I have been in online travel (and offline, before that) long enough to experience a number of distinct eras. The first travel startup that I founded, in 2000, was billed as the first brochure-less tour operator in the UK. Seriously – at that time, not having brochures as a tour…
Reports that the laptop ban on select flights to the US may soon be extended has raised further concerns in the aviation industry. But Joe Leader, CEO of the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX), has proposed an alternative: green lighting passengers to travel with their electronics in the cabin….
Marketing success today in the hotel sector can be measured using many diverse metrics. That’s what makes it so fun, right? Analytics programs let you measure everything from who and where your website visitors come from to what content they are interested in. NB: This is a viewpoint from…
More than one in five travellers from China are confident enough to plan every aspect of their trip themselves, according to a new Sabre report. The Evolving Chinese Traveller study covers familiar ground in explaining why Chinese travel is growing (higher disposable incomes, better tech and accessibility to information)…
This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel people and businesses in May 2017. Wednesday 10 May 2017: ReviewPro steps up US presence Reputation management platform ReviewPro has named John Owens as vice president of sales for North America, based in its new Dallas office. He…
London-listed beach holidays specialist OnTheBeach has bought the “highly complementary” Sunshine.co.uk for £12 million. The deal will add some 200,000 Sunshine.co.uk customers to On the Beach’s 1.2 million, which On The Beach says will give it additional scale when negotiating exclusively contracted product. Sunshine has gross assets of £18.6…
TripAdvisor has timed its confirmation of a relaunch and redesign with its first quarter earnings and is planning to spend $70-$80 million this year on the first phase of a TV brand campaign. In his prepared remarks, CEO Steve Kaufer said: “In a few weeks, we are excited to…
The Priceline Group has seen gross bookings across the group for the first quarter of 2017 hit a record $20.7 billion. The increase of 24% year-on-year is more than $400 million compared to the same period in 2016 and just under $300 million higher than the record quarter the group…
Either the marketing continues to wow younger travellers or it is correct that Airbnb is the cheaper provider of somewhere to stay when compared to hotels. That’s an outcome to consider by hotel marketers following the release of a report by Lendedu, a US-based finance provider to millennials. The company…
Ryanair has opted for Madrid as the location for its third Travel Lab, and is planning to employ 250 developers. The first Ryanair Travel Lab opened in Dublin in July 2014, followed by a site in Wroclaw, Poland, at the start of 2016. Its Travel Lab initiative was part…