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Bing-Kayak: Travel Search or Dumb Meets Dumber?

2011-03-06 by Phil Butler

Barney Pell up the Amazon in 2008

The still raging war for online travel supremacy continues with news from Microsoft and Kayak. The pending sale of ITA to Google has spurred some fairly ridiculous allegiances and deals, not the least of which is the latest Bing “slash” Kayak pairing. Let’s face it, Microsoft has already spent two king’s ransoms trying to beat Google, and now this?

Tags: Barney Pell, Bill Gates, BIng, Bing travel, Google, Google Travel, ITA, ITA software, Kayak, Microsoft, online travel, OTA, Powermouse, search engines, travel conversions, travel search, travel wars

The Merlion Hotel Is Fully Booked (Singapore Biennale 2011)

2011-03-02 by Phil Butler

Tatzu Nishi's Merlion Hotel - a temporary hotel for the Singapore Biennale 2011.

The Merlion Hotel will only open for overnight guests from April 4 to May 5. The cost for accommodation was established at $150 nett per night.

Tags: Singapore Biennale 2011, Tatzu Nishi, the merlion hotel

US Airways Sabre Deal Calms Travel War Waters

2011-03-01 by Phil Butler

Cartoon travel help Bing

In airline travel news, US Airways just announced the signing of a multi year contract for full content distribution and merchandising with Sabre Travel Network. This latest news, pertinent to the ongoing wars between the various online agents and service providers, is at least a positive sign for global distribution players.

Tags: add ons, Air New Zealand, airline tickets, airline travel, Amadeus, ancillary services, BIng, British Airways, Delta-Northwest, GDS, Google Travel, Greg Webb, Microsoft, online travel, OTA's, Porter Airlines, Qantas, Sabre GDS, Sabre holdings, United Airlines, US Airways, Virgin America, WestJet, world airlines

European Capital of Culture: Spotlight Burgos

2011-02-24 by Phil Butler

The incomperable Catedral de Burgos

Every year The Council of the European Union selects two cities to act as the European Capitals of Culture. For 2011 those cities are Tallinn in Estonia, and Turku in Finland. But, the process for cities being selected actually began several years ago. In keeping with the process, future cities are due to be selected later this year – to represent the European Union in 2016 and onward.

Tags: Burgos, Burgos Cathedral, Burgos UNESCO, Castile, Count of Castile, Europe culture, European Capitals of Culture, European Union, Guimarães, Kosice, Marseille, Mons, Queso de Burgos, R-evolution, Riga, Rome, Spain culture, Tallinn, Turku, Umeå, UNSESCO, Visigoths

Tribute to A Sci-Fi Legend: Ion Hobana

2011-02-24 by Phil Butler

Ion Hobana

In honor of one of Romania’s and the world’s great writers, Ion Hobana, who made my lovely wife’s childhood that much more rich, I dedicate this short tribute.

Ion Hobana (lower left), 80, died of cancer on yesterday, February 22, 2011 in Bucharest. Hobana was Romania’s best most widely known Science Fiction writer, for Romanians and people around the world, a artist of the perhaps, even the inevitable.

Tags: H.G. Wells, Ion Hobana, Jules Verne, literature, literature greats, Possible images, Romania authors, Romania literary greats, Romania people, Romanian literary giants, Romanian writers, Sannicolau Mare, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, The future started yesterday, Timisoara, UFO's

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