23/08/2010 16:01
World Travel Market is expanding its technology seminar program for 2010 with the introduction of a presentation theatre on the exhibition floor within the technology and online travel section.
It’s the first time a conference venue has been positioned on the World Travel Market (WTM) exhibition...
04/08/2010 14:14
E-mail, it seems, has become yesterday's news. While checking e-mail used to be our primary reason for going online, we now devote more of our online time to surfing social networks, according to new numbers from Nielsen.
We spend 23 percent of our online time surfing around social networks...
04/08/2010 14:10
European consumers were almost 3 times as likely to accessed travel services via a browser, compared to an application. However, accessing travel sites via application is growing fastest of the three methods when compared to one year ago.
The European Union has finalised new roaming...
21/07/2010 12:22
Reports are now showing that British Airways is the latest airline to join the growing technological revolution. This happened as British Airways announced the launch of an application allowing its passengers to check-in via their smart phones.
This new move will allow members of the British...
21/07/2010 11:09
Google has found an intelligent way to arrange the results for a search query.
But an interesting question is - where we can find that intelligence? A lot of people have conducted research into the indexing process and even more have tested ranking factors on their weight, but we wondered...
13/07/2010 14:50
Travelocity’s most recent poll shows more than half of all travellers share vacation information through social media. Nearly 30 percent of travellers have either never thought about precautions or do not take any precautions when posting about vacation on social media websites.
With...
12/07/2010 17:36
Passport Online Inc. has introduced Agent SociaLink, a new content service that helps agents populate their travel agent social media sites using a clickable database of content. Agent SociaLink is a proprietary website designed by Passport’s marketing, customer service and support...
12/07/2010 16:24
Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism marketing organization, has launched a new initiative offering all Florida tourism businesses the opportunity to be listed for free on its www.visitflorida.com website.
Visit Florida announced the offer July 9 in light of the impact from the...
18/06/2010 21:24
A Nielsen study shows Internet users spent an average of more than 6 hours a month on sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter during May.
U.S. consumers are spending more time online -- and devoting a growing percentage of those hours to social networking sites -- a trend expected to...
02/06/2010 12:48
Microsoft and Expedia.co.uk have unveiled a dedicated web browser for travellers enabling them to book direct from their browser.
The new Expedia.co.uk version of Internet Explorer 8 will offer surfers up to date information on travel deals, additional functions to help navigate around sites...
Visitor's arrivals from Japan and the United States are starting to make a comeback. Tourism Fiji chief executive Jo Tuamoto said figures had improved over the past three months.
