Best Western International has launched a marketing initiative in order to determine the next Best Western iPhone application feature.
Venere.com, a leading European online travel agency, has put together a mini guide to Europe’s most beautiful cities. The guide emphasizes the best places to spot or use the same restaurants as celebrities, trendy places where they can be spotted and hotels that best represent them.
American Airlines plans to deal directly with corporate travel managers and is attempting to cut out the middleman by putting up pay wall for Global Distribution Systems, Online Travel Agents and Travel Management Companies (TMCs) to access the content on AA.com.
Lufthansa has introduced a mobile-friendly version of its MySkyStatus social networking tool, which automatically sends flight status updates to users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts as well as through personalized emails.
American Airlines has enhanced its online flight check-in process that provides online check-in capability for passengers traveling internationally. Through online flight check-in at AA.com, customers traveling both domestically, and now internationally, can check in for their flight and subsequently print or e-mail their boarding pass, from anywhere in the world.
TRX, Inc., has introduced Hotel Property Normalization. It provides travel and expense managers with improved reporting data, ensuring that no matter where the hotel spend data originates, costs on a property-by-property basis are correctly assigned as part of the TravelTrax reporting solution.




