Online Travel News

Aesthetics for its own sake, for once, wins out here. Solar's $0.99 app replaces the weatherman's charts with an art gallery in your hand.

From shutting down Twitter accounts of critics to banning non-McDonalds french fries (unless sold with fish), this year's games have done an admirable job meeting the needs of corporate sponsors. But what about everyone else?

Small travel agencies have long complained that pricing agreements between large hotel chains and the OTAs limit how they can price rooms, and it looks like someone is finally listening.

Vacation is supposedly a time to disconnect from technology, but this break out of the $162 billion online travel industry shows how broadly we depend on internet from pre-trip planning to post-trip photo sharing.

From outward appearance, Expedia's new Traveler Preference program introduces more choice and appears to be a great thing for hotel guests.

First Spirit & Southwest lost the advertising full fare ruling earlier last week, and now this. DoT is serious about this, the sooner airlines/OTAs get this, the better.

Ever since its split with TripAdvisor, Expedia's moved quickly ahead, both to reinvent itself as the most social of the OTAs to one that's likely the only challenger to Priceline's suite of sites.

Car sharing services face their biggest challenges from gaining legitimacy from wary consumers as well as major players, such as the insurance industry. Backing from a car manufacturer goes a long way towards improving the odds on both of those.

Stephen Kaufer isn't going to be the most popular guy on Wall Street, but TripAdvisor's attempt to crunch user data and pour money into Facebook marketing to get better conversions for advertising partners, looks like a sage move. If analysts, looking for immediate results, don't like it, they can always write a review.

After high profile customer account hacks like LinkedIn and Yahoo, could jetBlue be next? Likely this attention means the company will hopefully move fast.