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Priceline's private label unit Priceline Partner Network (PPN)  has linked up with the Reader's Digest Association and will help it launch a travel channel on two of its premium sites. The deal cov... Read More

Over the past few weeks there has been a major shift in the travel industry that has the potential to significantly impact booking revenue for hospitality organizations. NB This is a guest article... Read More

Tripping says it is the first metasearch for vacation rentals to enable reservations facilitated within its own user interface. Booking.com, the hotel reservations giant, was the first company to p... Read More

Lufthansa Group has shared more details with travel agents on how it plans to introduce a Distribution Cost Charge (DCC) for airplane ticket bookings made using a global distribution system (GDS), sta... Read More

There's a fine line between presenting relevant, timely information and services to travellers and freaking them out with how much you know about them. A recent delve into sentiment from Boxever hi... Read More

"The onion is slowly and surely getting peeled back", argues Jim Spanfeller.... Read More

Roy Morgan Research in Australia has found that online travel agents are not far behind market leader Flight Centre and are outperforming the other big high street players in the market. The findin... Read More

Cruise trips are unusual for many reasons, but not least because from a distribution perspective the majority of consumers book offline. The product is often complicated (multiple stops, excursions... Read More

Portr is looking to expand from its original London City Airport launch to other facilities following a sizeable investment raise of £3.3 million. The on-demand luggage collection and delivery serv... Read More

As connected consumers, we’re increasingly running our lives from smart devices, yet despite the fact that we have high-speed internet access at home, at work, on the move and even underground at Lond... Read More

Permission is a powerful thing, whether we grant it to others or ourselves. As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” NB This is a guest article... Read More

Apparently some 60 million messages on Twitter had a mention of "hotel" in them over the course of the past year. That figure is actually three times as many as those noting a "holiday" or "vacatio... Read More

A group of China-linked hackers that has mowed through the databanks of major American health insurers and stolen personnel records of U.S. military and intelligence agencies has struck at the heart of the nation's air-travel system, say people familiar with investigations of the attacks.... Read More

It is not a revolution, as some commentators would have the industry believe. But 10% of travellers using a "shared accommodation"-type product is hugely significant. The number comes from a major... Read More

In the tug of war between hoteliers and online travel agencies (OTAs), have you ever wondered why hotels just don’t stop working with OTAs and just go at it alone, seeking to get direct bookings from... Read More