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Travelport Adds NTV Italian High Speed Rail

Aleksandr Shatskih

Some good news from Travelport, clients will now be able to book rail travel on the much talked about Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), the first Italian private high-speed railway. The strategic partnership tells of NTV distribution via Galileo-connected travel agencies in Italy and around the world.

14 years ago

Google Flight Search Moves to Mobile

Aleksandr Shatskih

Good news for the die hard Google user, the world’s biggest Internet player has just announced Google Flight Search for Android and iOS devices. The company says these mobile variants offer all the functionality and benefits of the desktop platform. According to a post on the official Google blog, since launching Flight Search back in […]

14 years ago

New Tour and Activity Platform Rezdy to Go

Aleksandr Shatskih

Tour and activity operators might be interested in giving this one a try. A new online booking engine start-up is hoping to revolutionize the activities industry and help operators to boost their internet bookings like never before.

14 years ago

trivago Report: European Hotel Prices Drop

Aleksandr Shatskih

European hotels are reporting their lowest recorded prices in years. These are the findings of the trivago Hotel Price Index (tHPI) prepared each month by the hotel price comparison website www.trivago.co.uk.

14 years ago

Selected London Hotel Images from Google Plus

Phil Butler

Reading the Google News ticker this morning we ran into some extraordinary images via hotel pages on G +, so we thought we would share. For the travel enthusiast, there is perhaps no imagery more effective than the views of and from a hotel. For the hotelier, imagery is certainly the Holy Grail of media. Let’s look at some extraordinary examples from random hotels.

14 years ago

Travel Light with FlyMy.co.uk Baggage Couriers

Aleksandr Shatskih

Good news for all those frequent flyers who are sick of kicking their heels, wasting time at the airport with nothing to do. Hours of endlessly waiting at the baggage carousel, or standing in line at the check-in counter could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a great new idea from UK-based travel start-up FlyMy.co.uk.

14 years ago

Mobile Browsing on Travel Sites up by 72%

Aleksandr Shatskih

Travel website traffic via the mobile web has increased by a staggering 72% in the last six months, to account for a total of 17.4% of all website traffic in the industry, leading some experts to suggest that the end of the PC’s era of dominance is nigh.

14 years ago

Expedia Profits Slow: Shares Drop

Aleksandr Shatskih

The financials are in from Expedia. According to the reports, wile quarter 4 revenue was up by 6.7% at $787.1 million compared with the previous year, expenses took their toll virtually eliminating and growth for 2011.

14 years ago

Vayant Breaks Sub-Second Barrier in Flight Search

Aleksandr Shatskih

Vayant Travel Technologies, the online airfare shopping specialists, have announced that they are now capable of delivering sub-second search results through their new FastSearch solution technology, unveiled at this week’s Travel Technology Europe 2012 exhibition.

14 years ago

Kayak Dumps BlackBerry in Graveyard

Aleksandr Shatskih

The popular travel application Kayak, which has helped many a traveler out of a tight spot somewhere down the line, has hammered yet another nail in the coffin of BlackBerry, announcing that it will no longer be providing support or updates for the app on their mobile devices.

14 years ago

Corporate Enterprises’ Im-mobile Travel Policies

Aleksandr Shatskih

As global enterprise continues to grow and vast numbers of corporate employees embark on business-related trips, a new survey has revealed that the majority of businesses are missing the boat when it comes to travel advice.

14 years ago

JetBlue Enhance Website, Release iPhone App

Aleksandr Shatskih

Snazzy mobile apps and clean, polished websites are no longer the sole domain of travel search engines. Not now that JetBlue Airways has launched its brand new, native app on the iPhone, which allows users to search for flights and make bookings on the go.

14 years ago

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