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Big chain-backed hotel search engine Room Key is spreading into new territories this week with news that it is opening sites for consumers in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.... Read More

Combining the words website and £500,000 fine in a sentence is usually enough to make most people in travel sit up and take notice... Read More

Secret Escapes partners with DiscountVouchers, VFM Leonardo unveils VPowered, Vayama and PocketGuide, Brittany Ferries and Maxymiser, Seats2Meet and Meetin.gs, TripIt apps... A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More

Travelport released its fourth quarter and full-year results for 2011 today. A quick overview follows:... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Brazil and Argentina-based Zarpo, a new member-only service specifically targeting travellers in South America.... Read More

Warren Chang, general manager of Fly.com, wonders about all the fuss regarding Google Flight Search.... Read More

Big effort from the travel section of NineMSN, leaping in to the top ten most popular travel websites in Australia in a heady first place.... Read More

AirAsia is back on top of the list of most talked about airlines on Twitter, seeing almost double the amount of tweets mentioning the carrier in February compared to the previous month.... Read More

The power of the Apple App Store and, to a lesser extent, the Android Market, has inspired travel companies such as Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Sabre to create apps' markets of their own to suit their own purposes.... Read More

In other words: huge.... Read More

Hotwire's recent good run of form in the list of leading travel websites in the US has ended after a resurgent Yahoo Travel swooped to take fourth spot.... Read More

Airbnb is starting to sweep up some of its competition around the world with confirmation that it has this week bought rival brand Crashpadder in the UK.... Read More

Doyle goes mobile, Experian IDs transaction losses, VisitGuernsey digis the brochures, MyTravel socialises, Groupon figures. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More

Here's a neat infographic from TagMan demonstrating the impact social media plug-ins can have on purchasing.... Read More

Curious goings on in France last week after SeLoger Vacances emerged from relative obscurity to become the most popular agency website in the country.... Read More