Travel Technology News

TripAdvisor, today announced the launch of the TripAdvisor Management Dashboard, a new analytics service that summarises a business's performance on TripAdvisor at a glance.

Amadeus has announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Commission to participate in the “Low Season Tourism” initiative aimed at increasing the travel flow between Europe and other territories. The pilot project will be launched with South America and is expected to be extended to other regions in the future.

A flight comparison site has revealed the funniest complaints it received regarding airlines throughout the past 12 months; including bizarre complaints surrounding ‘poor mobile phone signal’ throughout the flight, and air stewardesses who didn’t look enough like ‘page 3 models’.

HotelTravel.com doubled its online hotel inventory during 2011, adding tens of thousands of new hotels in fabulous travel destinations worldwide, offering its customers more choice than ever before.

Eversave, the third largest daily deal site in the U.S., has expanded its Eversave Travel site to include features from highly rated resorts and hotels in the Caribbean island region. The travel site, which has been part of the daily deal travel marketplace for the past six months, has already generated over 15,000 incremental room nights for its partners.

Travelport has signed a historic distributor agreement with Satguru Travel & Tourism which will enable the GDS to grow its African network from 27 to 41 countries and grow its existing GDS operations in a further two.

A new report sponsored by Amadeus has called on the international rail industry to embrace a shared approach to customer IT systems in order to meet the multiple challenges of growing passenger numbers, increasing financial pressures and rising customer expectations.

SITA has taken the air transport industry a step closer to introducing near field communication (NFC) technology with the unveiling of the first proof-of-concept which uses the NFC chip inside smartphones. This SIM-based proof-of-concept demonstrates how passengers' journeys through the airport can become much smoother as they use their NFC-enabled phone to simply "tap and check-in" or "tap and board" their flight.

Based on actual 2011 site visits, CaribbeanWeddings.com® reached over 350,000 unique visitors in 2011, all of whom are seriously interested in getting married and taking their honeymoons in the Caribbean. CaribbeanWeddings.com® is the #1 source for information when a couple is planning their wedding and honeymoon.

The AskMeInc marketing team is visiting more than 1,000 travel agents in the first quarter, promoting hotels, destinations and niche markets and learning more about what the agents and their clients are looking for in 2012.

Holiday Hypermarket, a UK based holiday comparison community, say that they have seen a surge in holiday bookings after relaunching their website mid-December. According to data collected by Holiday Hypermarket, there was a week-to-week increase of 26 per cent in bookings for holidays to Tenerife and other destinations offered by the holiday comparison community