Amadeus has teamed up with Viator to bring their products to its CheckMyTrip mobile app first and likely extending to agency desktop booking tools. Travelport also partnered with Ingresso [...]
Low Commissions & Selling Higher Priced Cruises
Larry Norman from Travel Research Online talks about what he gained from attending a webinar put on by Norwegian Cruise Line where they discussed including the cost of unlimited drinks into the price [...]
The Qualities Shared By A Travel Business & Google
Google is a mammoth sized company with $22 Billion in yearly revenue and virtually unlimited resources. So what can your agency learn from a company that big? You'd be surprised. How about something [...]
Research Shows How & When Millennials Shop For Travel
This research comes from Yahoo Advertising which surveyed 1,500 travelers in the U.S. to get an idea of what role online travel content has in influencing decision making. The results are interesting, [...]
Marketing To The Emerging China Traveler
The Chinese travel market is growing, and expecting to double by 2020 from 100 million in 2014. They are also the biggest spenders while traveling averaging $3200 per trip. If you want to attract this [...]
Opportunity For Travel Agents To Win Back The Public
The public perception of travel agents is changing. There have been articles written in major news outlets about the value of traditional agents. The public is fed up with the OTAs and the problems of [...]
Turkey’s Tourism Is Growing And Ready For Online Travel
Turkey's government has some ambitious goals for attracting more visitors per year to their country by 2023. According to TurkStat, Turkey is up 5.6% in 2014 from the previous year. There is a wider [...]
Shazam’s Visual Recognition An Opportunity For Travel Brands
Shazam, the mobile app that listens to audio and returns information about the song, is venturing into visual recognition to do the same thing it does for music. Users would point their camera at an [...]