GAP Adventures is the latest in what is becoming an increasingly long line of travel companies to turn to online competitions to raise their profile.
Travelzoo heads email charts, but are figures representative?
Deals publisher Travelzoo is understandably showing off some data this week that illustrates its position at the top of a chart of travel firms who receive traffic from user emails.
HotelsCombined adds TUI and HRS to European partners
Hotelopia and Hotel Reservation Service have joined the HotelsCombined metasearch engine roster of European brands spearheading its growth across the continent.
Super Bowl ads: Homeaway yes, Google probably, Kayak no
All of the excitement leading up to tonight’s Super Bowl has little to do with the gridiron and much to do with the advertisements.
Thus, John Battelle’s Searchblog reports that Google will break longstanding tradition and run a TV advertisement during tonight’s Super Bowl.
Tripology CEO speaks – but will not discuss old investor Markus Deutsch
John Peters, CEO of under-pressure agent-lead service Tripology, has broken his silence after a difficult week for the New York-based company.
New Orleans, smitten with Mardi Gras, edges Vegas in Priceline Valentine
Priceline.com took a sampling of more than 30,000 Name-Your-Own Price bids and found that downtown New Orleans was the most-sought after destination for the upcoming long weekend, Feb. 12-15, which includes Valentine’s Day Feb. 14 and Presidents’ Day Feb. 15.
Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling

There is so much focus on Google and Apple in the mobile phone market that it may come as a surprise to hear that Yahoo is the tech firm knocking on the door of the patent office.
Jilted by JetBlue for Sabre, Navitaire strikes back
While much of the attention in JetBlue’s cutover to the SabreSonic CSS as the airline’s reservations system provider has focused on new functionalities, Navitaire, the company that JetBlue largely discarded after a decade-old relationship, feels there are misperceptions about its capabilities and believes that the “true winner” in the conversion likely will be Sabre — and not necessarily JetBlue.










