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The days when taking home a souvenir from your favorite hotel meant a bad logo T-shirt or golf visor are long gone. How about a Rebecca Minkoff bag? The W Hotel's stores have one in an exclusive shade of turquoise. A pair of Band of Outsiders pajamas? They were made specially for the Ace Hotel in New York. A pink Stephen Jones trilby hat? You h... - More

ITA Software, which is known for its flight search business, has been 'looking at' hotel search for 'a couple of years,' according to someone familiar with the matter. - More

With Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel stocks hovering just above the basement, news of Facebook and Google dancing around the travel niche cannot be thrilling. Online travel, in case you’ve been trapped in a dungeon somewhere, is about to take off like a rocket. For some that is. - More

acebook is acquiring social travel recommendation site Nextstop, according a blog post on the startup’s site. The startup, which launched in early 2009, mixes social recommendations with search and adds a reputation system and elements of gameplay. It was founded by a couple of ex-Googlers, Carl Sjogreen and Adrian Graham, who helped launc... - More

Egyptian billionaire Samih Sawiris is at ease developing a resort town in the Swiss Alps or a lakeside oasis below sea level in Egypt. In fact, he’s doing both. - More

Kingdom Holding Co., the investment company controlled by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, and its hotels unit may sell minority stakes held in hotels as part of a plan to focus on higher-earning properties. - More

The travel industry using social media as a marketing channel makes complete sense and for the most part, travel organisations can be commended on their social media activity. - More

Do you know how social media is helping your business? Want to find out how Twitter, Facebook and other sites are impacting your brand awareness? - More

However, Americans expect to spend more on transportation and other vacation costs - More

A century ago in 'technologist years' (about seven or 10 for the rest of us), many prognosticators foretold the elimination of the live travel agent, who, in the course of all good things, would be replaced by robots, by sophisticated algorithms, and by something called The Information Superhighway. - More