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American Airlines and Travelport say they've extended their global distribution system full-content agreements beyond 2011.... Read More

Atlanta-based Travel Spike has issued a cease and desist letter to New York-headquartered Travel Ad Network (TAN), alleging trademark infringement.... Read More

Expedia Inc. is in the process of putting Expedia UK's hotels onto Expedia's new global technology platform and can only hope that the results mimic the gangbuster manner in which Hotels.com has taken to the platform.... Read More

Delta Air Lines began offering travelers LivingSocial deals specific to their flights and trip dates, enabling travelers to sign up for them through the MyTrips portion of Delta.com.... Read More

One common theme when technical discussions turn to Person-to-Person (P2P) marketplaces is the concept of availability control.... Read More

Investigation launched at Travelport today after learning the Twitter account belonging its Opinions review and online network had been Tweeting about dieting.... Read More

Hotel marketing and consultancy group WIHP has spent some monitoring the booking behaviour on consumers on independent hotels in Europe.... Read More

Expedia is just 1% ahead of rival Flight Centre as the gap between the top three agencies in Australia narrows this week.... Read More

Google's entry into the hotel business is shaping up -- literally.... Read More

TripIt, the itinerary management service acquired by Concur in January, has reached a milestone: 1 million mobile users.... Read More

Accommodation service LateRooms has become the latest travel company to offer a "virtual concierge" service via social media channels Twitter and Facebook.... Read More

Whether it is a bargain or not may be up to the individual traveler to ascertain, but one thing is certain: You won't find JetBlue's new BluePass available in global distribution systems.... Read More

With the collapse of the idea of creating a game-changing new TravelPost, its owners have put it up for sale and are turning their attention and the hotel review site's funding over to their new iPhone app and website, Trover.... Read More

Every day new records are broken in terms of mobile usage in travel. But there is no definitive guide yet on how to turn a hotel mobile website into a successful engagement platform for mobile users.... Read More

Chinese search engine Baidu is wasting no time making the most of its $306 million investment in metasearch site Qunar, promising to soon incorporate hotel search.... Read More