Online travel booking firms including Orbitz and Expedia are asking Congress to resolve in their favor a legal dispute with cities and counties over hotel occupancy taxes.

As the new year gets underway and the Spring Festival approaches, many travelers are considering where to spend their time off in the months to come. As airlines continue to cut prices and travel bure

South Putuo Temple is situated at the foot of Wulao Peak at the southern end of Xiamen City, Fujian Province. First built in the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.-907A.D.), it was restored many times in several

Kunming---the most pleasant climate Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, with a history of more than 2400 years, owes its importance to the fact that it was the gateway to the celebrated Silk Road t

The toolkit offers three new ways to look for deals, including: An on-site tool that walks through a customer’s preferences and returns the best deals, customized for them, a tool that shows the best deals on a map, and a tool that can be downloaded onto a customer’s desktop and feeds deal updates.

PhoCusWright released what the company calls the most comprehensive study done to date on the Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) that provide much of the electronic infrastructure behind airline

The newest addition to Google Labs is a mashup of Google Images, Google Similar Images and the visual query refinement tool, the Google Wonder Wheel. Called Google Image Swirl, the new tool clusters similar images based on characteristics found in both the text surrounding images.

There's no escaping it, marketers: Amid a flurry of headlines, bestsellers, and reports documenting social media's meteoric rise to the mainstream... the future has arrived. Here is a 10-step guide to embrace it.

Marriott has unveiled the new look of Marriott.com, the world's 7th largest online consumer retail site, according to Internet Retailer. The improvements include a modernized look and feel, more intuitive layout, and one-click guest access to their Marriott Rewards® account from anywhere in the site.

It's forecast time in the travel industry, the time of year the big players reveal their visions for the coming 12 months. For business travel, some of the future is already here; many travel managers have already negotiated deals for the coming year, setting the trends in advance.

Amadeus launched a new Internet booking system that aims to boost airline ticket sales by letting consumers search more naturally than current systems allow. The new service is offered through airlines and online travel portals, with Deutsche Lufthansa AG being the first customer

The new TripAdvisor Business Listings enables hoteliers to provide direct contact information - including hotel website URL - to their properties on all TripAdvisor sites around the world. The listings are sold on a flat-fee subscription basis, with a cost that varies according to a hotel's number of rooms. One-year subscriptions begin at $600 per year in the U.S..

Whether you are designing a new website, re-architecting an existing domain, or fixing user experience issues, site navigation plays a major role in overall user experience and conversions.

While social media often commands favorable media attention, the less often told story is that successful initiatives are rare to come by and that there are still a number of organizational roadblocks that managers need to overcome in order to make progress.

High spending business clients have yet to return to InterContinental Hotels in any great numbers, and the shortfall is not being made up by leisure customers, judging by its latest update.

The hotel comparison tool allows users to search over 200,000 hotels to find the best deals and is now available in 20 languages.

Travelers young and old are increasingly using mobile devices for flight notification, check in, and seat selection, and are also willing to accept advertising with free travel applications.

OTAs have long touted what has become known in the industry as "the billboard effect" whereby they have claimed that positioning on their sites generates not only bookings through the OTA but also a halo effect on the hotels' own sites by generating brand awareness.

Starting immediately, users of LinkedIn and Twitter can cross-file to each other's services, by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn.

Email marketers often fall prey to the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. After a while, email becomes, well, boring - also known as the flipside of reliable. Here are a few simple tricks that can enliven an email program gone stale.

AAHOA is opposing any attempts by the OTAs to compel hotel owners to relinquish control of their room inventory and their pricing in exchange for a listing on the OTA websites, because this will harm the hoteliers, the hotel brands and the traveling public, the association says.

Many travelers plan to take car trips, stay with friends and family and spend less - bad news for the struggling industries, writes the Los Angeles Times.

Priceline.com's third-quarter earnings nearly quadrupled amid a tax-related gain while bookings rose by one-third and results trumped the company's already-optimistic expectations.

The staycation still rules as most US Internet users opt not to travel for the holidays this year. While 52% told About.com that, like in 2008, they would not travel this holiday season, another 24% said they were even less likely to travel this year than last.

Orbitz posted a quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by lower expenses and more bookings, and said it had received equity investments amounting to $100 million. The company said fee cuts and promotions offset weak demand during the economic recession but that travel demand is starting to recover on its own.