Rome2rio offers instant pricing for every component of journey
Travel search site, Rome2rio, in a major upgrade, now delivers estimated fares for air, train, taxi and other transport elements – door to door - in all search results.“That means a trip that begins with a shuttle to the airport, then a flight, a train from the destination airport to a regional [...]
HomeAway, travelmob form strategic partnership
HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), the world’s leading online marketplace of holiday rentals, entered into a partnership today (21 March) with travelmob, a leading social stay marketplace matching the owners and managers of dedicated holiday rental properties with travellers seeking to book holiday [...]
Keeping it 100% Pure but adding people and driving digital key to TNZ’s strategy in Asia
One of the first things Kevin Bowler, chief executive of Tourism New Zealand, did when he came into the job three years ago was to ensure the images of the 100% Pure campaign that appeared in markets in Asia had people in it.“It’s a very successful campaign, 13 years now, but it tended to be foc [...]
ImpulseFlyer offers year-round bookability to satisfy time-starved customers
ImpulseFlyer, the private flash sale site, has launched a collection of luxury and boutique hotels under the “ImpulseFlyer Collection” bookable by its members year-round.Explaining the reason for offering year-round bookabality, Steven Gong, chief executive officer, said, “With our initial off [...]
MakeMyTrip reports 24.5% revenue growth in 3Q
MakeMyTrip Limited (Nasdaq:MMYT), India's leading online travel company, announced its unaudited financial and operating results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2012.Gross bookings for Hotels and packages increased by 67.2% yoy in 3Q13. Gross bookings for Air ticketing increased by 3 [...]
Top travel websites for November: Australia, China
In Australia, Wotif remains top OTA while Qantas and TripAdvisor regain the top spot in their respective category; in China, Qunar loses its lead to Ctrip, MaFengWo continues to rule, China Southern Airlines takes back its #1 position. (Full details in slides below)AustraliaThe top three online [...]
Aussies lead in mobile flight search, followed by Singaporeans
After Australia, Singapore (left) leads the way in mobile use for travel planning, reveals flight search site Skyscanner as the world’s second most mobile nation of travel planners.Australia is the only country more likely to plan their travel on a mobile device than at their desktop, while Sing [...]
Felix Laboy, Morris Sim: What’s in store for hotels in 2013
The president of Sabre Hospitality and CEO of Circos Brand Karma share their take on hotel trends to watch in the next 12 months.Felix Laboy, President, Sabre HospitalityQ: What are the three things you think will happen in the hotel space in 2013? • RevPar will continue to grow, driven primarily [...]
A generational change is gonna come – in a big way
The French have an expression "plus ça change". This means roughly – the more things change the more they stay the same.The travel industry goes through cycles of change. This is driven by a lot of factors. But in the end, travel is about the experience or the utility of leisure or business tra [...]
The Wrap: 2012’s holiday leisure bookings set to overtake 2011’s
In the news: Pegasus Solutions’ findings on leisure travel, MAS shops for ATRs, Chinese language website for RCI members2012’s holiday leisure bookings set to overtake 2011’sLeisure hotel bookings for the 2012 holiday season are expected to outpace 2011, according to Pegasus Solutions. These [...]
