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TravelAvenue Shows Some Scenic Dead Ends

Phil Butler

TravelAvenue, a startup focused on image oriented share for travel, is a Pinterest-ish development travelers may want to watch. We gave the product the once over this morning, here’s what we discovered.

Treovi Opens: Just Book!

Phil Butler

A couple of weeks ago we announced hotels could load their inventory onto Treovi. Yesterday the Swiss startup announced having opened their beta doors to guests, inviting the world to not only search desired destination hotels, but to just plain “book!” This niche of travel booking entities is growing pretty fast, but Treovi thinks their model is the only truly free one.

The Basics of Mobile Navigation

Guest Author

Where is your mobile phone right now? If it is within five feet of your person, you are like most of the people in the world today. While it used to be a rarity to find someone with a cell phone, it is now almost impossible to find someone without one. Even many kids have their own phones these days, as their parents equip them for emergencies, and make it easier to keep track of their whereabouts.

Holiday Planning On Twitter

Guest Author

By using Twitter to help you with your holiday planning, you will be able to avoid unpleasant surprises, inform yourself about great places to go and even get in touch with some nice people to meet.

Three Great Hotels That Could Use A Website

Phil Butler

One of the most crucial aspects of any online business is the landing page of the website. Nowhere is this more crucial than for any hospitality company, and in particular hoteliers. We have typed ourselves to bloody fingers, talked ourselves blue in the face, but still even wonderfully lavish hotels offer up hamburger to their prime rib consuming visitors.

TomTom Helps You Around London During Olympic Traffic

Aleksandr Shatskih

TomTom’s enhanced Map Share service aims to help drivers in the London area void travel disruptions. A new map task force processes map changes related to temporary road closures, changes in traffic flow and additional turn restrictions in real-time. TomTom map experts will process map changes in and around London throughout the Summer sporting season. […]

Hotelogix 2.0 – Managing Help for Managers

Aleksandr Shatskih

Hotelogix’s launch of feature-enriched Hotelogix 2.0, is cause for some cheers from hotel owners and managers alike. The news variant of the already widely accepted admin platform, carries not only ramped up channel management, but multi-lingual support too.

Lifestyle Hotels & Other Booking Filters

Phil Butler

Are you looking for something or someone to filter your digital world? Argo Travel News takes a look at another travel accommodation filtering channel, Lifestyle Hotels, with mentions of a few others. If ever there were a need for good suggestion engines, the travel space is in dire need. How do you decide where to go, where to stay, what to do? Let’s look at regional players in travel booking.