Travelocity’s ExperienceFinder, its vacation planning tool that allows visual exploration of 28 destinations, is now easier to access thanks to the new “Plan My Trip” tab recently introduced to Travelocity’s homepage. Additionally, several other enhancements have been made to the ExperienceFinder trip planning tool that give travelers more information when planning their dream vacation.
The advent of two viable mobile computing platforms (the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm) is being tipped to have a catalytic effect upon the use of mobile travel applications.
Hotel.mobi has launched http://www.hotel.mobi/, a web directory allowing mobile users to find hotels near their current location and directly call the hotels’ booking desks in one single click. Hotel.mobi is a portal run by Quinv SA.
TripAdvisor has introduced its “Top Values” Index, an easy way to sort the most popular hotels around the world to quickly find the hotels that are great values.
CCRA International, which provides marketing and technology to the travel industry, has introduced CCRA Group Travel Solutions, its new, web-based group booking tool only available to professional travel agents at www.CCRATravel.com.
Travelport GDS has announced that it has signed an exclusive Galileo contract with Al Ghaith Al Moosa Travel Agency, also known as ALTA. Offering industry leading technology, Travelport’s Galileo system will help ALTA boost its customer service capabilities and enhance the efficiency of the group’s operations.