The Week in Travel Tech - November 22 to 28 2009

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 22 November to Saturday 28 November 2009:

Top three most commented articles this week:

• RoomAtlas – look what a retired banker and his son can do in their spare time
• Will Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206 be an empty message in a bottle?
• Sending fake press releases from the ABTA account at Travmedia is easy

And the rest (most recent first):

• Maybe FareCompare will beat Bing-Farecast to Europe?
• Peter Jones ignores first rule of brand ambassadorship – stay on-message
• TerminalA negotiating to prevent the ultimate departure
• One-on-one with Rob Torres, head of Google Travel
• Day Ten of Ten – Online marketing tips for travel
• European Union wades into web package holiday confusion, half of travellers not protected
• Is NileGuide one example of how to stop the internet ruining travel journalism?
• BigMouthMedia digital marketing survey – results show swing to social media
• No Bing Travel-Farecast launch in Europe this year
• Social media – why man is beating the machine
• Day Nine of Ten – Online marketing tips for travel
• My unsolicited social-media advice for Continental Airlines
• Lastminute.com says the most useful thing to spend marketing money on is analytics
• US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End November 21 2009
• Day Eight of Ten – Online marketing tips for travel
• Social media gap: DOT fines airlines on tarmac delay — Continental Airlines what say you?
• Richard Branson resorts to New Jersey location for cooking school
• Mobile gets seaworthy as Oasis of the Seas uses iPhones for Royal Connect
• FlightCaster launches public API and licensing model
• Day Seven of Ten – Online marketing tips for travel
• Hotelicopter creates do-it-yourself hotel widget for small content sites
• UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End November 21 2009
• Travelzoo shakes up top executive roster, puts a Brit in as CEO
• Day Six of Ten – Online marketing tips for travel
• TripIt launches Android app as travel itineraries get more mobile

Previous Week in Travel Tech:

• November 15-21 2009
• November 8-14 2009
• November 1-7 2009
• 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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