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User generated content and hotel reviews have become a mainstay of travel sites in recent years, giving visitors the chance to see what the wisdom of the crowds has to say about a property.... Read More

Yet more legal shenanigans from the US with American Airlines filing an antitrust action at Travelport and Orbitz over the ongoing Direct-Connect issue.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based LGBT travel network QGuide.... Read More

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It's official: Google and ITA Software closed on their $700 million transaction and ITA is now part of Google.... Read More

Ebookers goes cruising in Ireland, FindMyBeach locks in with HostelWorld, Bing-Yahoo take a bit of search from Google, LateRooms says Bonjour to ViaMchelin.... Read More

Airlines and air traffic controllers in Europe are embarking on a 48-hour exercise this week to monitor new technology and procedures in the event of another volcanic eruption.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in New Zealand for the week ending April 9 2011:... Read More

Sometimes it seems that Google has so many different experiments going on with hotel ads and pricing that it is simply planting them in various search results and pages to see which ones sprout.... Read More

Orbitz for Business introduced a mobile website enabling road warriors to book flights, hotels and cars while complying with corporate policy and also view and manage their itineraries.... Read More

The proposed settlement in the Google-ITA Software deal requires the parties to negotiate new contracts and renewals for ITA's QPX and looming InstaSearch customers, but Google and ITA are free to develop exclusive products without having to pass them along to clients.... Read More

A change of direction for travel startup Kukunu after just 18 months of operation with a new site called Scoville, targeting destination services and recommendations.... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending April 9 2011.... Read More

Imagine the joy recently when those that ordinarily spend a lot of time criticising Ryanair apparently discovered a loophole in its system to get cheaper flights.... Read More

Such is the ease in which people can shoot and upload video to the web these days - coupled with the popularity of the Airbus A380 - that this incident was caught on camera last night.... Read More