Gogobot completes $15m funding round...
Menlo Park, California-based social travel site Gogobot has completed a $15 million round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Battery Ventures and Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund. Gogobot will use this new financing to expand its global footprint through...
US airlines collected $1.5b from fees in Q2...
US airlines collected $1.5 billion from baggage fees and reservation change fees in the second quarter of 2011, according to the airline financial data released by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The largest network, low-cost...
IHG brings back its Twitter exclusive Black Friday Offer...
InterContinental Hotels Group’s (IHG) Twitter-exclusive travel deal - the largest offered in the hotel industry for Black Friday – is back again to kick off the holiday travel season. The group says it is spreading holiday cheer early this year...
Group buying sites respond to the popularity of travel deals in Australia...
A new market report in Australia has indicated that multinational group buying sites are driving strong industry growth with LivingSocial and Groupon growing 75 percent and 118 percent in the third quarter, respectively. Travel deals now account for 24 percent...
Google announces usage limits to the Maps API...
Google has chosen to limit usage of its Maps application programming interface (API) starting next year. Starting January 1, 2012, Google will start charging for its Google Maps API service to third-party websites that load it more than 25000 times...
Bringing Internet users closer to hotels’ official website...
FastBooking has introduced a new offering for independent hotels and independent hotel groups in FastBooking Direct Link. According to FastBooking, a single click on the ‘check rates’ button brings Internet users from partner sites to a special page on the...
Travelport introduces ‘Lowest Public Rate’ hotel programme...
Travelport has recently launched a new hotel programme that gives Travelport GDS-connected travel agents guaranteed access to the lowest publicly available rates from a wide range of global hotel groups. The offering has been launched recently on both the Galileo...
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