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Orbitz today released its annual Labor Day edition of the Orbitz Insider Index, ranking the most popular destinations for travelers on the last long weekend of the summer vacation season. Big cities such as New York, Las Vegas and Chicago top the list this year.

Unique Industry-Leading Program Issues More Than 170,000 Price Assurance Automatic Cash Refunds in Three Years

Consumers are finding fewer hotel rooms for sale on Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline and other online travel agencies now that travel's improving.

The Orbitz Insider Index today announced the top 10 destinations for Spring Break and released results of a survey revealing consumer travel habits for Spring 2011.

Index also provides 2010 travel retrospective with the most booked destinations, busiest travel weeks and most popular travel routes

Travelport has taken American Airlines to court over the airline’s threat to sever ties to Orbitz. The lawsuit, which is sprinkled with rather vehement language, asks the court to prevent American from pulling its inventory from Orbitz on Dec. 1 until a judge issues a ruling.

Even as the integrity of consumer reviews comes under fire, Orbitz has opened its hotel reviews to people who may - or may not have - stayed at the property.

Orbitz now enables detailed side-by-side hotel comparisons upfront on the search results page

Report Finds That 70 percent of Business Travelers Say They Feel Personally Obligated to Save Their Company Money

Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:OWW) today announced the appointment of Jeremy Bellinghausen as president of HotelClub (www.HotelClub.com), effective immediately. Jeremy joins HotelClub from R.H. Donnelley, where he served as vice president of advertiser products and general manager of Business.com. Jeremy succeeds Chloe Lim, who is leaving HotelClub to pursue other opportunities.