Destinations, hotels, tours and activities – now groups can vote for their favourite on Facebook

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The winning product in the category for three developers or more at THack @ SFO last week came via Amadeus, using a dizzying array of APIs to create TVote.

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Travelport takes a tablet to combine the social graph of Facebook with activities, flights and hotels

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Another hack from the recent THack @ SFO event in San Francisco, this time featuring the product created by a development team from Travelport.

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Trip planning for food and drink – a match and a hack made in heaven for travellers

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Foodies or wine lovers will often design their latest jaunt based specifically on the best spots to eat and drink – but few travel sites reverse engineer the search process.

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DataArt hacks away to bend your trip into something new

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One of the participants at last week’s THack @ SFO was DataArt, pulling together APIs from Vayant, Travelport and LocalGuiding to create BendMyTrip.

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The buzz of San Francisco Bay, taking off the rose-tinted specs, and seeing the Space Shuttle

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With a mixture of nerves and excitement, Tnooz rolled into San Francisco last week to host the latest stop on its roadshow of developer THack events.

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Group bookings with a twist and the food trip travel service win THack @ SFO

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Mashups catering for foodies and consumers happy to allow the wisdom of friends to decide on a trip were the winners of the THack @ SFO this week.

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THack @ WIT – Developers, come and show what you’re made of in Singapore

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Our THack roadshow for 2012 continues – making its final stop of the year in Singapore during the annual WebInTravel conference this autumn.

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THack developer hackathon heads west to California – SFO here we come

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Can you create something amazing using travel APIs in just two weeks? But can you also do it alongside some of the smartest developers from the hottest tech region on the planet?

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Change is coming to travel technology, driven by access to data and eager developers

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Lest we forget, travel technology – for all its complexities and inherent challenges – is actually a vibrant sector and well mined by the independent developer community.

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Throwing voice search into the mix to get flight, hotel and rail results

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Voice search, to some extent, is still in its relative infancy in the travel industry despite the buzz around Apple’s Siri and the voice recognition capabilities of Google Android.

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