Intercontinental Unveils Industry's First Online Tool To Help Small- To Medium-Sized Businesses Manage Travel And Maximize Pre-Negotiated Rates
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) announced the launch of Business ChoiceSM, the industry's first one-stop hotel reservation and travel management portal specifically designed for the thousands of travel planners for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ...more

Lodging Interactive Goes Web 2.0 With Google Hotel-Mashups
Location, location and location that is what sells hotel rooms and often at the best possible rate. In May Lodging Interactive, a leading hospitality Internet sales & marketing company, launched HotelMASHUPS and today announces the integration of point-2-point directions. HotelMASHUPS is an interactive mapping service for the hospitality industry. ...more

Best Western Introduces New Travel Packages and Destination Activities on Consumer Web Site
Guests Can Now Book Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars, as well as Event Tickets and Tours, with One-Stop Shopping at www.bestwestern.com ...more

Senior executives from America's leading travel companies meet to debate the most profitable distribution strategies
Top executives representing the leading hospitality companies and distributors will share their wealth of experience, knowledge and expert predictions at EyeforTravel's annual Travel Distribution Summit North America, being held in Chicago on 4-5 October 2006. ...more

FAMrates.com celebrates its 5th year online.
'Having reached our fifth year online with thousands of subscribed travel agents is beyond expectation', commented Gerry Notino, founder of Famrates LLC. ...more

New Castle Hotels & Resorts Partners With VFM Interactive To Boost Online Booking Through Powerful Rich Media
In the Internet age, a picture may still be worth a thousand words, but a picture that talks to you can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. This new reality is the basis for a highly successful partnership between New Castle Hotels and Resorts, a leading hotel industry management company and VFM Interactive, the industry leader in rich media management, production and distribution. ...more

Online Travel Spending up 15 Percent
comScore Forecasts Total E-Commerce Spending by Consumers Will Reach Approximately $170 Billion in 2006 - Non-Travel E-commerce Spending Grows 25 Percent in First Half of 2006 Versus Year Ago ...more

Agents Can Now Create Customized Travel Packages on the Fly Between More Than 1500 Destinations with TripTailor from Sabre Holdings
New leisure brand provides personalized travel experiences and packaged value anywhere travelers want to go ...more

Aloft Hotels to Be the First Hotel Brand to Open Its Doors in Virtual Reality
aloft hotels debut inside the virtual world Second Life - will let digital explorers experience the hotel online before real-life travelers can walk through the doors in 2008 ...more

The Network Effect of Tagging and Trip Planning - By John Bray
Social networking and consumer-generated content are cornerstones of Travel 2.0. Whether for purely time-starved, or simply voyeuristic reasons, consumers are increasingly turning to tagging, a mashup of both social networking and consumer-generated content, to sift, sort, and share information about travel planning and buying. ...more

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Sage Hospitality Resources Moves All Independent Properties to SynXis
Leading Management Company utilizes the RedX(TM) Distribution Management System to offer Full Distribution and Revenue Management capabilities to their portfolio ...more

Merritt Hospitality Installs Aptech's Market-Leading Business Intelligence Solutions
Merritt uses BI solutions to gather, analyze daily data from 31 properties; eyes growth and $500 million in acquisitions annually ...more

MICROS Takes Gold for 6th Consecutive Year from RSPA
Award Presented at the 2006 RSPA EXPOtech by the Dealers Association ...more

Marriott Tests Mobile Wireless Check-In
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR) today announced that it has begun testing mobile wireless check-in for Microsoft's Windows Mobile(R)-powered devices on end-to-end Intel Architecture for a select group of travelers to Redmond (Wash.) Marriott Town Center. ...more

Marriott Expands Online Pre-Arrival Planning To Meetings And Conferences Worldwide
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR) announced the expansion of At Your Service(R) pre-arrival planning to meetings and events worldwide. ...more

Is the Hospitality Industry utilizing Best Practices for their Telecommunications Inventory and Expense Management?
Telecommunications and Hospitality Software Systems ...more

Ripley Launches MICROS 9700 HMS with RFID at Great Wolf Lodge Indoor Waterpark Resort in Niagara Falls, Canada
MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS) , a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Ripley Entertainment, a global leader in the attractions industry and the owner of Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Canada, went live with MICROS 9700 Hospitality Management System (HMS) supporting 27 MICROS workstations with integrated RFID readers, on June 28, 2006. ...more

Travel Management Alliance Issues Appeal for U.S. Airlines to Reach Accord with Global Distribution Systems
Independent Travel Management Corporations Call for Consideration for Business Travel Needs; Assurances of Full Content and Fee Protection ...more

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