Online travel specialist travelmatch.co.uk is reporting seeing an unexpected sudden climb in searches from its customers for holidays to Cyprus since the start of June.

In a first, online travel agents (OTAs) have been sued and lost over the issue of transient occupancy taxes (per night tax charges in hotels) after years of underpaying

A UK study with Google and comScore is showing that travelers are getting smarter when they're looking for vacation bookings online. Over 20 million travelers used search engines and online travel consolidators to find trips in the last 3 months of 2007.

It's been all about air fares lately. With the weather being its worst self for most of March, I wrote three articles on getting cheaper air fares. And cinema tickets, learning Swedish, online travel tools, being an ex-pat and staying healthy in Mexico.

The internet is the best place to find cheap airfares. While online travel agencies, or 'travel consolidators', lack the attention and service of a traditional travel agent, the ease of price comparison is unbeatable.