This week... Awards have been won, Stelios introduces Fastjet and Google work with the Prime Minister to create Silicon Roundabout

Another very busy week has come and gone and we have lots to fill you in on. Awards have been won, our Big 10 Competition is still going strong and we’re all working hard as normal. To kick start your week we’ve picked out the best industry news for travel and technology this week. We hope you enjoy!!

CWT Digital News:

TTG Awards-26th September- We are very pleased to announce that CWT Digital were named the winners of the TTG Award for Travel Service Provider of the Year last Thursday. We managed to fight off some very fierce competition in the form of Dolphin Dynamics, Teletext Holidays and Travelport to name a few. We are very proud to be given this very prestigious award and strive to keep up our hard work and dedication that got us here. You can see the full list of winners and pictures of the night on the TTG site.

Our new site- 26th September- Have you noticed we’ve changed our site? CWT Digital have redesigned our site with a new fresh look as well as added in more detailed content about what we do. Check out the site for yourself.

Big 10- 26th September- Our Big 10 competition for a free PPC Audit has now closed. We had some great entries and we will be announcing a winner shortly. Our next Big 10 will be a mobile Web App which we will be launching in the next few weeks.

Travel News:

Stelios to launch rival brand- 26th September- The ongoing dispute with Easyjet founder Sir Stelios and EasyJet has reached new tensions with the founder revealing plans to launch a rival airline FastJet. The website FastJet.com has already been created, which is currently a waiting page with the text ‘Fastjet.com by Stelios. Coming soon!’. EasyJet have released a statement in reaction to the news stating that ‘EasyJet will take necessary action to protect the rights of EasyJet and the interests of its shareholders’. Whether the launch of FastJet will go ahead is still in question, if it does it is questioned if the industry would welcome another low cost carrier or if EasyJet are simply too big to compete with.

TripAdvisor forms partnership with Fodor- 23rd September- TripAdvisor has extended it’s services by collaborating with Fordor the travel guidebook specialist. The partnership means that users on TripAdvisor will gain access to Fodors destination tips and advice on reviewed destinations and users on the Fodor site will gain access to the TripAdvisor rating. The news comes 6 months after TripAdvisor built up their tour and activity content with GetYourGuide.



Technology News:

How Facebook’s changes will effect your fan page- 24th September- As we’re sure you’ve noticed Facebook has rolled out it’s new features across profiles now, something which travel companies with Facebook pages now need to be aware of. Users can now choose to filter their news feed so that they can receive all, some or none of your updates as well as add you into lists. One thing that is expected to have a massive impact is the introduction of Open Graph and Facebook gestures apps which was announced last week at the F8 conference. The apps will enable users to share what they are doing exactly to their networks such as ‘I just booked this hotel’, ‘I am traveling here’ etc. The idea is to develop sharing content on Facebook further than just a like button.

Google to open new centre in London-28th September-In response to David Cameron’s Tech City Vision Google have released plans to open a ‘technology community centre’ in London’s East End. The seven floor building will act as a shared space for the growing Internet companies within the area. The Prime Minister’sTech City vision to create a ‘Silicon Roundabout’ to rival that of the Silicon Valley in the US has been funded with £400m government funding and has support from leading technology firms such as BT, Cisco, Facebook and Google.


That's all we have for you this week, we hope you enjoyed our picks of the industry and have set you up for the rest of the week. As always you can follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook if you want to keep up with us during the week.