Abacus International, Asia’s leading travel facilitator, announced the launch of a new edition of its popular solution, Abacus Whiz. The enhanced version contains many intelligent features to help the more than15,000 Abacus connected travel agency locations provide quality customer service and increase business efficiencies.

bugbitten.com has come up with a new criteria-based tour search engine, promising “to attract more genuine bookers not just lookers”.

Travelport GDS has signed a new agreement with accommodation-only website, Hotels4U.com. The new deal, which commences immediately, will, for the first time, allow Hotels4U.com to distribute its hotel inventory via a GDS.

Travelocity has introduced a Spanish-language site (www.travelocity.com/LA) for consumers in Latin America. The site targets travelers throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America with a focus on consumers in Chile, Columbia and Peru.

Trust International has signed a contract to implement a suite of its Voyager/CRS central reservation system and Trust/Booker IBE (Internet booking engine) software for Germany’s Motel One, marking the hotel chain’s entrance into the international global distribution system (GDS) marketplace.

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) has built a new tool unique in the hotel industry that will make it easier to plan and book an IHG branded hotel room anywhere in the world in just a few clicks. Visitors to IHG’s website http://www.ihg.com/ or http://www.earth.ihg.com/ can download for free a tool that combines Google Earth technology with a special IHG hotels file.