Listing Details| ID: | 2739 |
| Title: | Eye For Travel - http://www.eyefortravel.com/ |
| Description: | Travel industry news covering Online Travel Marketing, web 2.0, social media, revenue management, distribution, travel technology. News, conferences, research, seminars and exhibitions |
| Category: | News and Media: Travel |
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| Added: | March 24, 2008 01:34:15 PM |
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| Latest feed from Eye For Travel China will struggle without a post Olympic strategy It’s the million dollar question, and previous host nation experiences would suggest that the forces of history are working against them. Much has been publicised recently about Ctrip’s meteoric revenue growth of 30 percent to $55M, compared with the same quarter a year ago. The trend that online air ticket purchases have begun - with a 44 percent revenue increase -, hotel bookings have been quick to follow recording 14 percent growth across the same period. read more Booking.com offers smaller hotels direct online tool to drive bookings As per the new Booking Button, hotels of all sizes can offer direct bookings through their own websites. Neither a set-up fee nor an annual fee is charged for this service by the company. Hotels pay Booking.com a low, per-booking commission of three percent for bookings made through the Booking Button. Once the hotels have inserted the Booking Button onto their websites, it connects consumers directly (and seamlessly) to Booking.com's fully configured reservation system. The button requires no additional software or hardware investment by hotels. read more Business travellers lift profits at Virgin Atlantic The company reported a pretax profit for the 2007-2008 financial year of 60.9 million pounds ($112.2 million), up from 44 million pounds a year earlier. The result for the year ended February 29 excluded a 32 million pound ($59 million) charge relating to the settlement of a class action lawsuit over the price-fixing of fuel surcharges. Virgin and rival airline British Airways PLC admitted to colluding over fuel surcharges on long-haul flights between August 2004 and January 2006. read more |