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Travelocity and Lastminute.com extend booking window for last second deals

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Travelocity and Lastminute.com have extended the booking window for last second deals, allowing travelers to book three weeks in advance. Last second deals can save travelers up to 70 percent and are good options for those who want a spontaneous getaway. Until now, consumers could only purchase last second deals up to two weeks in advance.
For example, based on today’s date, travelers can now shop a variety of weekend getaways for the weekends of Aug. 1, Aug. 8 and Aug. 15. There are many options less than $200, to destinations all across the country.

Travelocity and Lastminute.com offer last second weekend getaway packages to hundreds of domestic and international destinations. They can be purchased from three weeks to three hours before departure (five hours for international travel).

Originally posted on July 28, 2008 @ 11:31 pm

Mobissimo launches travel search in Germany

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Travel search engine Mobissimo has added Germany to its network of local travel search sites, with local content for German users.

Mobissimo now covers the top eight online markets in Europe, including France, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK, as well as India and North America.

Mobissimo’s new German site includes fares and offers from local travel agencies, consolidators, hotels and all the major and low-cost airlines relating to German users. The Germany launch matches the strong demand in Eastern and Western Europe for online travel options: European countries account for more than 50 per cent of all worldwide travel.

Originally posted on July 22, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

GeoBeats partners with NextTrip.com for travel video content

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geobeats.pngOnline video production and distribution solutions GeoBeats, Inc. has signed an agreement with NextTrip.com for licensed travel videos that will be featured on NextTrip.com, a video and social community travel site.

As a part of this private label agreement, NextTrip.com will receive 30 two- to three-minute videos per month. The videos will provide the site’s travel audience with insightful glimpses of unique attractions and helpful tips to aid in their travel-planning decisions.

The first videos to be featured on NextTrip.com’s site include a vignette on the famous lookout point in Florence, Italy, Piazzale Michelangelo, and a look at Berlin’s nightlife.

Originally posted on July 17, 2008 @ 6:30 am

Orbitz.com, ebookers.com to become MSN’s travel provider in U.S. and UK

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Orbitz.com and its affiliated online travel brand ebookers.com in the United Kingdom have signed a multi-year deal with Microsoft to serve as the online travel agency for MSN.com’s travel portal in the U.S. and United Kingdom,
respectively.

Orbitz.com and ebookers.com will power all of MSN Travel’s offerings, including air, hotel, vacation package, cruise and car rental bookings.

Microsoft also plans to integrate more content from its newly-acquired Live Search Farecast travel search engine within the MSN Travel site as well.

Originally posted on July 4, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

Mobissimo opens Recommendation Box in France, Italy, and Spain

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Following its release of Recommendation Box (RecBox) in the U.S., travel search engine Mobissimo has made the new travel planning feature available on its local web sites in France, Italy, and Spain.

With RecBox, Mobissimo can suggest even cheaper ticket options for the leisure traveller willing to switch dates or consider alternate destinations. For business travellers, Mobissimo’s RecBox shows the cheapest non-stop and business class fares. Mobissimo’s RecBox also displays train fares such as Eurostar and Rail Europe for many European destinations—and updates dynamically according to the user’s query, making travel search quick, easy and comprehensive.

With a single click, Mobissimo searches and compares over 200 travel sites in real time. Mobissimo’s search capabilities, seven foreign language sites, unmatched coverage of low-cost airlines, widest choice of hotels in every star category have made it the uncontested leader in online travel search.

This is what we need at this time with soaring gas prices.

Originally posted on June 11, 2008 @ 10:14 am