The Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) and PhoCusWright Inc. announced a strategic partnership to produce research and innovative events. The agreement covers two principal projects: PhoCusWright’s 2009 Canada Special Report on the Canadian travel market, and the next three editions of TIAC’s Canada-e-Connect conference, the Canadian tourism industry’s online strategy conference.

Norwegian Cruise Line has launched “Freestyle Voices,” an online social media forum allowing guests to post their experiences and opinions to the cruise line’s website. NCL says it is the first cruise line to directly post user-generated content, including reviews, on its main corporate website.

GuestLogix Inc., the world’s leading provider of onboard retail solutions to the passenger travel industry, announced a strategic partnership with Mobiletrails Limited, UK’s leading provider of interactive travel guide and information services for mobile phone users.

Forestdale Hotels has installed RateTiger’s online channel management products across 13 of its 18 properties as part of its revenue strategy to maintain rate parity across the Internet.

The number of agency segments that Travelport processed through Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan in the second quarter declined 15 percent, but the company said earnings from its GDS business rose 4 percent, to $167 million, because of higher yields.

Trip-planning website TravelMuse enhanced its Tripfolio feature, which serves as a central repository for users’ travel research, by enabling consumers to save Web content from other websites and to deposit it into their Tripfolios.