Within the same week, UK travel agent Thomson announces its growing success online and one of the Internet stalwarts Expedia suffers a drastic fall in shares as first quarter results disappoint.
The sector has been very interesting to watch online and I wonder if we are now experiencing the fight back that has been muted for [...]

After Google’s Orion project yesterday, it’s good to hear Yahoo promoting a new innovation today.
Although, Yahoo’s up coming travel search does not provide new technologies, making it less ‘innovation’ and more ‘filing system’ for its current travel capabilities scattered across its portal.
Yahoo aims to up the anti on established online travel agents by bringing together [...]

I’m interested in people’s views on how the increasing range of tlds affects business and consumers online.
In particular there’s .travel, which attempts to create an online directory incorporating millions of travel websites. As an industry, travel and tourism is a world leader with around 12% of the global market. Online, travel is also a leader. [...]