
Travel tech updates from TripZilla, Travelmob, LoveHolidays, Southwest Airlines, Cathay Pacific, PT Telkom, Zomato, Avis, Thomas Cook and more.

Travel tech updates from TripZilla, Travelmob, LoveHolidays, Southwest Airlines, Cathay Pacific, PT Telkom, Zomato, Avis, Thomas Cook and more.

When it comes to payment challenges, travel executives cite card surcharges and international payments as their biggest headaches

More impact, higher margins — for top retailers, there’s method to their ancillary sales, says Amadeus and IdeaWorksCompany.

You go out for dinner and check-in from the restaurant using foursquare or Facebook and a companion — or two — wonders aloud why you persist in telling the world where you are.

That’s what the latest Digital IQ Index report from L2 Think Tank says when it reviewed the “digital competence” of 52 of the world’s leading hotel brands.

Does a hotel’s overall digital competence translate into more revenue per available room and a bump in its stock price?

Booking.com says it offers 202,842 hotels globally and a new report says the Priceline Group — Booking.com, Agoda and Priceline.com — collectively is adding properties at a quickening pace.

Has Groupon and the voucher craze in general seeped into the psyche of smartphone-wielding road warriors?
The Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC), the airline-owned settlement service, will begin releasing, on a regular basis, monthly numbers for online travel agency and travel management company sales.
ARC has traditionally released monthly stats on travel agency sales, including the dollar amounts, numbers of transactions and a breakdown of things like domestic and international fares.
For example, total travel agency sales remitted through ARC in November 2009 increased 6.72% to $5.1 billion, compared with the previous November, and this was the first monthly uptick of the year.

Banish how it used to be carried out – travel inspiration and searching for products has changed immeasurably as consumers find new ways of finding the perfect trip.

Do you understand the true costs of travel payments, how to reduce your exposure to credit card fraud and surcharges or how virtual cards work?

Discussing recent hot topics such as the TripAdvisor-Jetsetter acquisition, hotel wifi, Wordpress and hotels, mobile design and user experience.

Ancillary services are here to stay, so how do travel companies and airlines develop their technology and relationships so that merchandising can work for everyone?
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