[Infographic] How leisure travellers book online
How many people book flights via OTA compared to hotels? How many business travellers incorporate leisure into their trips? Do travellers actually care about loyal programmes?
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[Infographic] How airline distribution works
Ticket distribution and airline management are complex. The interaction between a user and a traditional airline may entail involvement of about four middlemen companies. However, there are…
Filipino startup bares tech updates, celebrates gains
Tripkada, the Philippine curated trip-joining start-up platform, launched its joiner app for iOS, gave stakeholder updates and revealed its expansion plans.
Joining offbeat trips is serious business: Q&A with Tripkada CEO April Cuenca
I recently sat down with Tripkada's April Cuenca to learn more about how both she and the startup she built are disrupting the Philippine travel industry.
NYC start-up keeps customer care real on chat, social and mobile
Bad travel and hospitality services. Scripted customer care messages. Slow assistance. Mix them all together with social media, and you have a potential customer service hot spot for travel…
Packdat start-up! Disrupting the travel market with Felix Lee
Felix Lee Zheng De looks like any other Singaporean engineering student: lanky, bespectacled, wearing jeans and trainers, raring to go anywhere. What sets this twenty-something apart is…
Buddy up on budget adventures with Tripkada
Friendly, generous, caring, adventurous. These make us Filipinos the best chums or ‘barkada’ in virtually everything, particularly when travelling. Now, a local start-up weaponises these…
The new Indian wayfarer: young, digital, globetrotting
India remains a favourite of global travellers for its natural beauty and impressive architecture. So how do we explain the recent trend of Indian vacationers going to faraway continents…
Plan your group adventure with Packdat
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Tourism to boost Sharjah’s economy
Travel and tourism, transport and logistics, healthcare and environment are four key sectors which have been identified to furl economic growth for Sharjah.
This was revealed by a recent…
Teletext looks to affinity for growth
Teletext Holidays is to use new affinity partnerships in its next phase of growth, it has announced.
The company has created a new role of partnerships manager in a bid to boost its…
Passenger increase for Jet Airways
Jet Airways has seen a 16% increase in passengers in its latest full-year results.
The Indian-based carrier saw its profits up £135 million with its load factors at 83% for the last…
Mark Warner moves forward with new resort
Mark Warner Holidays marked a ‘new future’ in its business this week as it showed its new Rhodes resort to press and travel agents.
The independent company, which has been operating for 38…
Couples love their holidays, but 59% argue
Brits are increasingly travelling to celebrate their love although three quarters of couples argue while abroad, new reports have shown.
In a poll of 1,000 British adults, Beachcomber…
Middle East growth for Millennium & Copthorne
Millennium & Copthorne has recently announced it will open six new Copthorne hotels, in the Middle East over the next year.
More than 1,000 guest rooms will be added in the coming 12…
Agents guide to selling Antarctica yacht cruises
Welcome to the Compagnie du Ponant 2012/2013 agents guide to selling Antarctica yacht cruises.
UK winter trading up at TUI
TUI Travel has improved its UK winter trading compared to last year, its latest figures have revealed.
In its first quarter results (ending 31 December 2011) the company’s summer 2012…
ASA brands TripAdvisor claims ‘misleading’
TripAdvisor has been told it cannot claim all of its reviews are written by real travellers, following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
ASA concluded that…
Bookings to Paris on the up
Travel companies have seen a rise in trips to Paris booked up in recent sales figures.
Tour operator Superbreak has seen the French capital rise four places to fourth in its top-selling…
Qatar Airways opens Heathrow lounge
Qatar Airways is to open its new premium lounge at Heathrow tomorrow.
The Terminal 4 lounge will be the airline’s first outside of Doha and will be available to first and business…
Amadeus joins Low Season Tourism initiative
Travel technology company Amadeus has joined the European Commisson’s (EC) Low Season Tourism initiative to generate more travel from Europe across the world.
The company has signed a…
