Innkeepers USA Trust, a real-estate investment trust that owns more than 70 midmarket hotels, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday in New York in a deal with major creditors. - More
Eager to snap up a company that makes some much-used travel-search technology - and keep it out of Google Inc.'s handsseveral potential buyers are circling ITA Software Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. - More
Updated and adapted from the book '1,001 Things They Won't Tell You: An Insider's Guide to Spending, Saving, and Living Wisely,' by Jonathan Dahl and the editors of SmartMoney. - More
For wired travelers everywhere, this social-media mammoth, which has seen its number of unique visitors grow nearly 600% in the past year—is increasingly becoming the go-to site for everything from getting hotel recommendations to sniffing out midtrip dinner companions. - More
The Elysian hotel in Chicago, which opened in December, has adopted a no-tipping policy, a move that breaks with standard practices across the high-end- and luxury-hotel market, says the head of a trade association. - More
A growing number of online travel sites are offering members exclusive and time-limited access to deep discounts-adapting the business model of many online sellers of designer fashions. - More
If LinkedIn Corp. wants to avoid being swamped by social-networking giant Facebook Inc., it will have to convince users like Jackie Nejaime to log in more often they do now. - More