March 16, 2010Instead of remedying violations to Nasdaq rules for continued listing, TRX has decided to cease Nasdaq trading. March 10, 2010Travelport has partnered with Net Trans to offer a hotel commission-recovery service to Worldspan and Galileo users. March 4, 2010Priceline.com plans to issue $500 million in convertible senior notes due 2015 in a private offering. February 22, 2010Travelport said it became the first GDS company to receive Safe Harbor compliance certification, indicating that the company meets certain European Union and U.S. standards related to the protection of European passenger data. February 16, 2010A startup company called iZento has introduced an itinerary builder that the company said would help travel agents enhance their travel-planning services. February 4, 2010Vacation portal VAX VacationAccess named GDS veteran Kathy Patrick president on Thursday. January 28, 2010Max Hopper, widely credited as being the father of the Sabre reservations system, died from a stroke in Dallas on Monday. He was 75. January 28, 2010Travel agents will soon face competition from yet another electronic medium as Voyage.tv's destination programming for cable operators evolves into an interactive technology capable of selling trips with the click of a consumer's TV remote. January 26, 2010You can hardly blame the big online travel companies in North America if they're hearing footsteps from Asia-Pacific markets echoing at the fringes of their turf. January 21, 2010Sabre Holdings has named Tom Klein to the newly created role of president of Sabre Holdings. January 19, 2010Amadeus CFO Luis Maroto will succeed David Jones as president and CEO of Amadeus when Jones steps down next January after two years at the post. January 19, 2010Travelport, owner of the Galileo and Worldspan GDSs, will launch an initial public offering in London, the company said on Tuesday. January 15, 2010The percentage of U.S. travel bookings handled through the GDS channel is set to rebound slightly, as bargain-hunting leisure travelers flock to online travel agencies and corporations boost their reliance on agents to control travel costs, according to a report released by travel research firm PhoCusWright. January 10, 2010ARC reported it ended 2009 with 1,000 travel sellers participating in its VTC or Verified Travel Counselor program, a package of services rolled out in 2007 for agents who do not keep air appointments. December 30, 2009The technology most likely to have the biggest effect on the travel industry in 2010 boils down mainly to one thing: applications, applications, applications. Or, in tech parlance, "apps." December 18, 2009Travelport, owner of the Galileo and Worldspan GDSs, is planning a $3.2 billion initial public offering in London, reports Bloomberg News. December 15, 2009Sabre Holdings has named Greg Webb president of Sabre Travel Network, a division that includes the GDS and the GetThere corporate booking system. December 9, 2009Farelogix, a provider of direct-connect and merchandising solutions, unveiled a travel selling platform for the retail trade, called SPRK, at a press briefing in Miami Wednesday. December 3, 2009Amadeus has partnered with a software company to develop technology for tour operators and packagers intended to streamline inventory management, packaging, reservations and back-office operations. November 18, 2009ARC and American Airlines are developing an electronic tool to help the airline industry identify and reduce the incidence of duplicate bookings. November 18, 2009Amadeus unveiled technology at the PhoCusWright Conference that it believes will change how travel is sold. But perhaps equally important to travel agents, the sequencing of the rollout sets a new pattern for how – and to whom – the GDS is likely to deploy cutting-edge technology going forward. November 13, 2009Travel search engine Kayak has launched a free itinerary management tool. Called Kayak Trips, it consolidates travel components from multiple travel sites into one itinerary. October 30, 2009With about half of every month spent on the road, Zachary Beimes regularly uses more than a dozen travel applications with his iPhone, including Kayak for airline and hotel price shopping, Urbanspoon for restaurant recommendations and AA.com when he needs to change his flight itinerary on American Airlines. October 30, 2009TRX said its lender, Atlantic Capital Bank, extended the company’s credit facility to April 30, 2011, at existing terms. October 28, 2009Citing the lack of intergovernmental communications coordination last spring when the H1N1 virus emerged as a worldwide health threat, Travelport CEO Jeff Clarke has called for new set of transatlantic crisis protocols to be created. |