Travel Weekly Blog

TW is at the Travolution Summit today. Highlights have included a talk by Robert Torres, Google MD of advertising and marketing for the North American travel sector, and an onstage interview with Steve Hafner, co founder and CEO of Kayak.

The audience has just been treated to a demo of an application that has been developed by BA.com - based on pictures, maps etc. No transaction elelment until the end of the process - very good-looking but still in development. Could be live some time this year.

Intriguingly BA.com general manager Carsten Willert said BA is working on a blog for senior execs to communicate with consumers...

Martin Couzins, online editor