Travo weekly round-up #3

Here are the top stories by visits on the Travolution website for the week ending Friday 1 February 2008.

• Opodo profits to trigger investment in site.
• Sky picks Expedia-TripAdvisor for white label deal.
• Telegraph reviews travel search business.
• Cheapflights will not be rushed into float decision.
• WAYN approach over sale - but not by AOL.

Best of the blogs:

• Google Suggest, from Les Exploers.
• 10 questions for tour operators, from Musings.
• Microsoft-Yahoo dino deal, from Buzzmachine.
• Facebook apps on any site, from TechCrunch.
• SEO millionaire, from SearchEngineWatch.

Please post and further recommendations in the comments section.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

++Big Story Alert - TripAdvisor and Expedia work together++

UK media giant Sky has persuaded Expedia and TripAdvisor to put into practice what many have seen as one of the most valuable ways to utilise two market leading brands.

Combine the two to provide a very good white label deal for a third party.

Sky's travel channel will have flights, hotels, car hire and city breaks search and booking functionality provided by Expedia and user reviews from TripAdvisor.

Makes sense really...

Full story.

Kevin May, editor, Travolution

Travolution Autumn Conf: Sky to relaunch travel channel

We've just heard from Charlie Redmayne, head of commercial parnerships in BSkyB's online business unit - and among other things, he revealed that Sky is to relaunch its online and TV travel channels in December.

Watch this space...