What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 21 February to Saturday 27 February 2010:
Top three most commented articles this week:
- CWT may outsource back-office technology to Amadeus
- Travel Promotion Act fallout — e-marketing to play substantial role
- With discomfort, Priceline expects Google, Bing to cozy up to travelers
Controversial topic of the week:
Tnooz news:
And the rest (most recent first):
- Glitch grounded JetBlue flights for an hour, don’t blame Sabre
- SeaWorld silences Shamu tweets, but keeps dialogue going
- Amazing stats – hotel web activity still growing at huge rates
- TripAdvisor leverages user reviews to name top movie hotels
- Canadian online travel seller Go Travel South ceases operations
- Rethinking by travel agencies in 2009 may have saved their 2010
- Datalex delivers hotels, car rentals to South African Airways
- Concur corporate-booking tool and mobile app land Southwest Airlines
- HomeAway dismisses IPO prediction from Expedia
- Carnival Cruises rewrites social media policy, frees the travel tweeters
- Google extends Comparison Ads drive, hints that travel is in its sights
- Hong Kong Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 20 2010
- Expedia CEO expects HomeAway to go public, cites 50% TripAdvisor margins
- Priceline CEO on metasearch swan song, private sales, Expedia, Asia strategy
- Carnival, Travelocity say e-marketing, SEO, website tweaks behind traffic surge
- Riding its wave, Carnival Cruise Lines raises prices
- Hotwire’s deals newsletter reaches 11 million subscribers
- Lufthansa celebrates 36,000 tweets from MySkyStatus project
- Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 20 2010
- In a bow to TripIt, new Expedia iPhone app accommodates non-Expedia itineraries
- Weak-link no more: ebookers leads Orbitz transaction growth
- British Airways flies back into SuperBrands top ten, Virgin also climbing
- Tripology has a buyer, but stays tight-lipped over ‘name you all know’
- Expedia notches Philadelphia hotel-tax win
- Continental to lay off reservations agents as Continental.com share grows
- Twitter way down list of social media sites used by budget travellers
- Zugu already considering other travel products for metasearch
- Indian dream Rang7 turns into a nightmare
- US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 20 2010
- TravelSupermarket says clicks to British Airways flights dropped by 20% as strike threat loomed
- Travelport lets Middle East agents get chatty with TravelChat
- Lastminute.com and Google – the best advertising that money can’t buy
- Will Travelport IPO reappear in New York?
- UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End February 20 2010
- Thomas Cook decides TripAdvisor reviews are good after all
- Can travel be smart about Smart Computing?
Previous Week in Travel Tech:
- February 14-20 2010
- February 7-13 2010
- January 31-February 6 2010
- January 24-30 2010
- January 17-23 2010
- January 10-16 2010
- January 3-9 2010
- December 27-January 2 2010
- December 20-26 2009
- December 13-19 2009
- December 6-12 2009
- November 29-December 5 2009
- November 22-28 2009
- 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
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