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Google has recorded quite a spike in queries for last minute travel products from mobile devices in recent months... Read More

Merchants with Square software will be able to receive a signal from customers who have downloaded the Square app to authenticate them via geo-location services and process a transaction by matching a customer's face and voice with a database record.... Read More

Newspapers have spent the best part of, well, ever since the web came along, trying to figure out how to capitalise on travel search and content being one of the most popular activities online.... Read More

User review site TripAdvisor has lost an eighth of its market share in the battle at the top of the leading travel websites in New Zealand.... Read More

Travel Onion, a three-year old, US-based startup, relaunched this month to become an aggregation service for about 120 daily deals sites along with blogs and contests.... Read More

Maps have a transformative power – they are a relentless source of visual creativity, especially in the travel industry.... Read More

Over seven months after co-founder and CEO Tom Romary quit the company, Yapta has installed a new boss to take care of the airfare price tracking service.... Read More

Amazing that an airline of EasyJet's size until today didn't have a mobile-optimised website - but the launch marks the latest foray by the carrier into services on-the-go.... Read More

Another 'what were they thinking?' moment on Twitter this week with the Maldives Tourism Board's campaign taking a spectacular dive since its launch six days ago... Read More

In what is being billed as an attempt to boost domestic tourism, Qantas has unveiled a service called Hooroo combining hotel search and booking with a big emphasis on social media.... Read More

Jetstar and its sister brand have swapped places in the list of leading travel websites in Australia, with Qantas taking the crown during June 2012.... Read More

If the creation of brand loyalty is the sine qua non of all marketing, then the way that companies define both themselves and those who purchase their products is no less of a priority.... Read More

Following a beta in the Spring, NextGreatPlace, a membership-based holiday club, makes its public debut today... Read More

Market leader for taxi-call apps myTaxi launches the first mobile payment system on the German taxi market.... Read More

One of the most revolutionary trends happening in hotel technology right now is the use of social media data and customer review analytics in optimizing distribution and maximizing revenue growth.... Read More