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.
Travel Distribution Systems Pty Ltd (TDS) is to soon release a new computer distribution system, ARENA.