Flying is one of the largest travel costs you will while on the road. The age of cheap flights is mostly over and it has become harder to find the great flight deals that will let you jet off to some exotic location on a whim. While a lot of people like to take premium [...]
Priceline.com unveiled itsHotel Negotiator and application for iPhone and iPod Touch last week, joining Travelocity.com’s and Expedia.com’s applications at the Apple Online Store. Priceline’s offering features William Shatner as the Priceline Negotiator, and operates much like the Web site offering a variety of last-minute hotel rooms at discounted prices. The application also features hotel listings, customer reviews, [...]
Lufthansa, Europe’s leading premium airline, has introduced a unique online booking tool that makes planning and booking individual group travel for global meetings and events easier and more flexible. The new Lufthansa “Meetings and Events” product provides both event organizers, and individual travelers with an event-dedicated webpage containing exclusive offers for participants from anywhere in [...]
The price is the decisive factor: increasingly the choice of destination is determined by the travel budget. According to the ADAC Travel Monitor, which is presented each year at ITB Berlin, in future half of all those polled want to spend less on their holidays. For 37.9 per cent of those questioned value for money [...]
“Was your hotel worth the money?” This was the question investigated by hotel.info, the free online hotel reservation service for over 210,000 hotels worldwide. hotel.info is analysing the over 1 million hotel ratings awarded by hotel.info booking customers from around the world in terms of the price performance of 3 and 4 star hotels. The [...]
National Automobile Dealers Association officials asked the government to suspend the cash-for-clunkers program because a survey by the group found that the $3 billion fund has been exhausted, NADA Chairman John McEleney said. “We asked them to put a halt to the program–I think we said ‘very soon’–but a suspension at midnight tonight would make [...]