The U.S. Tour Operators Association upgraded its website to help travel agents plan vacations through the association’s member tour operators. The newly revamped USTOA web site --www.ustoa.com or www.ustoa.travel-- provides a one-stop database on the association’s 150 brands, searchable by destination, activity or type of travel.
Rebounding from last year’s negative press surrounding health scares and unrest along its border, Mexico tourism is recovering, attracting customers with travel deals and reclaiming its rank as a top vacation spot. Travelocity’s Spring Break Travel Report shows that travelers are returning to spots such as Cancun, which climbed from the number 10 spring break spot last year to the number five spot this year.
Travel search engine Kayak.com has introduced a new version of its Kayak for iPhone application that integrates the site’s baggage fees tool. The updated application also adds new flight, hotel, and car rental search capabilities.
Travel agents will soon face competition from yet another electronic medium as Voyage.tv’s destination programming for cable operators evolves into an interactive technology capable of selling trips with the click of a consumer’s TV remote.
Viator.com, the leading resource for researching and booking more than 5,500 trip activities and experiences in 75 countries at the best prices, today announced the debut of four new European local-language sites: viatorcom.dk in Danish, viatorcom.nl in Dutch, viatorcom.no in Norwegian and viatorcom.se in Swedish.
AT&T Interactive and Expedia have signed a distribution agreement to complement local information with hotel-booking features. The two companies will help travelers in checking hotel rates, room availability and also book rooms on AT&T Interactive’s yellowpages.com and YP.com local search websites.