This week......Last chance to enter our Big 10 comp, Fake reviews on TripAdvisor and hotel puts iPad in every room!

It’s a start of another new week and to get you ready for the week ahead we’ve picked the top news of all things travel and technology for you. We’ll also fill you in with all that's been going on here at the CWT Digital office. Hope you enjoy!

CWT Digital News:

TTG Awards- 25th July- We are still eagerly awaiting to hear if we’ve been shortlisted for the TTG Awards, we will update you as soon as we hear!

Big 10 keeps going strong-25th July- Remember you can still apply to win a free email marketing campaign as part of the Big 10. The prize includes a free consultation, a free email template design and we will send out the the campaign for you! You have till the 29th July to apply to be in with a chance of winning. You can check T&C’s and apply here!

Travel News:

Hotels seeking fake reviews for TripAdvisor- 25th July- A report in the Sunday Times this weekend revealed that there is a market for fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Adverts on sites such as freelancer.com have been found which offer sums of money for journalists to write fake reviews on TripAdvisor with different email and I.P addresses. There have been ads found which offer as little as £3 a review. TripAdvisor have always claimed that they take fake reviews very seriously and police the site very strictly, but this report will obviously damage the reputation of the site.

Cruise News: Greek taxi strike disrupts cruise holidays- 22nd July- Several cruise holidays were forced to a hault last week as taxi drivers created a blockade on the ports of Corfu and Heraklion in Crete. The taxi drivers were protesting in reaction to the government liberalising their sector.

On the Beach offer ATOL-22nd July- On the Beach becomes the first ever online agent to achieve a Air Travel Organisers Licence (ATOL). The licence covers up to 300,000 holidaymakers. On the Beach decided to apply for the licence after carrying out research with their customers and discovered that added protection is something that they wanted.

Technology News:

London hotel puts iPad 2 in every room- 25th July- London hotel Ecclestone Square is trying to claim the title of most tech-savy hotel in Europe by adding IPad 2 into everyone of it’s rooms. The iPads will be used to control room temperature, lights, curtain control, room service, restaurant booking, spa reservations as well as provide information about the hotel and local area. The hotel is set to be opened on the 1st August with prices starting from £250 a night.

Google+ reaches 20 million users- 22nd July- Still in it’s infancy Google+ has already hit the 20 million mark. According to a recent reports 60% of it’s users are 18-25 and of that 2 million 63% are male. It’s very interesting that the majority of members are in the young age bracket, does this suggest that it’s a young fad, or that the older generation are yet to catch on? The growth of Google+ has been the quickest of any other internet development including Twitter in 2009 when it went from 4 million users to 20 million in a matter of months.

That's all from us this week, we hope you found all of our picks useful, remember if you want to keep in touch with us throughout the week then you can follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Have a great week!