According to Hitwise’s latest travel report, 36.97% of all visits to the online ‘Travel’ industry went to the top 10 websites for the month of July, 2008. 46.04% went to the top 20 websites and 67.08% went to the top 100 websites.
The average visit duration for visits to the online ‘Travel’ industry was 9 minutes, [...]

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Ryanair Aug. 11 began implementing a policy under which thousands of customers could end up at the airport expecting to take flights for which their tickets are no longer valid.
Under a new policy announced last week, as of Aug. 11 Ryanair is rejecting the tickets of thousands of customers who bought them from screen-scraper fare-comparison [...]

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The UEFA EURO 2008 football championships caused a massive surge in profit for Vienna’s chain hotels, according to the latest European HotStats survey from TRI Hospitality Consulting.
Income before fixed charges (IBFC) – also known as gross operating profit – increased by 80.5 per cent to a daily figure of €128.82 per available room. Increased profit [...]

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Web 2.0 is no longer considered an ‘innovation’. It’s a standard. The internet is now a place for sharing and social interaction. The smartest businesses in the world are using this social interaction to their benefit – through blogs, streaming video, and online communities, where people come together to trade links, ideas, and information 24 [...]

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It is imperative that we focus on new strategies based upon changing habits in the consumer’s travel buying behavior. The question is how will the implementation of these strategies be measured in order to evaluate their effectiveness?
The hotel industry in general has not been as systematic as many industries in goal setting and measuring the [...]

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