Exclusively business class airline Silverjet announced the launch of “Silverjet Mobile”, a full mobile internet service which enables passengers to access all of the functionality of its website through their mobile devices.
Online travel organizer and social network TripIt has received $5.1 million in Series B financing from three investors: Sabre Holdings, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and European Founders Fund.
In a sign of the times, Hilton Caribbean launched a page on YouTube to enable travelers to watch resort videos when planning their vacations and to download their own videos when they return home. The YouTube page can be viewed at www.youtube/hiltoncaribbean.com.
Expedia Distribution and fish4.co.uk, the UK’s largest classified website for jobs, homes and cars, have formed a new partnership to create fish4holidays; an online one-stop-shop for consumers to source and book hotel accommodation and packages.
Amadeus has created a new unit to provide tools for international leisure distribution called TravelTainment-The Amadeus Leisure Group. The move combines three Amadeus leisure technology businesses: TravelTainment, Amadeus Tours, and the product management and development for TOMA, a tour package distribution solution.
Flight consolidator Teleticket has launched a new email facility to enable them to offer a quicker and more efficient service to all of their agents.




