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Thetrainline.com Profits Soar Offsetting Debt

2011-12-13 by Aleksandr Shatskih

thetrainline.com profits soar

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.

Tags: Alexa ranks, debt, Key Travel, Key Travel UK, rail fares, rail pass, rail sites, rail tickets, rail trips, thetrainline.com, This Is Money, tickets, Trainline Investments Holidays, trains, Travolution, UK rail

Orbitz Future Hinges on Travelport Debt

2011-09-23 by Phil Butler

Travelport, will it make 41?

In news from Chicago, the state court of appeals there upheld an earlier decision forcing American Airlines (AMR) to allow Orbitz to sell tickets for its flights. Orbritz, the US’s second largest online ticket seller, has for months been embroiled in dispute with AMR.

Tags: airlines, American Airlines, AMR case, AMR stock, ExpenseAnywhere, Orbitz, Orbitz for Business, Orbitz stock, OTA, stocks, tickets, travel, Travelport

GetYourGuide: Swiss Movement for Tours

2011-07-08 by Phil Butler

GetYourGuide offices Berlin

Travel and tourism in the digital world is branching out in “pioneer” fashion more and more these days. One startup we took a look at today, GetYourGuide, illustrates vividly what is possible with the right people behind an endeavor. GetYourGuide, founded in 2008, is a development that has been hard at work becoming the digital world’s tour and specialty activity “go to” platform.

Tags: activity booking, city tours, City-Discovery, CrunchBase, Expedia, GetYourGuide, isango!, Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, online marketing, OTA's, Pascal Mathis, Sabre, Tao Tao, tickets, Tobias Rein, tour bookings, tourism, travel tools, TripAdvisor, Viator

Will Google Launch Their ITA Travel Weapon?

2011-07-06 by Phil Butler

Google can torpedo travel

According to TechCrunch’s reliable network of source, Google may well roll out an integrated ITA search platform within days. A report by TC’s Leena Rao 16 hours ago suggests Google’s recent acquisition may in fact be the forboding nightmare Microsoft, Expedia, and others feared.

Tags: Expedia, Fairlogix, fare booking, Google, Google Travel, ITA, ITA fare software, Kayak, Microsoft, online travel, Sabre, TechCrunch, ticket sales, tickets, travel wars

Skyscanner Sets Sights on Asia Market

2011-06-27 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Skyscanner travel booking

Travel search innovators Skyscanner, one of the world’s most useful travel search tools, has announced a year to year revenue increase of 75 percent. Also in their news, the company’s growth trajectory has also paved the way for expansion in Asia via operations in Singapore. With emerging markets being underutilized, can companies like Skyscanner gain a foothold?

Tags: airline bookings, Asia bookings, Asia travel, Barry Smith, Bonamy Grimes, Bookings, flights, Gareth Williams, hotels, online travel tools, Singapore travel, tickets, travel tools, UK travel Europe travel, Zoombu




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