News

More than half of TripAdvisor users say they won't book a hotel if it has no reviews according to research carried out for the company... Read More

More developments in Russian online travel with Yandex dropping a flight search box into its results pages for travellers searching using some of the most frequently used terms... Read More

Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing - even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago.... Read More

Next time you're hitting the road for a conference or exhibition here's a quirky Facebook application which helps users see where everyone has stayed... Read More

Passengers who click their fingers to get the staff's attention is the biggest gripe for a quarter of cabin crew. Who knew?... Read More

Scooping $250,000 from General Catalyst Partners is clearly a rather nice way for TourWrist to end its involvement in this year' Travel Innovation Summit at the PhoCusWright Conference.... Read More

Center Stage, the flagship event of the PhoCusWright Conference week, kicks off today and we are here to stream it, comment on it, capture the buzz around it.... Read More

BookingMarkets has developed a cloud-based property management system for small independent hotels.... Read More

The tool lets business travelers post hotel ratings that only their peers can see, and it provides travel managers a source of feedback exclusively on company-compliant properties near corporate offices.... Read More

Hotels should insist on guests filling out surveys while still on the property so that owners have a chance to respond to problems before guests write user reviews.... Read More

Orbitz CEO Barney Harford sits down for an informal chat about industry trends and travel thoughts for this year and next.... Read More

Today the user-reviews giant unveils The TripAdvisor App for Facebook, a way for hotel owners to pad their Facebook Pages with reviews, ratings, and other content.... Read More

Hipmunk, Vayama, TVTrip, Leading Hotels of the World, Hostelworld, RyanAir, Easyjet, Kulula Airlines, OpenJaw, and AvailPro all get mentioned in our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 14 November.... Read More

Thomson has just a tiny lead over Expedia as the gap between the pair narrowed to just 0.06% in the list of leading UK travel websites in October 2012.... Read More

Ramping up of the revenue-generating options for Gogobot with news of new hotel search and booking tools and a deal with OpenTable for restaurants.... Read More