Off & Away, a new website where travelers can bid to win discounted hotels, launched on May 24. The first auctions featured hotel suite experiences at the Pierre New York and the Wynn Las Vegas. In the coming weeks, Off & Away said it will auction additional experiences at such brands as The London NYC, THE Hotel in Las Vegas, the Intercontinental Chicago, Chambers Hotel in New York, and many more.
iZento has introduced new trip journal designs and added helpful new agent features to these customizable travel itinerary booklets. iZento is the only itinerary building service in the marketplace today that provides time-saving tools designed specifically to help travel agents build high-quality trip journals to instantly “wow” their clients.
ExpertFlyer released its search-and-find figures for Jan. 1 through April 30, which showed it found a staggering 7,000 awards, upgrades, and preferred seats for its subscribers during the first four months of 2010, up more than 60 percent for the same period a year ago.
Orbitz Worldwide has launched AdventureFinder, a new travel website that provides instant access to the world’s leading adventure vacations. The site allows consumers to research, customize, and plan active escapes quickly and easily.
Expedia.com has opened an LGBT travel site to serve as a resource for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers. Expedia.com developed the store in partnership with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), the leading global organization dedicated to connecting businesses in the LGBT tourism industry.
CCRA Travel Solutions has enhanced the CCRAtravel.com hotel booking portal to gain a competitive edge and earn more profits faster. The new features that make this web-based hotel content provider the perfect solution for smaller agencies and home-based agents.