American Airlines visiting travel agents with direct-connect contract push

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American Airlines employees have been visiting travel agents in several states over the last few weeks carrying several documents — nondisclosure agreements about their discussions and direct-connect licensing contracts.

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Golden oldies – travel technology in 1984 [VIDEO]

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The name Travicom is enough to make even hard nosed folk in travel tech glisten with nostalgia, momentarily at least.

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Air France loves Cannes festival, hands flight movie selection to social media

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With the film festival in Cannes now in full swing, Air France has found a fun way of celebrating the annual extravaganza and also get Facebook fans involved.

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HotelTonight gets more than $3 million in funding

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HotelTonight, an iPhone app for same-day hotel bookings, will have plenty of days ahead of it, now that it has secured $3.25 million in a series A funding round led by Battery Ventures.

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Top travel websites in the US – May 7 2011

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Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending May 7 2011.

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Rough guide to modern distribution in hostelling

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Travelers who love hostels usually say their favorite thing is the social life – meeting new friends, hanging out in the bar or lobby or garden, the potential for new experiences.

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TLabs Showcase – Gtrot

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based social travel planning service Gtrot.

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Top travel websites in the UK – May 7 2011

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Most popular travel websites in the UK for the week ending May 7 2011.

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Lonely Planet slashes web team, moves rest to London

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Bad news for the web and digital folk at Lonely Planet with the team taking the brunt of widespread redundancies at the same time as the entire department heads north to London.

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GetThere pushes train services with SilverRail partnership

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Significant new partnership for the growing SilverRail Technologies business with an agreement with Sabre’s travel management and expense system GetThere.

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