Hickory Travel Systems and eTravCo announced the formation of a worldwide travel agent network that will be a market-leading travel service provider based on Hickory Travel System’s corporate travel services and eTravCo’s leisure travel consortium.

LAN Airline has launched LAN for Business, a new online booking engine designed to allow small and medium businesses to purchase and reserve airline tickets with a few easy clicks. This tool has been specifically created to satisfy the administrative and management expectations when booking business travel.

Passengers traveling on Virgin Atlantic, one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, can now book Eurostar tickets for onward high-speed journeys between London, Paris and Brussels. Virgin Atlantic is the first airline in the world to implement an e-ticketing agreement with Eurostar, enabling passengers to travel seamlessly between London and Paris or Brussels.

Funjet Vacations has added a new suite of marketing and selling tools its Funjet Agent Advantage website (FAA), its marketing and communications online resource center. Included are a “Marketing By Vacation Experiences” section, enhanced 2010 product information and new training videos.

Pegasus, which processes electronic hotel transactions, has introduced a monthly hospitality industry trends report called “The Pegasus View,” currently available online. Pegasus houses the industry’s broadest view of global hospitality industry data. Pegasus connects more than 90,000 hotels to each of the four global distribution systems (GDSs), as well as the majority of corporate travel agencies and thousands of alternative distribution systems (ADSs).

LuvTrip.com, a new niche player in the travel industry, said it will provide planning and self-booking for romance-based vacations. Highlighted worldwide events are honeymoons, destination weddings, weekend getaways, anniversaries and romantic adventures.