TrustYou Sabre Red App Uses Single Score to Aggregate Guest Reviews

TrustYou, the online reputation management (ORM) and travel technology company has announced a new app to travel agents. The TrustYou Sabre Red App, which will be available to travel agents through the Sabre Red App Centre, allows travel agents to see a hotel ranking through guest feedback across all major user-generated review sites in one score. The technology draws the scores and feedback from sites like TripAdvisor, Yelp!, Google+ and more, and brings it into a centralized “TrustScore.”

Source: TravelPulse.com - May 17, 2013 / © 2013 travAlliancemedia

Gogo License Expands On Board WiFi Access Possibilities

Gogo, the inflight wireless provider, announced on May 14 that the FCC had granted the company a blanket license to operate up to 1,000

Source: TravelPulse.com - May 14, 2013 / © 2013 travAlliancemedia

How Low Can You Go?: Hotwire Launches Trip Watcher.com, Airfare Alert Site

Hotwire.com has announced the launch of TripWatcher.com, its new real-time airfare price alert website. Hotwire says that the site will bring “previously unadvertised savings to trip planners” and expands on the existing Hotwire.com tool with customizable, storable data through a “My Trips Section” and the ability to notify subscribers of deals and price drops in real time via e mail, Facebook and Twitter.

Source: TravelPulse.com - May 14, 2013 / © 2013 travAlliancemedia

Delta Wins Dismissal in Phone App Privacy Law Case

Bloomberg News reports that Delta Air Lines has won a dismissal in an online privacy law case in California. The lawsuit, brought by California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, claimed that Delta violated the State’s privacy law since its mobile-phone app didn’t let users know that personal information, including their location, was being collected.

Source: TravelPulse.com - May 14, 2013 / © 2013 travAlliancemedia

Hipmunk Inaugurates Direct Hotel Booking on Web and Mobile Apps

Hipmunk, the travel search site, has announced that its users can now book their hotel stay directly with Hipmunk through its web and mobile applications.

Source: TravelPulse.com - May 12, 2013 / © 2013 travAlliancemedia