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A look at 2001 and beyond If you travel a lot, you'd probably rather forget 2000. Airline passenger complaints and flight delays reached record levels. Plus, prices for nearly every [...]

Order-fulfillment systems top e-tailer shopping lists LET'S FACE IT, almost every holiday season is make or break for retailers. But in the e-tailing industry this year, one might say the […]

COBRANDING WILL LEAD TRAVEL SPECIALISTS TO THE PROMISED LAND MANY LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE TRAVEL SECTOR OF the Net, whose players have demonstrated how to make the most […]

Keeping up with a growing number of competitors on the online travel scene, Mi-crosoft's travel Web site, Expedia.com, last week debuted features aimed at business travelers. The Travel Arranger feature […]

Online hotel and travel reservations provider TravelNow.com has upgraded its Web reservation system to process millions more transactions per month. Built around BEA's WebLogic Server, the system accelerates response times […]

Galileo's new home page gives smaller shops access to the same technology as large agencies When Galileo's developers sat down to create the company's new Web portal, TravelGalileo.com, they decided [...]

A restaurant booking service allowing customers to make last-minute table reservations has launched in the UK. DinnerBroker pre-books tables which customers can reserve at a cost of between 5 [pounds […]

AllCruiseAuction.com [www.AllCruiseAuction.com] is celebrating its first anniversary and expanding its services. Besides being an online auction Web site for consumers to bid on cruises and for travel agencies to auction […]

A new discount travel service has arrived to challenge Priceline.com's reign. Scheduled at press time to launch in October, Hotwire (www.hotwire.com) is backed by America West, American, Continental, Northwest, United, […]

Businesses rely on technology to eliminate the middleman-and the associated costs-for purchasing everything from steel to insurance. A growing number are extending that strategy to travel. Last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers became […]

www.travelselect.com Owner: Globepost Agency: Syzygy/in-house The relaunch of Travel Select this month has greatly improved the look and feel of the site, targetting it more towards the business community. The […]

GetThere Inc. last week announced an online corporate travel-booking system for small and midsize companies. Travel agencies such as American Express Co. and Carlson Wagonlit Travel, both based in New […]

Worldspan LP has taken a major step in transforming itself from an Old Economy computer reservations system (CRS) firm into a New Economy Internet distributor. The Atlanta travel giant recently […]

Priceline.com is on track to turn a profit, but competition from the airlines could cut into future growth. ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, William Shatner began visiting American […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The UK travel web site uTravel.co.uk has signed an agreement with the British-based company TelMe.com Plc for the provision of travel data and travel […]

Two travel services Web sites are taking steps to get business customers to make their travel plans online. Travelocity.com Inc. last week opened a business travel section on its market-leading […]

www.skydeals.co.uk Owner: Thomson Travel Group Agency: NetDecision/Tableaux Content 23/25 Usability 24/25 Branding 20/25 Monetisation 20/25 Total 87/100 Skydeals.co.uk launched earlier this month as the online venture of Thomson Travel Group. […]

A new discount travel Web site, being built by a partnership of major airlines, is set to take flight later this month. Hotwire, an online travel site backed by American […]

Orlando In his first public speech since taking the helm of Orbitz, the controversial ticketing Web site that's due to launch next June, CEO Jeffrey Katz last week said the […]

Delays are in the air for Orbitz, the new online travel site that American Airlines is developing with Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines. The hold-up? […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Last minute solutions provider lastminute.com plc has added a new service to provide car rentals online. Provided in conjunction with Holiday Autos, the service […]

Thomson Travel Group has launched Skydeals.co.uk which it claims is the first to feature scheduled, charter and low-cost airline flights on a single […]

To our TWA customers: TWA is pleased to announce our new and enhanced website that will make it easier than ever for you to book travel online. At the new [...]

TWA celebrates its 75th anniversary and its website's five-year birthday by transforming TWA.com into a one-stop shop for travelers and relaunching it on August 28. "TWA decided to rapidly expand [...]

Jeff katz, chairman, president and CEO of Orbitz-the startup travel site backed by five major airlines-was a few minutes late to a press briefing earlier this month. His plane was […]

Orbitz, the travel Web site funded by the nation's largest airlines, said Friday it would launch almost one year later than planned: next June. Jeffrey Katz, chairman and CEO of […]

With an eye toward reaping $150 million per year from e-commerce, Delta Air Lines Inc. in Atlanta has announced the creation of an internal e-commerce division that will tie the […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Travelocity.co.uk, part of the online travel web site Travelocity.com, has launched a new service in the UK called 'Team Up To Travel'. The service, […]

When the last plane home on a Friday night is fully booked, how much would you pay to get a seat? How much would it take to give up your […]

* For the business traveler who craves the local edition of his or her favorite newspaper, www.newspaperdirect.com can bring that paper to the guest. The company, which launched in 1999, [...]

Fort Worth, Texas-based Sabre Holdings continued its buying spree last week by purchasing GetThere. Menlo Park, Calif.-based GetThere will be combined with the Sabre Business Travel Solutions unit to create […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based Internet travel company Travelocity.co.uk has introduced a new guarantee to help reassure customers worried about credit card fraud. With the Shop Safe Guarantee, […]

After surviving the summer heat and herding the kids into a new school year, it's time to do something for yourself. Why not celebrate the autumn equinox with a trip? […]

Despite the number of online travel companies, the public still lacks confidence in using the Web to book package holidays, says a survey by Anite Travel Systems. Of 500 respondents, […]

French tourism group Accor launched a hotel reservation site for companies in Latin America in partnership with Argentine incubator SouthNet. The site, Hoteldo.com, launched in Argentina and Brazil and will […]

In what may become known as the summer of the delayed flight, travel vendors are leveraging online and wireless technologies to pacify an otherwise furious public. For example, online travel […]

The Pirates have turned to MS Intergate Inc., the 4-year-old Anaheim Hills, Calif.-based developer of CyberSEATS, an online ticketing system, to sell premium and season tickets for the teams inaugural [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD lastminute.com has launched the first of its second-generation web sites with its planned expansion into the Australian market. The site has been made possible […]

LOS ANGELES--When Biztravel.com shook up the travel world in May with its controversial on-time arrival guarantee, it was not known just how other industry players would respond. Many executives dismissed [...]

LOS ANGELES -- As the airline industry continues to promote direct-booking technology to corporations, agency consortiums such as Rosenbluth, Woodside Travel Trust and WorldTravel Partners are responding with new initiatives [...]

Low-fare carriers give agents a new way to sell Europe and clients more options for travel between countries. More Choices, Lower Costs Agents who are looking for a new way [...]

The latest entrant to the cluttered online travel market is attempting to carve a niche for itself by focusing on offering weekend breaks, which it defines as consisting of a […]

Thanks to a sudden push of online reservation services in L.A., Angelenos will find it much easier to make restaurant reservations by computer, and restaurants will be able to keep [...]

Demand already is strong for Super Bowl XXXV tickets six months before kickoff, and if you want to attend you should probably schedule an appointment with a loan officer now. [...]

++ Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) and e-business specialist iMerchants are developing a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce exchange for the Asia-Pacific market, allowing online purchase and sale of aerospace parts and [...]

Technology firms are offering new interfaces and alternatives to GDS contracts For years agents have been tied to the green screens and cryptic code of the GDSs for making airline [...]

* Lastminute.com, a provider of last-minute solutions on the Internet, signed deals with Choice Hotels International, Utell and Gran Caribe to promote new inventory from the companies at www.lastminute.com. * [...]

American Express joined the American Hotel & Motel Assn. to promote the association's newest benefit, www.GotRooms.com. Launched earlier this year, GotRooms.com gives AH&MA member properties an opportunity to reach thousands [...]

Accorhotel.com [www.accorhotel.com], the portal for making online reservations in any of Accor's 3,400 hotels, is now fully operational, Accor has connected all its hotels' sites to a mesh network so [...]