29/01/2009 15:16
VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, in association with Tourism Together launches a new online tool for both tourism professionals and students. The updated version of the Destination Managers’ Toolkit (DMT) gathers guidelines from key industry experts and examples of best practice in the...
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19/01/2009 10:35
Today, resorts are seeing the value of engaging prospective or recurrent guests online through social networks, blogs and review and photo sharing sites.
More than 35 resorts participate in HSMAI’s Resort Marketing Special Interest Group “Best Practices Initiative”; the most recent study...
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19/01/2009 10:26
A survey has found travel firms are good at analysing the existing external environment but lag behind other businesses when predicting their position in the future.
The study by Barclays Commercial to understand the minds behind a cross-section of businesses in the UK produced a mixed bag...
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14/01/2009 12:30
Over a third of holidaymakers prefer to book a package with one tour operator or agent, according to a massive survey of just over 12,600 people.
The poll, carried out during the voting period for The British Travel Awards 2008, found 26.5% of respondents choose to book a package because it is an...
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14/01/2009 12:20
Barack Obama changed the political rule book: his 2008 presidential campaign leveraged the Internet's strength to engage disenchanted voters and register new voters. Future political campaigns won't be able to utilize these strategies with the same impact since they won't be as novel and the...
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13/01/2009 16:16
At the close of 2008, online leisure/unmanaged business travel bookings represented 29% of the €246 billion European travel industry, the world’s largest regional travel market.
Online travel bookings will grow significantly faster than total gross bookings, which are projected to increase...
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13/01/2009 16:03
At the close of 2008, online leisure/unmanaged business travel bookings are projected to represent 29 percent of the €246 billion European travel industry, the world’s largest regional travel market.
According to PhoCusWright’s European Online Travel Overview Fourth Edition, online travel...
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02/01/2009 10:00
Suppliers seem to have won the battle for online leisure and unmanaged business travel market share in the US, according to December 2008 PhoCusWright data.
Fully 61% of online travel sales are now made directly at supplier sites, compared with 39% for online travel agencies (OTAs) in 2008....
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19/12/2008 16:36
According to more than 1,000 users of Kayak.com, the world’s largest travel search site, despite the economy, consumers are insisting on delivering their holiday gifts personally to loved ones this year.
More than 75 percent of survey respondents still plan to travel during this holiday...
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05/12/2008 22:18
More than 300,000 Thomas Cook customers who have travelled in the past 12 months have added their holiday and hotel ratings to thomascook.com.
This recently added function is just one of many made possible by the new eCommerce platform upon which the site now operates.
The search capabilities...
Visitor's arrivals from Japan and the United States are starting to make a comeback. Tourism Fiji chief executive Jo Tuamoto said figures had improved over the past three months.
