What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 23 May to Saturday 29 May 2010:
Story of the week:
Top three most commented articles:
- Google buys online travel guide Ruba
- The most visited travel websites on the web – April 2010
- Barry Diller on search, mobile and why foreigners fail in China
Controversial topic of the week:
Series of the week:
- Part 1: Five challenges on the journey to mastering travel inspiration
- Part 2: Five challenges on the journey to mastering travel inspiration
- Part 3: Five challenges on the journey to mastering travel inspiration
- Part 4: Five challenges on the journey to mastering travel inspiration
- Part 5: Five challenges on the journey to mastering travel inspiration
TLabs:
Stats:
- UK Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End May 22 2010
- US Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End May 22 2010
- Hong Kong Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End May 22 2010
- Australia Travel Site Crunch: Data Week End May 22 2010
And the rest (most recent first):
- Apple, strikes and Bangkok – guest appearance on This Week in Travel podcast
- Amazing global view of user generated photos on the web
- Google-ITA Software: a waiting game with plenty behind the scenes
- Travel technology trends at Global Tourism & Travel Summit
- Point Inside brings detailed airport maps to iPhone and iPad
- Fly.com unclutters logo with redesign
- A letter from Tnooz-TripAdvisor to hoteliers affected by the Gulf oil spill
- Times Square becomes Wi-Fi hotzone for iPhone users
- Priceline extends Name Your Own Price hotel guarantee
- Facebook becomes the place for quirky travel promotions
- Miami hotel offers oil spill special for online booking and hotel commission
- Tourist board tweets — Jamaica still open for business
- Microsoft Surface helps out at a travel agency [VIDEO]
- Travelocity Roaming Gnome joins FourSquare, heads to London
- Continental goes kiosk crazy with Houston terminal renovation
- TripAdvisor offers free listings to hotels threatened by Gulf oil spill
- HRG sees online travel adoption rising in North America
- MyCityWay gets $300K as NYC establishes Entrepreneurial Fund
- UEFA, Carlson, HRG adopt new FlightPortal online travel carbon scheme
- Global air travel technology now controlled from Montreal and Singapore
- GDS Bitesize – service news, agreements, products from Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre
- Hotel guests can submit reviews with new TripAdvisor iPhone app
- Kayak explores map-based search for air, hotels, activities
- Fly.com hopes to mirror Travelzoo global expansion programme, package holidays next
- OffandAway is off and away with launch of hotel-room auction website
- Car rental becoming hotbed of activity, Argus Car Hire relaunches
- Gekko glides down the bookmarking route for hotel search
- Stash Hotel Rewards: another travel project from Expedia alums
- Most influential on Twitter: Barack Obama, JetBlue and some other folk
- InterContinental hits it big with Gowalla mobile marketing
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