2013 Archives

Interhome is HomeAway's largest catch so far as the professional manager of vacation homes signed on to HomeAway's pay-per booking program. Expect a parade of others to soon follow.

With this settlement, the city has clearly said it will enforce the existing laws about short-term rentals. What this will mean for Airbnb and its peers remains to be seen, as does its effect on hosts and users .

Along with the proliferation of travel booking sites and deals, more business travelers are going rogue and rejecting corporate travel portals. Incentives are needed on a corporate level so both parties continue to work together.

Hipmunk seems content to keep its nose to the grindstone and invest in its platforms. How long it can be viable as a smaller player in an increasingly croweded marketplace remains to be seen.

Problems with the tunnels impact hundreds of thousands of local commuters as well as those visitors that head east during the summer. The improvements are one step towards improving the city's overall transit infrastructure.

To a small group of travel industry professionals the name Travora was exciting for a few months. For everyone else, this name change means little.

Flyers have a choice between affordable airfares and comfortable seats, but achieving both is near impossible in air travel today.

There are few easier ways to lose a booking than fielding a website with pages that take forever to load, or mobile apps that get hung up when it's time to make a decision on a flight. Virgin America is smart to make it a priority to improve the passenger experience way before boarding.