Travel Industry News - Internet

(Derived from Spanish Rapido=Rapid, Zumbido=Buzz) generates rapid buzz for hotels, airlines and online travel agents (OTAs) on social networks - More

Facebook Places lets mobile device owners with Facebook accounts share their exact location and find the whereabouts of their friends. The free service, starting to roll out now, can be accessed from iPhone, iPod Touch, Android devices, BlackBerry Torch and the iPad. - More

Welcome to Facebook — population 500 million. That’s about as many users as there are females in India. So it's not surprising that companies would get around to exploiting the house that Mark Zuckerberg built sooner or later. That goes triple for travel-related industries, whose clientele tend to be extremely active on social network... - More

Starwood is the First Global Hospitality Company to Offer Comprehensive Online Travel Booking in Portuguese, ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil - More

Launched earlier this year in beta as a powerful, easy to use flights search first in the UK and then in Germany, zugu is now also available in the U.S. All three sites will help users find great hotel deals in one single site, while zugu.co.uk users can enjoy both hotels and car hire search. - More

Brooklyn Hotel Partners with Dallas-based WRS for Design, Content and SEO - More

Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global Internet media company, announced that it now has more than 2 million unduplicated subscribers to its UK publications, including the Travelzoo Top 20® and Newsflash™ email alert service. In the past twelve months, Travelzoo® added more than 530,000 subscribers in the UK, an annual increase of 36%. - More

Orbitz now enables detailed side-by-side hotel comparisons upfront on the search results page - More

Undercover Tourist’s Launches Updated iPhone Application - More

Masan, South Korea takes spot for fastest city in the world Russia remains the top attack traffic source, followed by U.S. and China Majority of mobile providers achieve average maximum speeds greater than 2 Mbps - More