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Expedia, the world's largest online travel company, reported last week a 27% increase in the number of travel bookings being made to Africa and the Indian Ocean regions on Expedia and Hotels.com travel sites over the past 12 months....

Travelmole.com - TripAdvisor advertises itself as the “most trusted” site but has recently fallen victim to hackers. ...

Qatar Airways and Kenya Tourist Board have sealed a deal designed to increase the number of Chinese travellers going flying to Kenya. ...

South Africa Tourism (SAT) is going to be one of the most socially busy brands in the worldwide travel landscape. Joining hands with dedicated travel and lifestyle social network WAYN.com, SAT looks forward to growing its fan base across the globe, while bringing into line its sales and marketing strategies with the intentions of broadcasting its following....

Travellers wanting to patronize National Carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) will now have access to the airline’s full inventory of flights and fares, including web fares. ...

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Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and already operating both the Galileo and Worldspan global distribution systems (GDS), declared the details of its new, one stop leisure portal for travel agents. Appropriately named, Travelport Leisure, the new travel trade portal is an improved edition of its former Galileo Leisure portal, first launched in 2005. The GDS provider was prompted to make additional investment in its Galileo Leisure offering due the ongoing growth potential of global leisure travel spends that is expected to be nearing $700bn mark by 2014....

Expedia.co.uk, the leading online travel booking site in the UK, has joined hands with Google to provide a street view of the hotels on their website. Google Street View technology integrated into the Expedia UK website enables consumers to view a hotel as if they were standing right in front of it on the street....

PARIS, May 25, 2010 - Ericsson, one of the world's leading providers of technology and services to telecom operators, has selected Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) to manage its travel program in 30 countries around the world. ...

Emirates airline and Travelport, one of the world's leading global distribution system (GDS) providers, today signed a major global content agreement that will provide all Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan-connected travel agents with access to the airline's full inventory of flights and fares....