platform targeting Asian businesses first, has debuted, and India's largest online travel agency by ticket volume, MakeMyTrip, has purchased travel site HotelTravel for $25 million.... Read More

The plaintiff claims that the offer is unfair to KYAK stockholders and undervalues the company.... Read More

Travelocity has lost third position in the list of leading travel websites in the US to CheapOAir, as both Expedia and Priceline also lost some market share in October.... Read More

The travel industry is flooded with venture capital investment. Millions of Dollars and Euros are poured into a multitude of travel startups all the time.... Read More