Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending January 30 2010.
Why your Facebook fans are phonies
February 2, 2010 By 7 Comments
A Facebook poll to find which US state can get the most ‘fans’ might be interesting in the short term but over time it is probably – and unfortunately – utterly meaningless.
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Two corporate booking tools make nice — Amadeus opens tech vault for Concur
February 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
Amadeus and Concur, vendors of competing corporate self-booking tools, entered into a global strategic partnership which finds Amadeus lending a third-party — in this case, a rival turned ally — some of Amadeus’ close-to-the vest distribution technology for the first time.
Travel Technology Europe 2010 in London – exhibitor profiles
February 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
The who’s who of the Travel Technology Europe event in London on 9 and 10 February.
Seven little words worth $21M — ‘OTCs do not control and run hotels’
February 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
A California Superior Court in Los Angeles today set aside a hearing officer’s decision in Anaheim, Calif., in 2009 that would have forced Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz and friends to shell out $21.3 million in hotel taxes tied to their practice of the merchant model.
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FlyBe website collapses – customers annoyed and in the dark
February 1, 2010 By 6 Comments
European budget airline FlyBe is struggling to maintain its online presence after a series of problems over the past few days.
Two US airlines taking seat upgrades to mobile apps through Farelogix, Mobiata
February 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Two U.S. airlines are testing mobile apps that would deliver seat upgrades, lounge passes, check-ins and/or priority boarding through a new partnership between Farelogix and Mobiata, officials say.
Travelport, Amadeus and Thomas Cook – threesomes no longer working
February 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Travelport is celebrating what it calls “a huge win” after securing exclusive rights to connect Thomas Cook offline retail travel agencies to airline data via the Galileo GDS – but who is the loser?
Mavis Beacon and the Lost Art (of Travel Content)
February 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Way back when – the Internet was new and DOS titles were giving way to CD-ROMs and Windows 95 based software (not apps as we now call most of them) – there were a number of staple products.
