Yapta.com, which monitors airfare and hotel prices for travelers, has announced that it’s now tracking prices and issuing airfare savings alerts on flights from nine additional international carriers, including Aeromexico, Air India, Air Jamaica, Air New Zealand, China Airlines, Emirates, El Al Airlines, Korean Air and Qantas Airways.
Zagat Survey and lastminute.com, two of the world’s leading providers of online travel and leisure information, has released nru for Android –Zagat’s first-ever free mobile application.
TripAdvisor has launched a Business Travel Center, a full-service business trip planning resource covering more than 20,000 hotels in more than 750 cities worldwide.
E-site Marketing, a Sabre Holdings company and the Internet marketing arm of SynXis, has introduced its Mobile Website solution that gives hotel properties and chains a simple and affordable way to capture the growing number of consumers using mobile devices.
Tripbase has launched three travel widgets: the Daily Costs Calculator, Weather and Season Predictor and Travel Picture of the Day. Last month, Tripbase, a discovery engine for personalized vacation ideas, had raised $2 million in Series A financing.
ResortsandLodges.com is launching a new platform, Ask the Expert, that allows destinations, CVBs and travel agents to have a branded presence on its site and real-time interaction with its 10.5 million visitors, who are active travelers looking to plan a trip.