tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58674792012-01-28T08:15:23.682ZSelection of the top travel industry news, handpicked not scraped!Jennienoreply@blogger.comBlogger12161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867479.post-66048816219192705212009-01-01T07:28:00.000Z2009-01-01T07:28:46.588Z

Travel Report: Despite Economy, Online Travel Continues to Grow: "Despite the recent economic news, people aren't ready to give up their vacation. New reports from PhoCusWright (www.phocuswright.com), a respected industry research firm, say more people booked online travel during 2008 than years before. PhoCusWright Vice President of Research Lorraine Sileo says, “online [ticket] sales will

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TTN447 - Kayak boss Steve Hafner does not SideStep the issue - Travel Trends - Incorporating the TRAVELtech and No Vacancy Travel Industry Conferences: "Kayak boss Steve Hafner doesn’t mince words. When asked what economies of scale were generated by Kayak’s acquisition of SideStep, another travel search engine, Hafner replied: “There were 120 employees when we bought them … three of those remain

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Positive thinking . . . Travel Report: Despite Economy, Online Travel Continues to Grow: "Despite the recent economic news, people aren't ready to give up their vacation. New reports from PhoCusWright (www.phocuswright.com), a respected industry research firm, say more people booked online travel during 2008 than years before. PhoCusWright Vice President of Research Lorraine Sileo says, “online

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e-Travel Blackboard: Falling Aussie Dollar Forces 70% of Travellers To Reconsider their Overseas PlansTotaltravel.com recently conducted a survey which asked the question: “Given the falling Aussie Dollar, are you planning any overseas holidays?” The survey, which attracted 980 respondents, found that the falling Aussie dollar has forced more than 70 percent of Australian travellers to reconsider

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Online travel growth dips to single digits-05 December, 2008: "Online travel growth dips to single digits Growth of online leisure and unmanaged business travel dipped into single digits this year, according to market tracker Phocuswright. The company says this is the first time since it began recording online travel sales in 1998 that this has happened. However, online travel annual growth

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Hospitality Net - Industry News - Is the Travel Industry Headed Toward Another Wallop? | PhoCusWright FYI: "With the global credit markets in crisis, stock markets fluctuating, fuel prices erratic and a recession looming, the travel industry is gloomy. Companies quickly shifted into belt-tightening gear and if they're not feeling the pinch now—they're at least preparing for a long, cold winter

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Motley fool report that "customers - particularly those of a thrill-seeking disposition - need to scan the small print with a gimlet eye before signing a travel insurance policy, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said today."Most exclude high-risk sports so "If you're planning to go white-water rafting down the Colorado River or something, your bog-standard travel policy won't cover you."

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Internet travel news reports that "TOTALTRAVEL.COM.AU has been voted the best travel website in Australia for the second year in a row by Australian NetGuide magazine. Australian NetGuide awarded TotalTravel.com.au the best the Best Travel/Tourism Site award in its annual NetGuide Australian Web Awards for 2006. The results appear in the April edition of Australian NetGuide magazine. Other

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e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter: "An online survey conducted by travel guide and directory TotalTravel.com has shown that Australian travellers are divided over whether airport security checks are tough enough five years after 9/11."

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e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter: "Fast-growing destination website company TotalTravel.com has made its first international move by launching TotalTravel sites in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Marketing Director Paul Fisher said other offshore sites will follow. �There�ll certainly be others,� he said. �We�re looking at markets that make sense �

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Illustrates the ever increasing importance of search engine optimisation ans search engine marketing in the online travel sector:All Aboard the SEM Train: "Roman Godzich, a man with an incredible sense of wit that is only outweighed by his search engine marketing knowledge. As the vice president of e-business for Rail Europe, Godzich has his search strategy down to a science. One of the biggest

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Bambi Francisco, MarketWatch, reckons competition and innovation in the online travel sector is hotting up concluding from her analysis of Cityseearch that "The ones who'll survive in this user-generated glut are those who can keep the users not only on their site, but also producing" Citysearch touts human touch in local ad competition - MarketWatch: "Citysearch touts human relations: Staying

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Yahoo steps up its challenge to travel websites....seems to only be for USA....All Headline News - Yahoo Improves Travel Planning Via Search And Maps - April 15, 2006: "Yahoo Inc. is introducing an upgraded travel service Tuesday that blends Yahoo search with handy travel-specific features, stepping up its challenge to dedicated travel sites.Using Yahoo's central search site, consumers can

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Booking by telephone continues to drop - a death knell for pay per call perhaps - while branded websites share of direct bookings grows...what does this mean for independent hotels that are not part of a large brand? Answer - get on a merchant website... Travelers Head to Hotel Websites: "More travelers than ever are booking at hotels' own websites. Last year, according to TravelCLICK, branded

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Web travel bookings cut out middlemen - Breaking News - National - Breaking News: "Paul Fisher, a spokesman for travel information website Totaltravel.com, said he believed Australia would follow the trend of the United States because suppliers and consumers were getting smarter and more sophisticated in seeking better rates.'We are finding that people are going to sites like ours, getting the

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Gear Factor: "MapQuest is showing off a new wireless app that does more than display 2-inch maps on your screen. MapQuest Navigator works with your phone's built-in GPS to give you real-time, turn-by-turn, voice-guided directions to just about any destination. GPS navigation is by no means new to the cellular world, but the launch of a major solution like this by an established mapping service

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Best Travel Sites - Forbes.com: "After the dot-com bubble burst five years ago, practically the only Web companies that didn�t vanish were the travel sites....Travelocity had revenue of $830 million on bookings of $7.4 billion in 2005. What bubble?......According to Harteveldt, online leisure travel is the largest e-commerce category (excluding porn), and in the U.S. it is projected to generate

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Introducing the travel genie - Sunday Times - Times Online: "Let�s say you�re one of the millions who use low-cost airlines. To get the best deals, you need to know when EasyJet, Ryanair or Flybe introduce new routes or special fares. In the past, that meant signing up to each of their e-mail newsletters. Not any more. Instead, you can go to Cheapflights.co.uk and subscribe to its RSS feed, which

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Poor navigation worst problem for travel sites...Most travel sites 'atrocious', says website expert-ry--J.: "Most travel sites 'atrocious', says website expert...The vast majority of travel websites are "atrocious" and lose business because they are impossible to navigate, a web specialist has claimed. Craig Hanna, training director at consultancy firm E-Consultancy, accused 95% of websites of "

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e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter: "January was a record month for Totaltravel.com registering 885,437 visits to the site, up 33 per cent from the previous month. "Suppliers are getting better at finding ways to directly access customers, while users have become more sophisticated in seeking better deals,� spokesman of Totaltravel.com, Paul Fisher said....Consumers

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Morgans Hotel founder Schrager getting payday in IPO - MarketWatch: "Morgans Hotel Group founder Ian Schrager will receive about $9 million in stock through an entity he controls as well as money for a jet, a full-time car driver and other perks as the boutique hotel chain goes public on Valentine's Day.MHGC0.00, 0.00, 0.0%) plans to offer 18 million shares at $19 to $21 per share in a bid to

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Travelocity has added what is being termed as a one-of-a-kind booking feature to its Last Minute Packages portion of the site that will make it easier than ever for family and friends to connect...The patent pending Meet Me In...online tool allows consumers traveling from two departure cities to meet in a common destination

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "VC's invest in 2 Indian online travel CompaniesIn an another development underlining the burgeoning online travel segment in India, venture capital fund WestBridge Capital Partners has decided to back Travelguru, a technology-enabled travel company....As per the plans, customers will be able to book their travel across 300

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channel4.com - News: "Employees spend too much time surfing the internet for holiday bargains, costing the industry �2.5 billion a year in lost productivity, it has been claimed. And the average British workers checks six different sites before deciding which holiday to choose, the survey said. And it added that four out of five workers spend an average of 25 hours booking or researching a

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The Courier-Mail: Flight's fees model 'outdated' [13jan06]: "AILING travel agency group Flight Centre has been dealt another blow, with its former e-commerce chief labelling the commission model its business relies on as outdated.Paul Fisher, who now works with totaltravel.com, said travel and tourism suppliers were increasingly looking to go directly to the Internet to do business with their

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Totaltravel.com achieves record results-20-Dec-05.: "Totaltravel.com, the number one site for Australian's seeking information about destinations, has achieved record results with the highest ever figures for email enquiries and phone number requests and 223,000 click-throughs directly to supplier websites last month"

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The top 50 entrepreneurs of 2005: "David Soskin A serial entrepreneur, Soskin has made a habit of buying into companies and turning them around. Currently Chief Executive of Cheapflights.com, Soskins reign has seen a 67% rise in visitors to the discount fare providers website in 2005, coupled with healthy profits. A regular guest on TV and radio shows, Soskin has become an authoritative voice on

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e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter: "Totaltravel.com has announced it achieved record results last month with the highest ever figures for email enquiries and phone number requests, and 223,000 click-throughs directly to supplier websites last month."... In November totaltravel.com referred a record number of customers on directly to travel suppliers and advertisers,

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:: Travel Weekly - The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry ::: Much of the future of travel search, observers agree, depends on how search engines like Google and portals like Yahoo and AOL play their hands. Google is downplaying its test of a flight links feature, which offers one-at-a-time searches of online agency booking engines, saying it is merely trying to improve consumers?

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Latest Nielsen NetRatings research statistics for online travel reviewed by Netimperative show over 50s flock to travel websites: "More than half (54%) of Brit Web users have visited a travel site representing over 14 million people every month, with the over 50s market booming, according to new research. The figures, from Internet research firm Nielsen//NetRatings, show a growth of 20%

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AboveNet Prepares for the Launch of www.totaltravel.co.uk: LONDON, November 16 /PRNewswire/ -- AboveNet Communications UK Ltd., a leading provider of fibre connectivity solutions for business and a subsidiary of AboveNet Inc., today announced that it has been chosen to provide totaltravel.com International, Australia's number one internet travel site, with its European internet infrastructure for

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: Luke McNeice, chief technology officer, Bezurk says "still early days for travel meta-search engines in Europe, with lots of start ups and 'no real dominant players yet... "Certainly the biggest development in meta-search is the strategic move by the general search engines to either partner or buy into the meta search space, look

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e-Travel Blackboard: Australia's Number One Industry Newsletter: "Totaltravel.com, the number one site for Australians seeking information about destinations, has appointed Flight Centres former eCommerce Australia chief as its new global marketing manager. Paul Fisher was responsible for developing five of Australia's top travel websites including flightcentre.com.au, Australia's no.1 travel

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "TravelCLICK Inc. has acquired Vantis International Corporation. The acquisition of travel reservations and marketing services firm will provide the Vantis customer base of over 5,000 hotels worldwide with access to an exclusive combination of decision-support services and technology that is proven to increase both hotel revenue

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WriteClick – A New Database Of Travel Writers & Photographers travmedia.com "A DYNAMIC new database of travel writers and photographers in Australia and around the world is poised to enhance the way in which the tourism and travel media industries conduct business. The website, which includes more than 150 freelancers, aims to provide tourism organisations and public relations professionals

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Fibromyalgia blog: "Thursday, October 20, 2005"

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Totaltravel Australia shows up on Google news search..... Google Search: totaltravel: "Travel and Entertainment Seekers on totaltravel.com.au ..." Press Releases - Directions Magazine: " totaltravel.com.au, Australia’s largest online travel guide, today announced the deployment of Multimap’s online maps on its site to enable users to view detailed, interactive maps of tens of thousands of

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TravelMole - The News and Resource Centre for the Travel Industry: "Best web based agencywww.lastminute.com Shortlisted:www.iglu.com www.ebookers.com www.totaltravel.co.uk"The criteria for these awards are to recognise those who do the simple things right, often the most difficult task any of use face. In online terms this means clear purpose, easy navigation, effective and aesthetically-pleasing

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Online Travel Marketing: Web Certain launches online travel marketing blog: "Web Certain, which has a wide range of travel clients, has launched an online travel marketing blog to keep travel web marketers up to date with the most important and relevant, travel news"

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "OAG, a provider of flight schedules and online travel information, has entered into a partnership with lastminute.com to distribute real-time flight status information directly to mobile devices"

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis Site59, the Travelocity owned lastminute travel provider, has today launched the "Meet Me In." travel coordinator, a new, patent-pending online tool that enables family and friends to connect by travelling from two departure cities to a common destination with one convenient, discounted travel package.

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Internet Travel News - All European Online Travel Buyers Not Created Equal: "They access many of the same travel sites and visit many of the same places, but European online travel buyers differ in the ways they purchase their holiday travel. According to findings from PhoCusWright's Online Travel Shopping and Buying Behavior: Key European Markets survey, 8 out of 10 U.K. online travelers use

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Internet Travel News - Opodo CEO Says Being Number One Isnt the Be All and End All: "During the PhoCusWright Executive Conference, Simon Vincent, CEO, Opodo, outlined Opodo’s key strategy in moving forwards to transform the business... Opodo have developed a supplier friendly hotel and accommodation model. Opodo will be going for growth in the core package holiday market and is aiming to

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Internet Travel News - Active Hotels Boss Says Get to Know your Customer Better Travel industry entrepreneur Andy Phillipps reckons it is absolutely critical for online travel players to get to know the customer. Andy warned that travel sites that do not act on 'customer feedback' face losing customers saying: “Customers booking on the internet are transacting at an arms length, so it more

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Hotels.com launches local sites in Russia and Poland...the launches see sites go live with IP based country recognition, local-language interfaces and local currency pricing. The company said Hotels.com now operates local language sites in over 20 European countries, which include UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and

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:: Travel Weekly :: Travel industry court cases: "Push came to shove this month as two major e-commerce partners, Orbitz and Worldspan, traded $50 million civil suits in two courts here. Orbitz fired first, alleging in a suit filed on Sept. 16 that Worldspan had conned Orbitz into a “one-sided, long-term agreement” to provide a booking engine for the online service. Worldspan countersued three

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Golden Tulip Hospitality Signs Global Agreement With Expedia.Com And Hotels.Com :: Hotel News Resource: "Golden Tulip Hospitality and Expedia have entered a global agreement involving a preferred marketing partnership that provides Expedia.com and Hotels.com customers with enhanced access and connectivity to over 400 properties that comprise the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group and alliance

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Hospitality Net - Industry News - Search Engine Marketing in Hospitality | By Max Starkov and Jason Price: "Search Engine Marketing in Hospitality | By Max Starkov and Jason Price Search engine marketing is an essential component of the hotel direct online distribution strategy. According to Forrester research about 80% of overall website visits begin in a search engine or a directory service.

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TravelWeekly.co.uk - Jobs Search Details - E-Shops Travel Consultant: "Job Description PURPOSE OF ROLE Sales agents to advise and assist customers with travel plans and make bookings within lastminute.com retail outlets positioned at Airports and Railways stations nationwide MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES � Responsible for booking holidays, flights, accommodation, tours, theatres, coaches

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Billionaire Caught In Travel Web - TRAVELtech: "Cendant Corporation has sold down part of its shareholding in Webjet to investment entities associated with Melbourne billionaire Richard Pratt. Thorney Holdings Pty Ltd now holds more than 7% of the online travel outfit after picking up five million shares at 36 cents from Cendant company Southern Cross Distribution Systems. The transaction

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Asian Boss Departs As Wotif Prepares For Public Life - TRAVELtech - Covering Asia Pacific: "Hotel booker Wotif.com is undergoing a strategic review of its global operations ahead of a proposed listing on the Australian Stock Exchange next year.... “The timing is right from many points of view, he said. One reason is that internet stocks are hot again “but there are not many viable” web-based

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SiliconRepublic.com: Ireland's technology news service providing Irish tech news & analysis: "There has been much noise from IT vendors about scaling down their large enterprise systems to meet the needs of small businesses. But can they really deliver the same efficiencies to organisations of less than 100 people? Ask the question of NeedaHotel.com, a hotel reservation company that adopted SAP’s

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Lowcostbeds.com says it is ahead of its business plan for its first year's trading to sell over 30,000 holidays, with turnover exceeding 4.5m and a forward run rate of 10m per annum... The company, launched in November 2004, announced it has completed a substantial investment deal with venture capital trust management company,

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "With many complementary brands under one roof, Bruce Redor, director of key accounts, Expedia Europe feels opportunities for sharing back-end technology and accounting systems while targeting unique value propositions at its corporate and leisure travel audiences can be a significant advantage for the company... The new Expedia,

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Frank Zehle, regional vice president, Brand Marketing Continental Europe, Marriott, who joined the company earlier this year, says the new marketing team for Europe has reviewed a number of marketing strategies, especially addressing the business travellers and leisure travellers.How has Marriott Hotels integrated its offline and

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Yahoo! Travel in Europe, which has recently undergone changes, says from a product standpoint the company has completely re-launched its travel sites in both the UK and France, with Germany launching in September.. According to Tim Frankcom, European head of Travel, Yahoo!/Kelkoo, the new site combines best of breed content

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isitwickednotto: Good Afternoon all.: "Today, I will be talking about totaltravel.com Australia. 'Your travel encyclopaedia'. totaltravel.com contains information about accommodation, activities, dining and attractions for all areas of Australia. It's on online travel guide. I think the user is meant to navigate their way to information on their chosen region via clicking on the appropriate

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travmedia.com report that: "Travellers and travel professionals now have instant access to over 180 individual country health reports, travel accessories and health advice all on the one site. www.travel-essentials.co.nz" Foreign Travel Immunisations Vaccinations New Zealand Travellers Health Advice Travel Vaccination: "TRAVEL ESSENTIALS where you have immediate access to over 180 individual

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Active Hotels' recent survey findings indicated that 28% of customers chose to book with Active Hotels because they found the best rate for the hotel."

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Choice of online booking options boggles the mind of the consumer and travel agent alike... Should I go the paper-based route, go with one of the big online intermediaries, "google" my criteria and see what comes up, use the services of one of the emerging travel search and comparison engines or go directly to the Web sites of

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[getProductById - No product ID supplied]Virgin Sleeps Around, Seeks New Partners - TRAVELtech - Covering Asia Pacific: "Virgin Blue, which generates between A$6 and A$9 million in online revenue every day, has just taken another major step in its distribution diversification program, launching its Application Protocol Interface (API). Launch customers are online retailers travel.com.au and

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Record Traffic Levels For Aussie Travel Web Sites - TRAVELtech - Covering Asia Pacific: "CONSUMER traffic to Australian travel websites is at an all-time high, according to Nielsen//NetRatings and Hitwise. Not surprisingly, given the launch of Jetstar, the sharpest growth has occurred within the airline sites over the past two years.However, hotels and travel agencies are not far behind.

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Website Launched for Travel Distribution Summit: Whats new for 2006" EyeforTravel Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2006

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Following Priceline.com Inc.'s acquisition of Amsterdam-based online hotel reservation company Bookings B.V. in July this year, the online travel services provider is gearing up for strengthening of its offerings across Europe... Following the acquisition, Priceline.com portfolio comprises Activehotels.com, Activereservations.com

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Travelocity - lastminute.com - (Travel Daily News): "Travelocity and lastminute.com today announced their combined European management team and revealed plans for the integration of their British businesses . The combined organisation will be known as lastminute.com and will comprise multiple brands and businesses, including travelocity.co.uk. Both the lastminute.com and travelocity.co.uk

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SideStep Board of Directors Elects Jim Barnett Chairman: "Former President and CEO of AltaVisa to Lead Board for The Traveler's Search Engine "

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Internet Travel News - Site59 Co-Founder Joins Travelocity as COO: "Travelocity today announced that Tracey Weber has been named chief operating officer, North America. Additionally, Weber will lead the Travelocity sales and customer care team, Travelocity.ca and sister company Site59. "

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:: Travel Weekly - The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry :: "EXPEDIA INC.'S private label e-commerce unit, WWTE, is broadening its efforts and targeting non-travel Web sites. In that regard, Expedia.com and Turner Sports Interactive reached an agreement in which Expedia.com is powering the travel sections of Turner's Nascar.com and PGA.com sites on an exclusive basis. The Nascar and PGA

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DMNews.com: "Travel Sites Push Hotels Out of Searches By: Christine Blank Travel Web sites such as Expedia and Orbitz are shoving hotel companies out of both paid and organic search listings, according to a new study exclusive to DM News. Web analytics company SEMphonic found that Expedia, Orbitz and Hotels.com hold the top spots in paid search listings on Google and Yahoo while TripAdvisor.com

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Internet Travel News - National Rail Website Gets New Look: "The National Rail website has been modernised and refreshed to make it easier and faster to use. Train times and essential journey planning information will now be clearer and more quickly accessed. Significant changes to the site have been made. There is a new “Quick Journey Planner”, a feature which is repeated on most pages of the

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "The idea of setting up Dohop.com originated in late 2003 when one of the founders found the entire experience of a making a travel plan online time consuming and complicated... What are the salient and unique features of your online search offerings? From travelers' viewpoint dohop is unique in its ability to quickly identify

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Expedia, which last month commenced trading as a separate company, may have felt some pressure on its stock prices but the analysts have admitted that Expedia's valuation is 'reasonable' given the concerns including the tough competition in the US. "

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Pricerunner UK is considering an option of introducing fully operational travel category by the end of the year for hotels, holidays and car hire. The most significant feature on Pricerunner which stands out amongst shopping sites it that it lists the cheapest products first rather than running on a PPC model. Pricerunner

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Travel price comparison site travelsupermarket.com claims to have launched a first in online travel - dynamic travel comparison - the ability to simultaneously search the best price for a flight, hotel and car rental from over 120 different travel providers, as the trend to 'self package' holidays continues.. Referring to

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CWJobs - the IT job specialists - search for contract and permanent IT jobs, UK and Europe: "Webmaster Salary:18000 Location:Surrey Job type:Permanent Date posted:2 Sep 2005 14:10:24 Job description:To support the on-site merchandising and site improvement projects of lastminute.coms and holiday autos cars business in order to increase customer conversions. MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES ·

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PCWorld.com - US Airways, Expedia Resolve Dispute: "After a two-week standoff, US Airways customers can again buy their airline tickets through online travel company Expedia.com. The two companies have apparently resolved the differences that led Arlington, Virginia-based US Airways Group to pull its ticket sales from Bellevue, Washington-based Expedia.com's Web site on December 11. The dispute

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There are risks but Expedia looks like a good long-term bet - Sep. 1, 2005: "the U.S. online travel business may be maturing, Expedia still has ample opportunity in lucrative markets abroad. Gross bookings (the value of travel orders placed on the company's sites) and revenue from international segments accounted for about 20 percent of total gross bookings and sales in the first half of 2005.

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "WestCoast Hospitality Corporations division TicketsWest has launched a new website www.ticketswest.com to take advantage of new technologies that provide an exceptional user experience and deliver reliability during periods of demand... The new initiative was based on research, which indicated that ease of use, ability to zero in

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travmedia.com: "Active Hotels, one of Europes leading online hotel reservation providers owned by priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), has partnered with specialist tour operator The Travel Market Ltd., to offer ferry customers online hotel reservations across France and Benelux."

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "According to a report on www.traveldailynews.com , the findings suggested that American Express Business Travel offers the lowest business travel rates available online when compared to the public fares of three online agencies - Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity. Further the report added that for total trip rates - a combination of

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Byron Shire News: "Byron Bay travel website named number one in Australia 18.08.2005 By JANN BURMESTER Not many people in Byron Bay may have heard of totaltravel.com, but all that is about to change with the local business being named the busiest travel guide website in Australia. With more than one million hits per day, around 30,000 visitors per day and 300,000 page views per day,

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Marketing USEFUL WEBSITE From Ross Knox-Holmes Members may be interested in a website that offers individual guides the opportunity of advertising themselves for free, at least for the first year: www.totaltravel.co.uk is a well-established travel site that has comprehensive tourism guides to Australia and Great Britain. The first site was launched over three years ago and is unique in that

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Good Morning: "A weekly post of Jeff Katz's observations and views on travel, technology, and customer service. This blog is a carry forward of writings I have done for the past 10 years, most recently as the Founding CEO and Chairman of Orbitz."

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Australia Total Travel Guide: Accommodation, Tours, Restaurants & More From April - June, 2005, www.totaltravel.com was ranked #4 in the Hitwise Australia 'Travel - Destinations and Accommodation' industry based on number of visits. This ranking relates to Australian based users visiting Australian websites.

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Forrester Research: Emotive Networks Find A Role In Travel: "Travelers use numerous consumer-generated media (CGM) such as discussion boards, blogs, and user reviews to guide trip planning and purchase decisions. The result: More than 27% of US online leisure travelers and 30% of business travelers belong to Emotive Networks — interconnected groups of consumers engaged in communication and

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Expedia, Inc: "today announced financial results on a combined basis for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005. " Aqute Market Research: Expedia strategy: "Financially, Expedia has been doing fine. Not stellar search-portal performance but perfectly respectable...But in terms of strategy, Expedia, as a representative of the online travel industry, has not been "mixing it up" to the same extent

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European Travel Commission - (Travel Daily News): "The development of the new European tourism portal heralds the beginning of a new era for ETC... The European Travel Commission (ETC) is moving ever closer to a future in e-marketing with the development of a new internet portal to promote European tourism worldwide. Work on the project started in 2004. In ETC`s Annual Report for 2004,

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "To help the hoteliers and hotel marketers better understand and to create an effective Internet marketing strategy, Lodging Interactive has produced an Internet search engine marketing primer. Referring to Merrill Lynch research figures, the company says sales revenue for travel suppliers selling online will grow by 27%. As per

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "As booking services available to plan a travel itinerary get more efficient, analysts are suggesting that initiatives providing travelers with building travel-booking interfaces that rely on direct connections into reservation systems is going to accelerate, giving travelers more options in a single interface. A report on

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Hitwise In The News - HitwiseTop 5 Australian Travel Agencies websites week ending 20/8/05 ranked by visits. Rank Name Domain Market Share 1 Flight Centre www.flightcentre.com 13.30% 2 Webjet www.webjet.com.au 11.75% 3 lastminute.com Australia www.au.lastminute.com 5.62% 4 Expedia.com www.expedia.com 3.98% 5 Travel.com.au www.travel.com.au 3.53% Top 5 UK Travel Agencies websites

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Travel maps market share Google maps out a plan for commercial success in the travel sector The online mapping sector is booming with the latest data from Hitwise showing 26% year-on-year growth in the Travel - Maps online industry. An analysis of the sites visited after online maps underscores the inherent commercial value of these sites: an average of 20% of traffic from sites in the Travel -

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:: Travel Weekly - The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry ::: "Expedia Inc. forms partnership to promote World Heritage sites Expedia will promote education about the World Heritage sites by dedicating portions of its travel Web sites to posting information about them. For instance, a number of World Heritage information pages will be mounted on Expedia.com. In addition, other Expedia Inc.

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The Best of Brancatelli File @ JoeSentMe.com: Business-Travel Basics "Everything Your Always NEEDED to Know About Travel." It's all you need to know about how to deal with lost luggage; how to sue airlines and win; how to complain effectively; and how to deal with rental-car fees; tipping; packing; travel pricing and emergencies; and more. Essential Travel Tips: "Essential Travel Tips A

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eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "Just the Flight has become the first UK online travel agent to launch an innovative method of delivering daily flight deals via an RSS-XML feed"

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travmedia.com: "When it comes to travel, 50 is the new 30. More older people than ever before are spending their retirement travelling the world, inspired by the gap-year travels of their kids and grandkids, and funded by increasing equity in their houses, according to internet travel insurer Staysure.co.uk. Half of the UK’s over 50’s - that’s 10 million people - plan to travel extensively

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VisitEngland : Just Relax travmedia.com: "Just Relax is Enjoy Englands current campaign promoting ways to relax in England and is supported by a glossy handbag-sized brochure and informative website www.enjoyengland.com/relax"

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travmedia.com: "A new tourist bus service taking visitors to some of the most scenic spots in South East England - including sites made famous in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories - has been launched by the Ashdown Forest Tourism Association (AFTA) using grant aid from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The Ashdown Forest Explorer Bus Service will operate every

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Travel adventures to Asia, China, India, Africa, Egypt, South America, Central America, Latin America - Gecko's Adventures travmedia.com: "adventure travel operator, Gecko’s has revamped and redesigned its website to combine the best functionality of the web with the free-spirited fun of grass roots adventure. The site is now even more user-friendly, lucid and inspirational. The new Gecko’s

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Yahoo! Search Marketing: "To participate in Travel Submit you must: - Have a valid travel offer to publicize. You must accurately disclose all details of your offers, including accurate prices, dates, times, locations, or other information necessary to determine the contents of the offer. Additionally, your offers and deals must comply with all applicable laws and regulations."

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Taxi booking online service for London and UK with totaltravel.co.uk: "The taxi search on totaltravel is the quickest and easiest way to find a cab, wherever you are in the UK a very nifty tool P. Hindmarsh, Bristol, England " LOL

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