As travel costs and challenges rising Travelocity CEO urges industry to re-focus on customer service

SOUTHLAKE, Texas – June 9, 2008 – Travelocity President and CEO Michelle Peluso, an advocate for greater industry focus and collaboration on customer service, is leading a renewed effort to improve the lives of the traveling public. “Because consumers are dealing with rising costs in many sectors of the economy,… [Read More]

Travelocity gnome abducted from NU’s Transportation Center

A crime likely unprecedented in Northwestern’s 156 years of existence has hit campus: “gnomenapping.” Travelocity’s two-foot tall, inanimate spokesperson - the Roaming Gnome - was delivered to the Transportation Center on Thursday. It sat in the lobby Thursday and Friday while Sabre Holdings, the company that operates Travelocity, held interviews… [Read More]

Booking.com partners with Flybaboo

Booking.com, Europe’s leading online hotel reservations’ company (part of priceline.com Nasdaq PCLN), has partnered with Flybaboo, a Swiss airline company based in Geneva. Flybaboo operates scheduled services to 15 destinations in France, Italy, Croatia and Spain departing from Geneva, proposing also summer flights and charter services. As a result of… [Read More]

Booking.com Joins Forces with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Cambridge, 25 September, 2007 Booking.com, Europe’s leading online hotel reservations’ company (part of Priceline.com, Nasdaq:PCLN) has been selected by KLM (part of Air France-KLM, the largest European airline group), as strategic partner for the distribution of hotels. As a result, visitors to http://www.klm.com can now choose from over 35,000 hotels… [Read More]