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Facebook versus Google Travel, the upcoming travel wars?
With Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel stocks hovering just above the basement, news of Facebook and Google dancing around the travel niche cannot be thrilling. Online travel is about to take off like a rocket. For some that is.
Google’s announcement of the acquisition of ITA signaled the cocking of the proverbial hammer, if you [...]
Kiwi Collection Launches Refreshed WOW Travel: A Digital Travel & Lifestyle Magazine
To coincide with its new brand and website launch, Kiwi Collection has re-imagined WOW Travel as an inspirational travel and lifestyle publication for those looking to expand their horizons.
Continuing to stand as a trusted resource for discovering and booking the world’s most exceptional hotels, Kiwi Collection has set out to create a new industry standard [...]
World Cup boost expected for South African hoteliers
South Africa welcomed the world when the FIFA World Cup kicked off 11 June 2010. Data fromSTR Global, the leading provider of market information to the global hotel industry, shows that prior to the start of the tournament and in-line with many other parts of the world, the country’s revenue per available room (RevPAR) has begun [...]
Island Routes Caribbean Adventure Tours partners with Fiesta Hotel Group in Jamaica
Island Routes Caribbean Adventure Tours has announced an exciting new partnership with theFiesta Hotel Group to offer exclusive, luxury catamaran tours to guests at the at the hotel group’s two resorts in Montego Bay, Jamaica: the Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort and Spa and the Grand Palladium Lady Hamilton Resort and Spa.
“We are very excited to [...]
Mexico Tourism Board Offers Fams to Cancun
The Mexico Tourism Board, throughwww.magicofmexico.com, is offering fam trips to Cancunthroughout 2010.
The 2010 program will include deluxe lodging, transfers, most meals, excursions and property inspections. Agents will receive “air-aid” of $400 to help lower the trip cost. The Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau will hand fam trip participants a $400 check to help offset air travel expenses, regardless [...]
lastminute.com reveals the future of travel
UK’s lastminute.com has partnered with think-tank Future Foundation to understand how the way we travel and spend our free time will be changing in the future.
Trekking the landscape of a brand new country, staying in a technological black hole where your phone will never ring, and pushing the limits of ‘extreme adventures’ further than ever [...]
The power of social media “massive”, says AirAsia
Last November’s “free sale” through its Facebook fan page broke two daily records and saved the airline millions of ringgit in advertising spend. Regional head of commercial Kathleen Tan tells Yeoh Siew Hoon about AirAsia’s social media strategy.
Kathleen Tan, AirAsia’s regional head of commercial, herself did not know how massive social media would become when [...]
Travelocity Business seeks growth in changing industry
“Clearly 2009 was a tough year,” Yannis Karmis, president of Travelocity Business, said in an interview with Travel Agent. “Among other things it focused businesses attention on their travel expenses and how effectively travel was being managed to produce a return on invested assets. Cost pressures will remain in 2010, as will pricing volatility.”
Karmis, a 12-year Sabre Holdings veteran [...]
Obama signs Travel Promotion Act
President Barack Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act (TPA) into law today, ending a multi-year legislative journey that now embarks upon the legislation’s implementation phase.
“Thank you, Mr. President, for your signature today—the American lodging industry will take the opportunities given through this legislation and make the most of it,” remarked American Hotel & Lodging Association [...]
Hawaii tourism’s signs of recovery reach Neighbor Islands
the Neighbor Islands, hardest hit by the state’s prolonged tourism slump, are finally beginning to see signs of recovery.
Visitor arrivals and spending rose statewide in January for the second month in a row, led by gains on the Big Island, Maui and Kaua’i, the Hawai’i Tourism Authority reported yesterday. It was the first time since [...]
