Tnooz Nuggets – Wednesday 3 August 2011

This is the regular Tnooz roundup of product news from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry, all with a technology, online and digital twist – Wednesday 3 August 2011.

• Egencia, Expedia’s corporate travel unit, introduced Egencia Mobile, an iPhone app offering itinerary management, flight alerts and schedules, online check-in and a click-to-call feature to connect to the agency for customer service. The app for Egencia customers is available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, India and nine countries in Europe.

• Gogo, the U.S. in-flight Wi-Fi provider, says 65% of the users of its mobile service are iPhone customers. Meanwhile, owners of Android devices make up 12% of its in-flight users, Blackberry users number 6%, and the remaining 2% of users consist of Windows phones and all other mobile devices.


• Travel metasearch Skyscanner inked a partnership with Aeroflot, the Russian airline, enabling Skyscanner users to retrieve Aeroflot’s fares.


• Hg2, which bills itself as offering “a luxury city guide series for travelers who value both style and substance, says it is making all of its content, including 20,000 images and 12,000 reviews available for free. “Where once only hotel reviews were available as tantalising tasters, the paywall has come down to open up an entire world of travel inspiration,” the company says. Hg2 city guides are available on the Web, as dowloadable PDFs, through iPhone apps and on HP tablets.