Expedia.com has opened an LGBT travel site to serve as a resource for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers. Expedia.com developed the store in partnership with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), the leading global organization dedicated to connecting businesses in the LGBT tourism industry.

CCRA Travel Solutions has enhanced the CCRAtravel.com hotel booking portal to gain a competitive edge and earn more profits faster. The new features that make this web-based hotel content provider the perfect solution for smaller agencies and home-based agents.

TravelClick has teamed with Mobiata, the developer of today’s best-selling mobile travel applications, to launch a new free mobile application called StayHIP. The partnership combines mobile app design from Mobiata with hotel search expertise and booking technology from TravelClick to create an app designed exclusively for a niche community of travelers.

Citybuzz is able to reach at least one third of summer holiday travelers while they are on the go, whether in their hotels, airports, in flight or through its web and social media channels like @citybuzz in Twitter, at www.twitter.com/citybuzz.

One of Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ largest participating companies in Europe, Accor Hospitality, which has over 4,000 properties, has upgraded to the Sabre Global Distribution System’s Direct Connect XML (DCX) direct connect booking platform.

TripAdvisor has launched TripAdvisor for Business, which is designed to give the tourism industry access to more than 34 million monthly visitors to the TripAdvisor website. The company also announced its plans for continued expansion in Asia Pacific.