Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending November 13 2010.
TripAdvisor not particularly worried about Facebook, but Google is another thing
November 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
The annual interview with TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer at the PhoCusWright conference touched briefly on the various elephants in the room.
Clarke: Travelport watching Kayak, General Motors IPO efforts
November 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Travelport is keeping its options open about going public and is gauging its prospects as it observes how General Motors, Kayak and private equity-held companies are faring in their IPO efforts, an official said.
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Kayak will add booking path to website, Swoodoo will be like Sidestep
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
So perhaps delegates here were expecting CEO Steve Hafner to give away some insight around Kayak’s decision to IPO this morning.
Sharples of HomeAway: We are finding ecommerce religion, but …
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
Vacation rental leader HomeAway has been finding religion in ecommerce, but doesn’t feel it should “throw too much down a pipe until you know it works.â€
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Yapta, MasterCard enter into flight price assurance agreement
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
Yapta and MasterCard plan to begin a beta in December in which MasterCard consumer and small business cardholders purchasing flights with their cards would be able to receive Yapta’s price monitoring and price assurance services.
Google-ITA Software deal: Google fires major broadside at FairSearch
November 17, 2010 By 15 Comments
Google has launched a significant attack on the FairSearch campaign group as it tries to defend its acquisition of ITA Software from what it calls “complainers”.
American Airlines to charge agents a surcharge on Travelport bookings
November 17, 2010 By 6 Comments
The American Airlines dispute with Orbitz and Travelport just got global in nature with the airline poised to charge travel agents outside the U.S. a surcharge on all bookings processed through Travelport’s Galileo and Worldspan global distribution systems beginning in February.
