In celebration of how far technology has come, inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell returned to his hometown this month, to attend the launch of the most extensive, interactive tourist guide App available for the city – Digi-Guide Edinburgh.

Lancashire’s Tourism bosses are using groundbreaking technology to bring the seaside resort into the homes of British holidaymakers.

Online specialists Intelligent Leisure Solutions (ILS3) and the Discover.Travel Group are blazing a new trail in providing highly-personalized travel solutions to South and Central America. BTN discovers more about their innovative strategies that are making them leaders in these regions.

A new travel search engine has launched that claims set a new precedent for online travel search technology, including “equal or better fares” than its rivals. nowfly.co.uk also promises to overhaul the standards of speed and accuracy.

Cendant the conglomerate that recently acquired Orbitz, ebookers, Gullivers, was named “World’s Leading Travel Distribution Services Provider” at the World Travel Awards beating off competition from InterActiveCorp and Sabre Travel Network.

Extensity, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based operational cost management applications, along with VISA USA, Deloitte & Touche, Internet Travel Network (ITN) and Cisco Systems, will sponsor six free seminars in April and May on Travel & Entertainment (T&E) Management Best Practices. During the half-day seminars, financial and travel managers will learn how Internet-based automation can help them achieve optimal efficiency and realize significant bottom-line savings in processing T&E costs, which represent the third-largest non-production cost facing corporations. Leading travel, accounting, and software vendors will discuss best practices for T&E management, and representatives from major corporations will discuss their own experiences, and financial results, with T&E automation.