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November 18, 2009, 9:37 AM
If someone else finds a better rate at Orbitz on a hotel stay you've booked, the company will automatically reimburse you for the difference and send you a $50 code good toward a future booking.
November 10, 2009, 3:08 PM
Here's a startling, colorful, fiery dusk-and-nighttime film of "the annual art event and temporary community in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada."
November 6, 2009, 10:33 AM
If you're going to Paris soon, or you're just back, you can comment, ask questions, or leave recommendations and tips for other travelers—and you may hear back directly from our editors in real time.
October 29, 2009, 1:27 PM
The website Dealbase is listing packages that are actually more expensive than the cost of buying their individual parts.
October 21, 2009, 12:09 PM
Hosang Park’s aerial photographs of Korean parks and public spaces may remind you of the joys of having a window seat on a flight.
October 15, 2009, 1:18 PM
Today, American Airlines launched a new website called Black Atlas, dedicated to connecting African-American travelers with each other.
October 6, 2009, 12:22 PM
Get discounts to attractions in New York City during the next few weeks at this special website.
October 6, 2009, 10:53 AM
TripAdvisor's new site estimates the fees you'll shell out for flights from the U.K. and throughout Europe.
October 5, 2009, 10:08 AM
For $30 for all the passengers traveling on an itinerary, you can get your own personal airline dork to watch over and guide your trip. It's like a guardian angel.
September 23, 2009, 2:36 PM
Goby searches across hundreds of vetted Websites for the lowdown on attractions, activities, events, restaurants, and lodging.
September 17, 2009, 9:12 AM
Tix4Tonight, a discount ticket service, is adding its seventh location at the end of the month.
September 2, 2009, 11:39 AM
It seems that every year a fresh crop of bloggers has arrived on the electronic scene to share the ecstasies and agonies of life abroad.
August 28, 2009, 1:37 PM
The website is part trip-organizer, part social media meet-up maker.
August 13, 2009, 11:05 AM
Like a hipper, budget-minded version of Yelp, Where's Cool is a network of in-the-know friends who will point you to surprising spots in just about any city.
July 16, 2009, 2:19 PM
TheBusSchedule.com is a website covering when intercity buses will depart in the main cities of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua.
June 30, 2009, 9:54 AM
When you visit an American city, look for an online version of the alternative weekly newspaper's annual "Best Of" edition, in which locals vote for their favorite places to eat, drink, and hang out.
June 30, 2009, 9:50 AM
The sooner you can take off, the more you'll save during Intrepid Travel's one-day sale, June 30, from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
June 25, 2009, 10:36 AM
Have you ever come across the smallest plane seat or the dumbest recreational sport ever invented, and wanted to tell the world about it? Now you can, in one handy place.
June 23, 2009, 2:29 PM
For a fee, the trip planning service TripIt will keep tabs on any delays, cancellations, and gate changes for every flight in your itinerary, and send you an SMS message to alert you to news.
June 17, 2009, 3:14 PM
"If you're thinking Aren't toilets the same all over the world? you don’t know squat," says this Howcast video.
June 12, 2009, 10:57 AM
At HazelMail's new iPhone app, you can upload your photographs and then enter a message and an address. The site takes care of the rest, printing out and mailing a freshly minted postcard.
June 12, 2009, 10:32 AM
Enter your departure and arrival cities—plus the year, make and model of your car—and the site will offer you printable Google Maps directions, plus your estimated fuel costs and climate impact.
June 11, 2009, 9:40 AM
TripAdvisor is issuing special reminders that some reviews on its site are fake and that it can't police all of them, especially on more than 90 hotels that it believes are particularly plagued with fake reviews.
June 9, 2009, 4:04 PM
Browsing for authentic Italian goods just got easier thanks to a revamped bilingual website.
June 3, 2009, 3:04 PM
It only took a few hours for a 22-year-old web designer to come up with a more intuitive website for American Airlines.
June 1, 2009, 2:43 PM
Following Expedia's lead, Travelocity and Orbitz drop most of their booking fees.
May 28, 2009, 9:51 AM
Cheapflights debuts a checklist for planning an affordable summer vacation.
May 14, 2009, 5:05 PM
Kayak.com is making it easier to find out the grand total you'd pay for a flight with a checked bag or two. Select the number of bags you're planning on checking, and updated flight prices with baggage charges included appear.
May 4, 2009, 12:59 PM
Busjunction.com, which launched this week, makes it easy and fast to find the bus line and fare that most suits your budget, schedule, and itinerary.
April 27, 2009, 4:56 PM
The most popular app for travelers on Facebook (and many other social-networking sites) has just gotten a re-vamp. Here are the highlights.
April 24, 2009, 10:29 AM
Visit Austin's, Australia's, Sweden's, Montreal's, and Asbury Park (N.J.) Boardwalk's websites and you'll see this year's nominees for the Webby Award for the most innovative tourism website.
April 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
A website lets you learn a foreign word a day for free, covering any of 20 languages, including French, Czech, Korean, and Welsh. You receive your word list in an e-mail or via a Twitter feed.
April 23, 2009, 9:58 AM
United now has an online calculator that estimates your share of the heat-trapping gases tied to global warming. Donations start at $2. We tell you which of its programs is the most promising.
April 22, 2009, 9:24 AM
Orbitz cuts its booking fee (for a savings of about $7 on average) and will change the way it displays hotel pricing to be more upfront on total cost on the search results page.
April 15, 2009, 2:56 PM
...right now we're just happy to be recognized as one of five finalists for a Webby in the Travel category, along with Kayak, LonelyPlanet, TripKick, and AndBeyond.com.
April 15, 2009, 1:10 PM
A new website allows you to reserve, and pay-in-advance for, bicycles at shops in 37 states and 144 U.S. cities. Reserve a bike to your own specification, such as cruiser or racer.
April 13, 2009, 11:36 AM
E-mail all of your electronic airline itineraries, hotel confirmations, restaurant reviews, and other trip-planning info to TripIt and you can retrieve all of the info in one place: your iPhone.
April 6, 2009, 2:00 PM
You've conquered the continents, now for Facebook…Try these three popular applications aimed at travelers.
April 3, 2009, 10:43 AM
Travel blogs HotelChatter and Jaunted have spawned a baby sister, VegasChatter, focusing on all things Sin City.
March 24, 2009, 9:11 AM
Kayak recently bought TravelPost and gave it a more powerful search engine. Its goal is to replace TripAdvisor as the most visited site for hotel reviews and rates.
March 19, 2009, 4:24 PM
Fly.com's the new kid on the block when it comes to airfare metasearch. The site hasn't started advertising yet, but you'll be soon hearing a lot more about it.
March 19, 2009, 2:10 PM
What's Twitter, and how can you make the most of it? To help explain, we look at this case study: Why did Expedia's stock mysteriously jump yesterday?
March 10, 2009, 1:38 PM
A pair of websites, ContactHelp and GetHuman, can help you figure out the best way to get someone on the phone to provide you with customer service at companies in the travel industry.
March 9, 2009, 3:06 PM
Kayak.com CEO Steve Hafner dishes about the travel industry, copycat designs, and his company's plans to take on TripAdvisor in the hotel-reviewing game.
March 6, 2009, 1:32 PM
Having the fee info included in fare quotes makes it easier for travelers to make apples-to-apples comparisons.
March 6, 2009, 10:58 AM
Google's Street View now shows you user-generated photos for richer views of landmarks, while Flickr's new Clock feature creatively presents user-generated videos worldwide.
February 9, 2009, 1:13 PM
Longtime Priceline spokesman Brian Ek is blogging about where the deals are. We recently sat down and talked with Brian.
February 4, 2009, 1:31 PM
January 29 marked the first French strike of 2009, and it's already being referred to as "Black Thursday." What's the best way to deal with one if it happens to you?
February 4, 2009, 10:35 AM
Check out some cool new apps for your cell phone that take advantage of new, GPS-based "location aware" technologies.
February 2, 2009, 11:04 AM
DealBase is a new way to figure out if a vacation package is actually offering you a discounted price, comparing it with the cost of booking the components separately.
January 23, 2009, 5:26 PM
A list of 250 hotels that use practices that are less destructive to the environment can now be found at Travelocity.
January 21, 2009, 11:59 AM
This morning Mayor Michael Bloomberg debuted two new moves to help tourists plan their visits to New York City: A new tourism website and a high-tech information center.
December 23, 2008, 11:27 AM
More than 900 bands used Couchsurfing.com to find free places to stay last year. One band says it saved $5,000 on lodging costs for its 109 nights on the road in 2008.
November 25, 2008, 8:48 AM
Travel Off the Cuff is a travel-news aggregator—a bit like the Yahoo! homepage. It relies on its readers to post the news they find interesting. If you ever run out of things to read at BudgetTravel.com, check it out.
November 24, 2008, 4:39 PM
Cheap eyeglasses in Shanghai, Thanksgiving at Plimoth Plantation, and France's feeble café culture.
October 31, 2008, 11:10 AM
Haunted prisons and inns, Frankenstein's castle, travel horror movies, and "No trick or treat" posters.
October 31, 2008, 9:40 AM
The booking agency shares data on which flight routes are yielding the most refund checks through its Price Assurance program.
October 29, 2008, 8:49 AM
As of this morning, LinkedIn members will be able to add a TripIt application to their profiles; anytime they want to share information about a trip they're taking, they can just add the info to the TripIt app.
October 10, 2008, 10:53 AM
A roundup of the best websites for finding travel deals (including BudgetTravel.com, of course).
October 1, 2008, 12:10 PM
A new website makes it easier to book a car rental without feeling guilty about your environmental impact by offering free carbon-offset credits plus tips on driving efficiently.
September 30, 2008, 9:30 AM
Some websites are giving a personalized (and much safer) spin to the ancient art of hitchhiking.
September 29, 2008, 1:04 PM
Sort through a mix of deals featured by companies like Budget Travel, Expedia, and Kayak with a new search engine from BootsnAll.com.
September 26, 2008, 10:35 AM
Once you've messaged a photo from your cell phone to an assigned address, your friends can see your pics from their computers or their cell-phone's Web browser.
September 18, 2008, 4:15 PM
We interview company insiders for insights.
September 15, 2008, 9:30 AM
An up-and-coming, hotel-booking option.
September 4, 2008, 11:58 AM
Two websites help you save gas.
August 28, 2008, 11:38 AM
Show us which subways you've ridden.
August 21, 2008, 12:26 AM
Photo-stitching software offers three-dimensional images.
August 13, 2008, 10:14 AM
"Earn extra cash: Rent your airbed."
July 28, 2008, 5:54 PM
You'll find a list of Wi-Fi options at 219 airports at TravelPost.com.
July 21, 2008, 12:09 PM
Today Hotwire unleashed Travel-Ticker.com, a site that lists top deals ranging airfare specials to elaborate air-and-hotel packages at all-inclusive resorts.
July 21, 2008, 11:39 AM
A new bill promises matching grants to any state that has a comprehensive bedbug inspection program.
July 10, 2008, 10:06 PM
For every 10 reservations you book via Hotels.com, you'll get a free night at a location of your choice. No blackout dates for stays at about 45,000 properties.
June 20, 2008, 10:44 AM
So far, a website called I Found Your Camera has reunited 8 lost cameras with their rightful owners.
June 20, 2008, 7:12 AM
The website europeanhostels.com has been updated with better tools for seeking out hostels. Find out what makes the site great.
June 17, 2008, 2:00 PM
ESPN.com offers a handy feature: a complete stadium guide for all 30 Major League baseball teams.
June 17, 2008, 10:22 AM
Our guest-blogger has lived in India for much of the past two years. Here are his tips on the most helpful websites to use for planning a trip there.
June 13, 2008, 3:46 PM
If you book a flight on Orbitz and another customer subsequently books the same class seat on the same flight for a lower fare, Orbitz will reimburse you for the difference up to $250.
June 11, 2008, 8:40 AM
On a new website, travel agents bid on your all-inclusive resort business.
May 16, 2008, 12:41 PM
Watch a short video on how RSS feeds are a super way to read articles on the Internet.
May 14, 2008, 10:58 AM
Ever search for hotel and activity ideas by "theme" and "location"? Now you can. Uptake.com scours more than 1,000 travel sites and produces edited lists of travel recommendations.
April 28, 2008, 12:17 PM
This weekend, road food experts Jane and Michael Stern announced that they've launched a new blog, RoadFoodDigest.com. Published experts on roadside eateries weigh in daily on the latest news, opening, and trip ideas.
April 24, 2008, 10:23 AM
The Power of Travel is a new website that lets you quickly look up your state or congressional district and see how much spending is done by tourists, with the estimated effect on tax revenues and job creation.
April 18, 2008, 12:37 PM
The free service helps travelers decide whether they should buy a ticket now or wait and hope that the price drops.
April 16, 2008, 8:37 AM
If there's a public bus or light rail option on the trip you're planning, Google Maps will now suggest it. See a video with a full explanation.
April 8, 2008, 8:37 AM
A new website brings together about 60 leading travel blogs and puts their latest posts all on one page.
March 31, 2008, 1:40 PM
Europe has its own versions of JetBlue and Southwest, and these discount airlines can save you money when you want to hop around the Continent.
March 5, 2008, 4:45 PM
The farewatcher will help you find the cheapest ticket, so have your trigger finger ready when you see a good deal.
February 8, 2008, 10:02 AM
Farecast has begun to forecast ticket prices for 200 international routes for flights departing within the next six months.
January 29, 2008, 8:35 AM
This addictive trivia game measures your geographical knowledge—but it's so much cooler than it was in the 9th grade.
January 25, 2008, 11:12 AM
Schmap mashes up local listings with zoomable city maps—bookmark your faves for printing later.
January 15, 2008, 8:50 AM
The next time you're too embarrassed to ask a local about how to say "bathroom," this website could help.
December 27, 2007, 2:56 PM
Hidden inside of Google Earth's version 4.2 is a flight simulator, which allows you to feel like you're piloting an airplane over satellite images of the Earth's surface.
December 21, 2007, 9:35 AM
It's a merging of the minds, if you will; the two searching sites will share their best features.
December 19, 2007, 10:32 AM
In a new feature, Google invites you to type your airline name and flight number into its search box, and it will fetch the latest flight stats, such as whether your flight is delayed.
December 11, 2007, 10:50 AM
A new forecasting website claims it's the Magic 8 ball of nonstop routes.
December 10, 2007, 2:49 PM
So, which personality are you? Find out with this fun website—and you might learn a little bit about better ways for you to travel.
December 4, 2007, 2:48 PM
It can be hard to find a clean bathroom when you're traveling.
November 8, 2007, 3:10 PM
You can now see updated info on cloud cover, Doppler radar, temperatures, and weather forecasts for major cities worldwide—get all the goods here.
November 2, 2007, 11:49 AM
The social-networking site of the hour begats the NewsTracker.
October 23, 2007, 10:18 AM
Street Sensation has photos of every street in London—start virtually planning your trip now (or just waste some time at work).
October 19, 2007, 10:46 AM
Not only will TripIt organize your itinerary for you, but it'll also email you whatever you may need.
October 19, 2007, 10:23 AM
If you've got flexible travel plans and want to go somewhere exotic, test out this website to find the right trip for you.
October 17, 2007, 12:14 PM
We might be doing a little shameless self promotion, but please check us out on IgoUgo's best blogs list.
October 3, 2007, 11:20 AM
Which includes getting rid of a very persnickety charge.
September 18, 2007, 7:59 AM
TripIt, debuting today, will save you from the endless mountain of reservations, receipts, and confirmation numbers.
September 4, 2007, 5:34 PM
It's a brave new world, one where you can access real-time updates on what to do at the airport.
August 30, 2007, 11:49 AM
Lost in a sea of megapixels? Digital Photography Review offers thorough product testing and detailed reviews, so you can "try" before you buy.
August 29, 2007, 8:00 AM
Farecast is taking on hotels, and we feel like winners in the deal.
August 28, 2007, 6:02 PM
Sidestep.com is the latest of new websites offering fare-tracker and sale services.
August 8, 2007, 3:45 PM
Next time you're planning on hitting the highway, let MapQuest help.
July 30, 2007, 10:23 AM
Created 11 years ago, this site encourages people to travel with only one bag, as its name suggests.
July 25, 2007, 5:15 PM
More on this helpful website, which was founded in a roundabout way.
July 24, 2007, 7:46 AM
The success of Eurocheapo, a hotel review website, isn't exactly the world's greatest mystery.
July 12, 2007, 9:54 PM
The fare-searching site takes a little step into the "matrix."
June 28, 2007, 11:15 AM
Tours, shows, exhibits, and other activities are being booked by some travelers farther in advance than ever.
June 20, 2007, 7:48 AM
This website is the "Zagat guide for Muslims."
June 11, 2007, 9:05 AM
You can get insider tips about Las Vegas, as well as backpacking ideas and hotel information with these helpful websites.
May 22, 2007, 7:20 AM
Finding the cheapest airfare is a game—and often, a maddening one at that. A few websites have begun doing the searching for you.
May 21, 2007, 11:03 AM
One of the English-language's premier travel publications, online or in print, has been bought out by the TV conglomerate.
May 15, 2007, 9:01 AM
It's the crystal ball of airfare prices; Farecast came out of beta-testing today and added new features.
May 14, 2007, 1:44 PM
Scouting out a trip to New Zealand just got easier, thanks to the New Zealand tourism folks, who always seem to be ahead of the rest of the industry.
May 1, 2007, 9:11 AM
Google mashups, of course. New mashups highlight selected locations with boxes that fly over and display addresses and phone numbers.
April 30, 2007, 8:03 AM
America's top architectural wonders, US Airways' reservation system, a freebie, and more.
April 30, 2007, 7:23 AM
The tropical islands throw a bone to vacationers by changing its rules, and hotels respond.
April 24, 2007, 1:53 PM
Sick passengers, European railways, and a little bit of history.
April 23, 2007, 2:16 PM
Until now, there's been a common flaw with most Web travel agencies and fare-searching sites: They've been created by geeks.
April 23, 2007, 12:53 PM
New connections for smaller cities, our favorite food blogger, new websites, and more.
April 23, 2007, 9:31 AM
Gas prices continue to soar into the oblivion—but don't distress. We've got a few ways to ease the pain.
April 20, 2007, 2:05 PM
Looking for fares on the cheap is a maddening game. Let some of these sites do the work for you.
April 19, 2007, 2:44 PM
It might be better than just stuffing them in a shoe box ... either way, here are some websites that can help.
April 18, 2007, 7:49 PM
If you haven't heard of RSS feeds, you're in for a treat.
April 17, 2007, 12:54 PM
Ever wanted to go between the moon and New York City? At this site, you can browse hundreds of different places both familiar and fictional.
April 16, 2007, 12:15 PM
Figuring out hotels that are child-friendly is difficult in the U.S., let alone overseas.
April 13, 2007, 1:13 PM
We salute Gadling for spotlighting a new website, Urbanrail.net.