Travel News: Airlines, Tourism and Airfares

15 New Properties Further Starwood's Position as the Country's Largest US-Based Upper-Upscale and Luxury Hotel Operator

Renaissance Hotels has added another property to its global portfolio of more than 140 hotels – the 366-room Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre under a franchise agreement with Interstate Hotels & Resorts.

It’s been an interesting few days for the travel sector online. There have been a couple of key announcements from Google that could dramatically change hotel’s PPC strategy and on the mobile side of things, John Tigg (head of mobile at Yahoo) claimed that the travel sector are playing catch up when it comes to mobile marketing.

240-room Deluxe Hotel in Doral, Fla. Located Among Many Famous Golf Courses

Union leaders for AirTran pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association Int’l (ALPA), issued the following statement in response to AirTran Airways' chief executive Bob Fornaro’s receiving over a 30 percent increase in his 2009 compensation package to about $2 million.

The HVI is a valuation benchmark developed by HVS. It presents historical, and for the first time in India, future value trends for 11 major markets in India. The HVI aims to answer the question of what a hotel is worth in these cities.

Thomas Cook Canada Inc. and Jazz Air LP (Jazz), have signed a flight services agreement for Jazz to operate flights to the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America on behalf of Thomas Cook's tour operator Sunquest Vacations. The agreement is conditional on Jazz obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals.

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the membership applications of three new companies, bringing the trade group comprised of the world's leading gaming suppliers to a total of 93 members.

Recent analysis by Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has found that revenue per available room (revPAR), a key performance indicator for the hotel industry, jumped 157.5 percent to CAD$202 in Vancouver during the month of February when it hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

This wasn’t just the Easter weekend, it was also the weekend when the iPad hit the stores. Before I could get over the initial frenzy, I saw an article on Mashable that talked about a university buying iPads for all its incoming freshmen! That bold idea got me thinking…does the iPad have the potential of chancing the way airlines do business too?