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Club Med: Asia Moves May Prove Prudent

2013-05-28 by Phil Butler

Club Med campaign

News yesterday detailed an apparent buyout bid by French insurance company AXA, and the Chinese conglomerate Fosun International to control resort chain Club Med. According to reports the major shareholders offered something on the order of $719 million have been confirmed and supported by the Club Med management team.

Tags: Asia travel, Club Med, Fosun International, Henri Giscard d'Estaing, luxury travel, online bookings, resorts, travel companies, vacation resorts

Travelport Adds NTV Italian High Speed Rail

2012-02-22 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Some good news from Travelport, clients will now be able to book rail travel on the much talked about Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), the first Italian private high-speed railway. The strategic partnership tells of NTV distribution via Galileo-connected travel agencies in Italy and around the world.

Tags: GDS, high speed rail, Italy railroads, Italy tourism, Italy travel, Milan travel, online bookings, online rail, OTA's, Rail, rail bookings, rail travel

Travel Agents and the Status Quo of Extinction

2011-08-31 by Phil Butler

Tui and other travel agencies had better wake up

President Obama’s projection about travel agents, and the potential for them becoming obscolete brought on a firestorm of criticism from who else? The ASTA of course. The American Society of Travel Agents took great offense and injury at comments that. Comments that. Were effectively accurate, that’s what.

Tags: Anton Bogdanovych, Argophilia Albania, Argophilia Travel, ASTA, Barack Obama, Expedia, Google Travel, hotel finder, Information Technology University of Technology Sydney, online bookings, Orbitz, OTA, Second Life, the travel economy, tourism, travel agents

Online Travel Warfare To End Soon

2011-02-19 by Phil Butler

Google evil versus collective evil

The war in online travel over basically who gets what & when continues this week with Delta Airlines snatching seats from Rick Seaney’s FareCompare, American Airlines going hog wild trying to engage on their own, and Google outlining (see Matt Cutts video below) how they can manually crucify websites for SPAM. Meanwhile travelers just want some price break justice.

Tags: air fares, American Airlines, BIng, Expedia, FaceCompare, Google, Google algorithms, ITA, Kayak, Matt Cutts, Microsoft, MS Travel, online bookings, Orbitz, Rick Seaney, social web, SPAM, Tim O'Reilly, TripAdvisor, Web 2.0, web transparency

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