May 6th, 2013 at 3:00PM: They all talk about it. "Like us on Facebook," "Follow us on Twitter" and "Read our blog," say travel-related websites selling everything from guidebooks to airline flights, gear and gum. Many give us little reason to like them, follow them or do anything other than buy their products on the way to the next online destination. But some travel seller sites actually do put some time and effort into ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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May 6th, 2013 at 3:00PM: They all talk about it. "Like us on Facebook," "Follow us on Twitter" and "Read our blog," say travel-related websites selling everything from guidebooks to airline flights, gear and gum. Many give us little reason to like them, follow them or do anything other than buy their products on the way to the next online destination. But some travel seller sites actually do put some time and effort into ...Go 'Smell The Roses' With New Travelocity Brand Campaign
Mar 11th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Travelocity's newly-launched brand campaign is urging travelers to get off their couches and "go and smell the roses." (Note: official hashtag: #gosmelltheroses).
Pushed though five new TV commercials, the spots will feature the now famous roaming gnome in a variety of situations, ranging from the running of the bulls to a ski gondola to a sandy beach, all with messages encouraging ...
Tips For Flying Cheaper In 2013
Feb 4th, 2013 at 10:00AM:
Another year has passed and the airline industry is still locked in its race to the bottom of quality and service. It now costs money to add anything special to your flight, from legroom to meals to Internet to in-flight television. Need to change your tickets? There's a fee. Want to standby for an earlier flight? There's a fee. On some carriers there's even a fee to store your bags in an ...To Find Discounts On Travel, Know The Lingo
Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:30PM:
Discounts on travel commonly come from a travel service provider's attempt to promote their business. An airline may have extra seats to fill so they discount them, offering a better value. Hotels promote traditionally slow occupancy times in one way or another and cruise lines do much of the same. But how do we know what is really a good deal or just an effort to encourage us to buy?
...Why We Really Don't Want Travel Agents To Die
Oct 4th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Travel agents were once considered the dinosaurs of travel, something used before the Internet took over and eliminated the need for them. True, we can book airfare, hotels, car rentals, even cruise vacations online either directly with the supplier or through discount operations like Travelocity, Kayak and others. But should we? These days, the tide seems to be turning as individual and ...Is Travelocity Built For Women?
Sep 2nd, 2012 at 3:00PM: The folks over at Skift have an interesting study on mobile travel apps as a function of gender. Among the comscore data that they crunched, they found that the mobile tools for Hilton and Delta were frequented primarily by men (74 respectively) while among Online Travel Agents, Travelocity was the only tool that was gender asymmetric. Apparently, 66% of Travelocity app users are women, while ...Caribbean Week Brings Music, Dance, Deals To New York City
Jun 5th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Now through June 11, Caribbean Week New York is being held at Grand Central Terminal, offering a celebration of the unique vacation experiences available in the Caribbean. Hosted by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) the event is a chance to experience the sights, sounds and culture of island life along with some exclusive travel deals.
Travel experts from Caribbean destinations will ...Travelocity's "roaming gnome" hosts Earth Day scavenger hunt in NYC
Apr 15th, 2011 at 3:30PM:
Celebrate Earth Day with one of Gadling's favorite trip booking sites, Travelocity. Their mascot, the Roaming Gnome, is hosting a virtual and real week-long scavenger hunt, where Facebook fans and Twitter followers have a chance to win prizes, while finding the "greenest" hotspots from uptown to downtown Manhattan.
Starting April 18, the mascot (@roaminggnome) will host four scavenger hunts ...Online travel company lawsuits heat up, cool off
Mar 27th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
Going back more than 10 years, U.S. city and state governments have been suing online travel sites for underpaying general excise and hotel taxes. Now, lawsuits filed years ago are being heard and the story continues as mixed verdicts come in.
First, here's the beef. Online travel companies purchase unused hotel room inventory and then sell those rooms to consumers at a marked-up price. ...Travelocity video contest awards winners $5,000 voluntourism vacation grants
Jan 31st, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Travelocity knows you work hard. That's why the online travel company would like to give you a $5,000 grant to go on vacation.
Calm down now. You have to work to win your just reward. And by work, I mean you or a team need to submit a winning video. Then you have to use your five thousand smackers to take a Signature Trip volunteer vacation offered by Travelocity's voluntourism partners. ...
Brand Wars: The Airline Booking Battle Will Be Televised
Dec 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
Online travel agencies have had a solid run over the past two years. They picked up some market share as would-be travelers were willing to poke around a little more to score cheap tickets. High rates of unemployment and under-employment and general economic uncertainty, of course, were enough to make consumers value every dollar a little more. This opened an opportunity for online travel ...Keep track of Thanksgiving holiday airport ruckus with Travelocity
Nov 20th, 2010 at 4:00PM: The busiest travel day of the year is almost upon us -- have you got your chain mail travel pants and your 3oz 4Loko shots ready yet?
There's no doubt that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the craziest day of the year to travel, and with this year's new security screenings in place and a higher volume of air travelers predicted over last year, airports are going to be experiencing ...The Travelocity Roaming Gnome becomes a real retail celebrity
Sep 24th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
When I travel, I always expect to run into someone I never thought I'd see at my destination. But to travel, and run into not one, but three of the Travelocity Roaming Gnomes took me completely by surprise. Sadly, the little fellow wasn't there to make sure my trip was going as planned (I had not booked through his company).
Apparently, the chubby little gnome has become quite a retail ...New TripAdvisor iPhone app makes finding reviews on the go a lot easier
May 26th, 2010 at 5:00PM: There is no denying that TripAdvisor has become one of the go-to sources of hotel, restaurant and attraction reviews. So, if you have an iPhone (or iPod), check out the newest TripAdvisor app and get your reviews on the go.
The app is very easy to use, and makes finding reviews a beeze - based upon your location, or a manually entered location.
Best of all - you can write your own reviews ...Travelocity announces the launch of Top Secret Hotels
Mar 23rd, 2010 at 7:00PM: The roaming Gnome has found a new way to book hotels: Travelocity announced it will offer unpublished - or 'opaque' - hotel deals as part of their hotel offerings.
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The concept is familiar: Find deeply discounted hotel rates based on preferred location, ...Mixed bag for spring break travel
Mar 4th, 2010 at 12:00PM: For spring breakers, the news this year is mixed. According to data from Bing Travel and Travelocity, USA Today reports, airfares are up, but hotel rates are down. The result, of course, is a variation on the adage that there's no free lunch. You may get a deal on one part of your trip, but you'll inevitably pay elsewhere.
Airfares, on average, are up 9 percent relative to last year, ...Read the fine print - Hotel tip
Jan 7th, 2010 at 3:59PM: When making reservations for a hotel stay, don't assume all booking companies (i.e., Expedia vs. Travelocity) are created equal.
If you book a hotel one month with one agency and then book the same hotel again the next month with a different agency, don't assume the terms and conditions for refunds or changes will be the same. Oftentimes, cancellation fees and refund policies differ from ...Five predictions for the European travel market
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 8:30AM: The end of the year is the time for all kinds of predictions for the next one. Usually, I treat such conjecture as the bullshit that it is, but when PhoCusWright puts out a list of what'll happen for the travel market, I tend to take it a little much more seriously.
The worldwide recession is still squeezing the European travel market, but the online sector is likely to be the star next year, ...Keep up on Thanksgiving airport traffic with Travelocity's Task Force
Nov 24th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Nobody is looking forward to venturing into battle tomorrow. Wednesday is the year's biggest travel day, a congested, high stress day when airports are packed, tempers are high and any small hiccup can make an entire airport turn upside down.
We all have to get home somehow though, and the harsh reality facing many of us is that the airport needs to be handled (my flight to London leaves from ...Travelocity survey says: fat, smelly and coughing the worst to be sitting next to
Oct 10th, 2009 at 11:30AM:
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A Travelocity survey confirms what we knew all along - smelly passengers, coughing passengers and "passengers of size" are amongst the worst people to be sitting next to in the air.
The results are from the Travelocity 2009 "rudeness poll", ...
