The Week in Travel Tech - November 1 to 7 2009

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 1 November to Saturday 7 November 2009:

Top three most commented articles this week:

• American Airlines unleashes a GDS earthquake
• Why the Long Tail of travel is wagging the head of the dog
• Expedia axes fees for phone bookings, running out of charges to cut

And the rest (most recent first):

• Day Six of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• The push-pull of the Orbitz-Travelport relationship
• Can the last mega-travel agency to leave please make sure they turn out the lights
• Is HomeAway right when it says holiday rentals is the hottest sector in travel?
• Skyscanner says Hola and Hallo with hotel and car search expansion
• Day Five of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• Kayak liftoff: First traffic report from new TV ad campaign
• Travelport to take massive writedown of GTA, but will invest in Orbitz
• Day Four of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• Lastminute.com loses top executive Vic Darvey to the money world
• Live aircraft movements – the best travel mashup of all time?
• UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End October 31 2009
• OTA booking-fee cuts lead to more converts for some, fewer converts for others
• Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End October 31 2009
• US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End October 31 2009
• Did the MSN redesign team jilt Travel? Looks like, feels like
• Florida sues Expedia and Orbitz, but what else you really audit know
• TripAdvisor stops Trivago brand-bidding, starts again, then stops
• Day Three of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• Tnooz at TravelBlogCamp 2009
• Travelport barges in with nice niche for eWaterways
• Technology firm FastBooking unveils consumer site for luxury hotels
• Day Two of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• Technology spend by airports accounts for just three per cent of revenue
• EuropCar aiming to make car hire sexy with Silverlight and Surface
• Big Four OTAs socked with $20.6M hotel tax verdict in Texas
• In calculating move, Amadeus to integrate carbon data
• Express checkout: Hyatt IPO proceeds to go missing
• Day One of Ten – Understanding and boosting ancillary revenue
• BRIC by BRIC approach for Skyscanner as international push widens
• Those Kayak TV ads in full – might need a second viewing
• Expedia’s ups and downs: When will advertising biz eclipse car and cruise?

Previous Week in Travel Tech:

• October 25-31 2009
• October 18-24 2009
• October 11-17 2009
• October 3-10 2009

Top three most commented articles of all time on Tnooz:

• The internet is ruining travel journalism
• Lead technology supplier for Thomas Cook goes into administration
• Google helping TripAdvisor to maintain barrier to entry

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