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Thetrainline.com Profits Soar Offsetting Debt

Aleksandr Shatskih

A story on Travolution shows online rail bookings having increased at thetrainline.com boosting sales to more than £1 billion. Thetrainline.com revenue only offsets debt though.

14 years ago

Top 7 Travel Apps for iPhone

Guest Author

Planning a vacation or a trip is very easy with Apple iPhone. Its worldly travel apps facilitate you to book tickets; view the location, etc for making your travel memorable.

14 years ago

Magnuson’s GHX Adopted by 1000’s Already

Aleksandr Shatskih

In news from PRWeb London, via Digital Journal, Thomas Magnuson’s Global Hotel Exchange (GHX) announced today thousands of hotels adopting the not even released new online travel agency (OTA).

14 years ago

OTA CEOs: Part III

Phil Butler

Continuing our series on decision makers in the online travel world, Argo jumps back in to an interesting Q & A session between reporters from USA Today and leading CEOs. Veronica Gould Stoddart and Roger Yu caught up with 6 top bosses at the recent PhoCusWright conference in Hollywood, Fla. We take up where we left off, analyzing answers to some key tech trend questions.

14 years ago

OTA CEOs: Part II

Phil Butler

Yesterday we began a series on online travel agency CEOs, and a recent interview conducted by USA TODAY’s Veronica Gould Stoddart and Roger Yu. We analyzed a bit, some key decision makers’ mindset on the question of whether consumers want (will get) richer content from these industry giants during their travel searches. Expedia, Orbitz, TripAdvisor, parent Expedia, Travelocity, and Priceline bosses all had their views there.

14 years ago

OTA CEOs and Who Has Your Back: Part I

Phil Butler

What do you want from information providers? How about service providers that offer information you need to know to make decisions? Where online travel is concerned, there has been a lot of shakeup of late over these questions. Can you trust reviews? Which OTAs can you trust? We decided to micro-analyze some questions and answers already provided by none other than USA Today, and the leading bosses of your online travel agencies.

14 years ago

Stay Where You Surf! Surfbreakrentals.com

Phil Butler

Surf’s Up. News from Northern California tells of surfers there launching a beach vacation rental site, Surfbreakrentals.com, by the company of the same name. The new travel website, with obvious intentions, offers some of the world’s best breaks and beaches at deals to users. In further news from the surfer dudes launching the site, world […]

14 years ago

Travelport Chief Envisions Better Cooperation With Airlines

Aleksandr Shatskih

Amidst all the kerfuffle regarding the failed attempt by American Airlines to change the way that global distribution systems operate, one of the key players in the squabble, Travelport CEO Gordon Wilson, has predicted a much more harmonious relationship between airlines and GDS companies in the future.

14 years ago

Twigmore Puts People First in Travel

Phil Butler

A new startup called Twigmore is aimed directly at putting people and their real impressions of “places” in the correct order. Unlike many “geocentric” travel tools, this new entry tries to arrange for local review wisdom for your trip planning. At least this seems like the gist.

14 years ago

NORTHWIND: Congrats to Maestro Software Clients

Aleksandr Shatskih

NORTHWIND, the leading provider of hotel management and reservation software solutions is delighted to offer its congratulations to a number of its valued clients, which have landed numerous top awards from top level travel organizations, including TripAdvisor Choice, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure Magazine, Forbes Travel Guide and AAA. NORTHWIND’s clients have built their […]

14 years ago

SITEX 2011 Expo Singapore Set To Be Biggest Ever

Aleksandr Shatskih

The SITEX 2011 Electronics and Computer Fair is back once again, and this year’s show promises to be the biggest and best yet with more than 900,000 visitors expected to attend the exhibition at the Singapor Expo Hall.

14 years ago

OTAs and the Offer Hotels Can’t Refuse

Aleksandr Shatskih

An article by Hotel News Now Editorial Director Jeff Higley last Thursday may just be the bugle call for a coming battle between OTAs and their benefactors, hoteliers. Higley’s report from the 23rd Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference shined a bright light on growing friction between third party distribution agents, and the service providers they are supposed to help.

14 years ago

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