This allows the search engine to provide social media features so travelers can leverage their own social networks for hotel recommendations and travel deals.
These preferential deals violate the principle of "most-favoured nation" (MFN), which holds that any favour offered to one member must be offered to all.
France and Germany, who insist that Turkey should have a privileged partnership but not full EU membership, are only too happy to hide behind Cyprus's objections.
The hitch with this reasoning is that with Doha floundering and preferential deals proliferating, regionalism now has the upper hand; the two are no longer marching in tandem.
As for the best places to find travel deals, more than half (57%) of those surveyed said they would look online, either to online travel agent sites or search engines such as Google.
Bason: Hotels will continue to struggle with occupancy and the deals should remain great, especially in hard hit markets like Las Vegas, Arizona and Florida.
Surprisingly, the majority of respondents recommend using Twitter to find travel information such as deals and tips, only 9% suggest a consumer should not use it for trip planning;
France, he said, should be "flexible" over subsidies, but "unbending" in its demands for more regulation of market prices and for "community preference" (ie, favouring EU produce over imports).
France, he said, should be "flexible" over subsidies, but "unbending" in its demands for more regulation of market prices and for "community preference" (ie, favouring EU produce over imports).
