Despite the increase in the use of the internet for holiday research and bookings, many travel agents have seen an increase in their business over the last year. While many people are just getting introduced to websites like Expedia.com and Priceline.com, others are sick of them and are coming back to the more traditional means  Continue Reading »

Expedia seems to be on an endless streak with yet another new service offered to allow hotel partners to more easily link property management in a new reservation system. Expedia QuickConnect will allow automation of booking and rate information between the Expedia database and the hotels themselves. Room availability can be monitored more effectively with  Continue Reading »

For most of us, expedia.com is a place to go to check prices for lights, hotels and car rentals; but Expedia also has a corporate travel service, and the Italian branch has just launched. Now business travellers in Italy will have access to a localized service, Italian language content and a full support service, giving  Continue Reading »

JetBlue Airways has been in the news a fair bit recently, and not all of it has been positive press. A recent announcement by Expedia marks a positive message and a long-term commitment between the two companies. Expedia is, for many people, the first stop on their Internet search for flights, hotels and car rentals.  Continue Reading »

What makes someone a good tourist? How can you classify which country has the ‘best’ tourists? The entire concept seems futile at best. Unless that is, if you’re looking at the question of a Hotel’s perspective. Expedia conducted a survey with over 15,000 European hotel owners and managers to gauge which nationalities they considered to  Continue Reading »

Members of the hotel industry across Europe were recently surveyed on their views of who makes the best tourists. A total of 15,000 industry professionals were surveyed on behalf of the travel website Expedia and the nation that came out on top for producing the world’s best tourists was… Japan. Japanese tourists won first position  Continue Reading »

Most people think of cruising in the Caribbean, across the ocean or in the sunny Mediterranean but perhaps one of the most beautiful routes, and one of the most accessible for North Americans, is up Canada’s West Coast, from Vancouver to Alaska. These cruises generally book up fast, so if you’re planning to be anywhere  Continue Reading »