Travelocity has selected Hotel Booking Solutions Inc. (HBSi) to enhance the way hotels connect their systems to Travelocity’s for seamless rate and inventory management and automated booking delivery.
TripIt, the trip management company, has announced TripIt Pro, a premium service that gives frequent travelers a new level of control, convenience and peace of mind while traveling.
Google is foraying into the world of travel with the launch of Google City Tours. The feature is a Google Maps application. City Tours is a new feature that presents the user with predefined tours around specific areas.
Escapia, which provides web-based management and marketing solutions for vacation rental managers, has announced the completion of a $1.6 million round of funding. The new funding allows the company to extend its leadership in web-hosted software for vacation rental managers and to capitalize on the breakneck growth in its consumer bookings business.
Travel Ad Network (TAN), a major vertical ad network in travel and the web’s largest travel information source in total audience, has announced a partnership with www.vtravelled.com, Virgin Atlantic’s new travel website, which will be added to TAN’s portfolio of more than 200 travel planning sites reaching more than 11 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. alone.
Visual Travel Tours (VTT) has announced the launch of its website, www.VisualTravelTours.com. VTT is the first online source of professional multimedia tours purposely created for viewing via smart phones, cell phones, PDAs, mobile video players, and desk/laptops.