Kayak has introduced a new iPhone application, which enables users to search more than 200 travel sites for rates and availability for flights and hotels from anywhere in the world.
Travelocity has announced a “Fee-Free, Worry-Free Travel” promotion that eliminates Travelocity flight booking fees for all domestic and international flights and also includes Travelocity PriceGuardian for vacation packages, to help anxious travelers with an age-old dilemma: “What if the price drops after I book my trip?”
TripAdvisor launched a new owners’ center (www.tripadvisor.com/owners) to help management teams from hotels, restaurants and attractions manage and optimize their properties’ presence on TripAdvisor.
TravelClick and Worldwide Payment Systems have teamed up to offer a commission-tracking system, with the expectation of increasing and speeding up commission payments to travel agencies booking hotels in the GDSs.
TravCom said it has become the first vendor of travel agency accounting systems to link to eCommission Solutions’ Kalypso commission-tracking tool.
OpenTravel Alliance’s FastRez software is expected cut hospitality industry developer’s implementation time by 50 percent.