Travel Industry News - Internet

Expedia.com announced a thorough overhaul of its hotel reviews feature, incorporating new improvements that will make its collection of verified hotel reviews more accessible and relevant to prospective travelers.

TravelTipping’s new website offering vacation deals at 30-75% off published rates, marks its public launch by combining the two common maxims held by all true travelers.

New web coding practice will automatically convert websites for viewing on a variety of devices from cell phones to tablets.

TripAdvisor.co.uk and Superbreak.com have dropped off the rankings of the ten most visible sites for hotel-related searches, according to the latest research, ‘Hotels Sector Report - Issue 13’, by leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight.

Dana Communications recently developed a new website for Kuoni Destination Management USA, the largest wholly owned, multi-destination DMC group in the U.S.

The Alabama Supreme Court and the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Leon County ruled decisively in favor of online travel companies, affirming once again that online travel companies (OTCs) are not subject to the application of lodgings taxes to their services.

Unlike other travel sites, these reviews come from just two travelers

World Rainbow Hotels (WRH), the gay & lesbian travel organization which made the headlines two years ago as the first ever supplier of gay-friendly hotels on the GDS, launched an online booking platform for travel agents on Oct. 1, 2012.

euromic recently launched a mobile friendly version of its website tailored for use with tablets, smart-phones and other mobile technology

International SEO is a topic I haven’t seen much written about lately, but it’s becoming more and more important in this always on, highly mobile culture of ours. In fact while the percentage of English speaking Internet users grew around 300% from 2000-2001, the percentages of Chinese and Spanish speaking users grew by 1,478% and 807% respectively. Any brand hoping to capture some of this international business clearly needs a solid strategy.