TripAdvisor acquires luxury travel site Jetsetter from Gilt Groupe

Popular travel advice and booking site TripAdvisor has acquired luxury travel site Jetsetter from Gilt Groupe for an undisclosed sum.

Google to buy Frommer’s to boost travel content and local reviews

Google will soon purchase travel-focused content provider Frommer's in a bid to boost its number of local reviews from around the world.

Kayak’s IPO finally takes off with shares priced at $22 to $25

Travel search site Kayak‘s long-delayed IPO looks like it will finally lift off, as the company filed an amended S-1 Monday morning that prices its shares at $23 to $25 a pop.

The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally …

TripAdvisor launches Facebook app for foodies, dines with Yelp and Foursquare

Travel recommendations company TripAdvisor is moving to restaurant review row and taking a seat next to Yelp and Foursquare with the release of Local Picks, a Facebook application for discovering dining recommendations from friends and locals.

Local Picks, launched Wednesday …

Google Flight Search takes off around the world

Google’s Flight Search app has gone global with new support to check out and compare flights from the U.S. to destinations including Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Venice.

Google debuted its flight search tool in September and starting placing flight search …

Orbitz, Kayak think Google is abusing its power with travel search

Peak holiday travel may be near its end, but the battle for online travel search is just heating up, with Google’s recently launched flight search tools angering competitors.

Google debuted its flight search tool in September and starting placing its …

Mygola wants to bring back the travel agent, grabs $1M in funding

Remember travel agents? Remember how the Internet gave everyone the power to plan their own trips, and then there weren’t any more travel agents? Mygola is a hoping the hassle of researching and booking a vacation online brings the trend …