Carbon offsetting was all the rage a few years back – at least in terms of PR and new initiatives – until the economy started biting and travel companies and consumers focused elsewhere.
TripAdvisor adds rail into flight metasearch channel
July 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
Interesting ramping up of metasearch services from TripAdvisor today with the addition of European rail services to its existing flight metasearch engine.
Car maker launches door-to-door travel search website
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
French car manufacturing giant Citroen will today launch a new multi-modal travel comparison site called Multicity.
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Skyscanner buys door-to-door travel search startup Zoombu
January 16, 2011 By 8 Comments
Fledgling door-to-door metasearch company Zoombu has sold to Skyscanner in an disclosed cash and shares deal.
Tnooz launches THack in London
January 10, 2011 By
Tnooz is launching the travel industry’s first official Hack event, taking place in London in the coming weeks and culminating at the Travel Technology Europe show.
Great way to search yet five big challenges for door-to-door site Zoombu
June 7, 2010 By 12 Comments
I am a sucker for a new way to do online travel search.
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Zoombu finally opens its tightly locked doors to the public
April 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Fledgling metasearch engine Zoombu, which has been in private beta for months, has drawn back the curtains to finally reveal its product to the wider world.
Zoombu almost comes out of Beta with offshoot site for ski trips
January 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
Oxford, UK-based meta site Zoombu is almost ready to reveal all to the wider world with the launch of an overhauled micro-version of the main site for skiiers.
TravelFusion plugs maps into door-to-door metasearch
January 27, 2010 By 5 Comments
Fresh from launching a service to allow users to get detailed search results based on their physical location instead of just nearest airport, Travelfusion has also integrated a mapping device.
The UK-based consumer-facing and B2B metasearch engine now allows users to select any location on a Google map for the From and To fields of a trip.
The map automatically works out the postcodes/zipcodes and then returns results based on the point-to-point parameters.
Zoombu business closes six-figure pound funding round
December 15, 2009 By 3 Comments
Startup metasearch site Zoombu has finalised a six-figure funding round courtesy of an Oxford, UK-based investment group.
The company won a competition run the Saïd Business School Venture Fund in May this year to share a funding pot to tune of £1 million alongside health startup Altitude Medical.
Zoombu says the investment will be put to expanding the small team and quickening its product pipeline.
