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Sabre and Google Develop Industry-First AI Technology for Travel

Sabre Corporation and Google have jointly developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technology platform.

TripAdvisor Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Transparency Report

TripAdvisor® has published its first-ever Review Transparency Report showing over 1m fake reviews being blocked from the site in 2018.

Google Maps Helps You Roll-on Thanksgiving Travel

The folks at Google are trying to solve for "X" again with a Google Maps feature called "Mapping Thanksgiving."

City Mapper: An Idea Worth the Big VC Bucks

Tnooz reported last week the urban transport app Citymapper having received Series A funding from Balderton Capital and other VC…

Google Refines Top City Attractions Search Results

With this move, Google rendered SEO useless. Frommer's, Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor, Nileguide, Virtual Tourist, Igougo and so on are now…

Big OTAs and Big Hotels in Price Fixing Lawsuit

A federal lawsuit naming the likes of Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Travelocity, Trump International Hotels Management, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Sabre Holdings, Priceline,…

Should Google Buy Travelzoo?

What could Google do with Travelzoo (NASDAQ:TZOO)? This is the question some insiders may be asking if reports of the…

Google Search: Concerts & Mind’s Eye Travel Boosts

Google's seemingly never ending list of improvements and refinements to search received the latest "tweak" with concert information in real…

Google Flight Search Moves to Mobile

Good news for the die hard Google user, the world's biggest Internet player has just announced Google Flight Search for…

Who’s the Big Bad Wolf of Hotel Marketing?

Just out, the Distribution Channel Analysis study via the American Hotel Lodging Association (AH&LA) and STR, has been released. The…

Google Hotel Finder Adds “Search by Travel Time”

Google Hotel Finder has finally rolled out some of its much-anticipated 'innovation', in the form of a new search parameter…

HotelMaps: Clean, Clear Alternative for Hotel Finding

Sparkly clean accomodation finder HotelMaps is a welcome surprise to the space being dominated by Google and Hipmunk currently. The…

Will Expedia’s “Verified” Reviews Fly?

Last week, Danny King over at Travel Weekly hit the nail on the head with his assessment of Expedia's so…

Twigmore Puts People First in Travel

A new startup called Twigmore is aimed directly at putting people and their real impressions of "places" in the correct…

WTM: 2011 Money Generation Machine

Travel Daily News reported this morning, the start of this week's World Travel Market in London, the leading worldwide travel…

Zagat: Defining Move of Google’s Travel Strategy

The highly anticipated New York City restaurant guides are out now. A story about his by Garth Johnston of the…

Starwood Hotels & Resorts: The Luxury You’d Expect

Starwood Hotels' Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts has released a limited edition US destination guide published by Assouline. Part of…

Gowalla: Will It Be Google’s Next Announcement?

It was inevitable once Google announced they were to acquire Zagat, the race for lost applications to engage travel. TechCrunch…

Google Restaurant Finder? Well, Not Quite Yet

Google's head of Local, Maps and Location Services, Marissa Mayer, just announced the acquisition of Zagat, publisher of worldwide restaurant…

TripAdvisor’s Fake Reviews Sickness Goes Critical

TripAdvisor, the leading online travel reviews site in the world, is now under investigation by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority…