Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for March 2nd 2010

• When Is a Credit Card Holder Not a Cardholder? – Smarter Travel has posted some info about skymiles credit card: Kat's husband has a SkyMiles credit card, but Delta and American Express are denying him a standard cardholder benefit. Tim Winship reads the fine print.

  Head over to www.smartertravel.com to read the whole article.

• Yelp accused of extortion – Sean O'Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:

  A handful of business owners recently filed a class-action lawsuit against user-review site Yelp. The companies accuse the site of offering to remove negative reviews for advertising fees. In a statement, Yelp denied the allegations.