When the first online travel agency (OTA) emerged on the newly minted World Wide Web in 1994, many travelers shunned it.
As Apple Watch fever takes hold, this is a roundup of news and announcements dedicated to applications for the device from tourism and hospitality for April 23 and 24, 2015.
Travefy, a website that helps groups plan trips, has raised $1.8 million in equity investment in its Series A round of funding.
The Priceline Group board handed Darren Huston a $7 million bonus in 2014 plus a $14 million stock award, bringing his total compensation for the year to nearly $22 million.
Headout, a mobile travel application that functions as sort of a mobile concierge, has closed on $1.8 million in seed funding in order to expand its business to new markets.
In the first quarter f 2015, HomeAway's total revenue increased by 12.6% and its online bookable listings reached approximately 465,000, up 130% year-over-year.
Google is making its own Google Hotel Finder, its hotel price-comparison product, increasingly irrelevant with the tweaks it is making to Google-powered hotel ads atop Google’s organic search results.
Booking.com, the big online travel agent for hotels, is taking a novel approach to capturing new business from small hotel owners: it is building websites for them at no charge.