Groupon & Expedia's "Sort of a Discount on Your Next Getaway" Partnership

Tnooz has announced that Groupon and Expedia are teaming up to offer “deeply discounted travel deals” to its customer base.  This sounds like a novel concept so how will it work? Travel deals need to include a couple of components in order to make this thing really hum and be compelling. This is a getaway isn’t [...]

The battle between American Airlines and Online Travel Agencies has hotels cleared for take off

Along with a brighter outlook for the hotel industry comes a new alternative to the high cost of doing business with online travel giants like Expedia and Orbitz. If you conduct a Google search for “hotels in New York City” the search return will provide more than 84 million results where most feature links to [...]

States Suing Travelocity, Orbitz and Priceline

Montana, Florida and more than 60 local governments are suing online travel sites such as Travelocity, Priceline, Expedia and Orbitz for not paying the hotel taxes on the rooms they book. Similar lawsuits are springing up from local governments all over the country — including in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey — saying these [...]