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Perseuss Introduces Its “LITE” Validation Services for Smaller Agencies

2019-11-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Perseuss LITE

Perseuss Introduces Its “LITE” Validation Services to help small to medium sized travel agencies mitigate fraud.

Tags: fraud detection, intelligence, Maarten Alleman, merchant protection, Perseuss, Perseuss LITE, security, theft protection, tourism security, travel agencies, travel agency, traveler security, traveler validation

Turkey Will Host 38 Million Tourists in 2017

2017-04-06 by Argophilia Travel News

Istanbul, Turkey

According to news from the Association of Travel Agencies (TURSAB), Turkey expects to greet more than 38 million tourists this year. The Chairman of the association, Basaran Ulusoy, also assured reporters of Turkey’s readiness for the summer season to begin.

Tags: Basaran Ulusoy, directions, events, flights, forecasts, hotels, market, projects, routes, services, summer 2016, summer 2017, tour operators, tourist industry, tourists, tours, travel, travel agency, trends

MITT 2017 Hits Expocentre Moscow

2017-03-16 by Argophilia Travel News

MITT 2017

At “Expocentre” this week the 24th International Tourism Exhibition MITT 2017 has been one of the year’s early sensations. Set to be exclusively B2B this time around, the event saw a significant increase in visitors this year.

Tags: events, International Tourism Exhibition MITT 2017, market, MITT, Russia events, Russia tourism, services, technology, tour operators, tourist industry, travel agency, trends

Thomas Cook Launches “Biggest Ever” Facebook Competition

2012-03-09 by Mike Wheatley

Thomas Cook Facebook Campaign

Thomas Cook has just launched its largest multimedia campaign yet, as it spearheads calls for the UK government to support the tourist industry in all sectors – including both domestic and international tourism.

Tags: ad campaign, Facebook, Facebook campaign, Facebook travel, travel agency, Travel Agent

Buoyant Travel Counsellors Announce Expansion

2011-12-28 by Mike Wheatley

Travel Counselors landing page.

Buoyant Travel Counsellors has revealed it is set to expand its operations into two new countries next year, after recording annualized sales totaling £400 million.
Manchester Evening News reported that the firm, which has more than 1,200 home-based agents on its staff, confirmed its plans to expand shortly after posting £346 million in sales revenues for the year ending October 31st.

Tags: Buoyant Travel Counsellors, business and leisure travel, cruise bookings, sales revenues, Steve Byrne, travel agency, Travel Counsellors

Debt Problems Mount for Thomas Cook

2011-12-19 by Mike Wheatley

Thomas Cook debt

For the British tour operator Thomas Cook, things seem to be going from bad to worse as it struggles to reduce its reported £1 billion debt. On the back of an announcement that it’s planning to close one sixth of its 1,300 travel agents in the UK, the company has now reported pre-tax losses of £398 million after it was hit by a number of damaging writedowns totaling over half a billion UK pounds.

Tags: debt reduction, Debts, Manny Fontenla-Novoa, Paul Hollingworth, pre-tax losses, thomas cook, travel agency, TSSA, writedowns

Thomas Cook Buys Time With Spain Divestiture

2011-12-14 by Delia Gavrilescu

Thomas Cook

Beleaguered Thomas Cook has unloaded gold and hotel business in Spain to help slash debt which has crippled their business of late. The 170 year old company will be selling their stake in Hoteles Y Clubs De Vacaciones for a reported £72 million. The news comes in advance of delayed Thomas Cook annual results which will almost certainly spur massive store closings and job losses.

Tags: debt, Hoteles Y Clubs De Vacaciones, Iberostar, Sam Weihagen, Spain hotels, Spain travel, Spain vacations, TC, thomas cook, travel agencies, travel agency, travel companies

GetThere.com Adds HTML5 Mobile Shop and Book Features

2011-04-13 by Tavis J. Hampton

GetThere Mobile

GetThere announced yesterday that it has added some new features to its GetThere Mobile service.  The new web interface is built using HTML5, giving mobile users an app-like experience without actually having to download an app. With GetThere Mobile, mobile travel users can do the following: access flight information, including departure and arrival times call […]

Tags: booking, flight, GetThere, GetThere Mobil, hotels, HTML5, mobile app, reservations, smartphones, travel agency, web app

Expedia Says Hotel App for iPhone Coming

2011-03-24 by Tavis J. Hampton

iPhone

Expedia’s recent acquisition of mobile app developer Mobiata has paid off, and the web-based travel company says it has created an Expedia Hotels app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Within four taps of a finger, Expedia says, a traveler can go from researching hotels to booking a room. The app will also make use […]

Tags: Expedia, GPS, hotels, iPhone app, iPod Touch, Mobiata, smartphones, travel agency, TripAdvisor

Opodo Deal Worth Over Half a Billion

2011-02-10 by Phil Butler

Opodo Austria landing page

Just about every news outlet in Europe is all a buzz about private equity firm Axa, and Permira headed for a deal to buy Amadeus’ Opodo. The OTA started in Germany in 2001, if the deal goes through as suggested, will be worth between $500 and $700 million. An unnamed source at Amadeus IT Holding SA told Reuters the sketch details of the negotiations.

Tags: Amadeus, Argophilia Travel, Axa, eDreams, Europe OTA's, European travel, GoVoyages, online travel, Opodo, OTA's, Permira, travel agency, travel companies, travel technology

TUI Travel Value Tumbles

2010-10-21 by Phil Butler

TUI Travel Board of Directors

TUI Travel accepts CFO resignation amid almost scandalous restating of financials. CEO Peter Long and CFO Paul Bowtell talk, after which Bowtell announces his resignation. A restated financial report reveals a fairly vast accounting error – stocks decline on the news.

Tags: Bowtell, CEO, CFO, Europe travel, Financial, First Choice Holidays, Peter Long, stocks, Thomas Cook Group Plc, travel agency, travel agents, travel stocks, TUI Travel




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