06/04/2011

News Update - April 6, 2011

Source: m-travel.com...

How easyJet Holidays plans to differentiate its offering?...
Low-cost airlines across the world are increasingly looking at new avenues to grow their ancillary revenues. By Ritesh Gupta One of the major players in easyJet, which recently launched EasyJet Holidays in conjunction with the UK-based online travel company Lowcosttravelgroup,...

Cheapflights takes cue from the “Be Inspired” tab on its site for Facebook app...
Cheapflights says it is lending a new dimension to the whole experience of trip planning. The company has worked on a new Facebook-related offering. According to Cheapflights, now with its Travel Inspiration application, its Facebook users in the US, UK...

Mobissimo to publishes airfare alerts on Facebook...
Travel search engine Mobissimo has launched a travel dashboard on Facebook that allows anyone with a Facebook page to create personalised fare indexes with fare alerts that track airfare price changes. With Mobissimo’s Facebook app, users can search and monitor...

HouseTrip raises $2.7m, strengthens team...
European holiday apartment booking website HouseTrip has attracted $2.7m in Series-A venture capital funding from Index Ventures. HouseTrip.com’s offering: when taking a trip, anyone can book a whole apartment or villa for the price of a hotel room. The company...

Booking multi-night stays via mobile hotel booking app...
HotelTonight, a mobile-exclusive hotel booking app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, has updated its last-second hotel booking app to allow users to extend their same-day booking by up to four nights. The made-for-mobile travel app, launched earlier this year,...

hotelicopter raises $1.5 million...
Charlottesville, Virginia-based hotel search and direct connect platform hotelicopter has raised $1.5 million. This funding has taken the company’s total capital raised to date to $5 million. The company says it will use this capital to continue investing in and...

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