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Consumer Reports searched for the same itinerary at the same time on the Expedia travel site using two different browsers - Safari and Firefox. It turns out the flight was $718 lower using a Firefox browser. Yet, Expedia insists pricing is not affect ...

The mood was buoyant at the New York Times Travel show last week, which featured 500 destinations in 150 countries, but tensions in North Africa and the Middle East, soaring crude oil prices and airline fare hikes were making headlines as travel agen ...

VFM Leonardo, owner of the largest media syndication network for the travel industry, recently shared some very interesting statistics about consumer behavior in terms of hotel visual content viewing across their network.

UK-based Warner Leisure Hotels is launching a social media platform to allow their loyal guests to interact online and share their experiences with others. Users will be able join in on forums and discussions, upload and share photos, videos and text ...

Sharing holiday snaps through Facebook, the social network with over 500 million users worldwide, is not only helping people stay connected in the virtual world, but also influencing people's travels in the real world, a new Skyscanner study revealed ...

With the introduction of iFrames, Facebook Pages will become more usable and feature-heavy, with more seamless commercial transactions embedded directly, while brands will retain access to the long-tail communication and tracking that "like" enables.

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Christchurch city is without a third of its usual rooms, from hotels to backpackers, following last week's quake and in the period leading into the Rugby World Cup, according to one estimate. By Alan Wood

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, today entered a management agreement with Thai company, Elite Villa Co., Ltd, to launch the InterContinental Resort brand in Koh Samui, Thailand. IHG will ta ...

Keeping with its commitment to environmental protection and sustainability, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will participate for the fourth consecutive year in Earth Hour, a global event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to raise awareness abo ...

Spain is still Europe's most popular place to stay, according to figures released February 28 by the European Union. In total, 268 million nights were spent in Spain's hotels by travelers last year, a rise of 6.4 percent on 2009's figures ...

HotelsCombined.com has revealed the HotelsCombined.com Price IndexTM review of global hotel prices for March 2011. If you are looking for the best value accommodation deals in March, then the HotelsCombined.comTM Price Index is for you. Every month w ...

While in London this month, I couldn't resist hopping on the Eurostar to visit Paris, where I spent four months in Paris in 2009 on a writing sabbatical. Like so many others, I fell in love with the city. But my next sabbatical will take place so ...

Taking a vacation isn't exactly cheap, so what recourse do consumers have when their hotel accommodations turn out to be less than satisfactory? By Jeanine Skowronski

Global Staff Movements for February 2011 provided by Spectrum International.

With all the budget cuts the last few years, many hotels and call centers have allowed training to fall by the wayside. So a good starting place is to schedule a sales training meeting for your team. Here are some good themes.

While Google finds itself haggling with the Justice Department over ITA Software, Microsoft Bing added an autosuggest capability for flight prices based on ITA data. The new feature displays flight prices, including Bing's prediction of the best flig ...

VisitEngland and Lastminute.com have teamed up to give domestic tourism a push. February 28 will see the launch of a targeted joint marketing campaign online and off, focusing on showcasing all that England has to offer.