A new report, to be released Tuesday by Forrester Research, found that far from embracing the do-it-yourself era, many consumers were fed up with the complicated process of planning and booking travel.
“What we’ve seen is growing frustration,” said Henry H. Harteveldt, a Forrester travel analyst. “Consumers see other Web sites becoming easier to use – [...]

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Though Twitter is currently a media darling, only 8% of advertisers and consumers think it is a “very effective” promotion tool, according to June 2009 data from LinkedIn Research Network and Harris Interactive.
The research, which included surveys of US advertisers and Internet users, found that while 83% of advertisers were familiar with Twitter, only 31% [...]

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A report in the UK has highlighted that the package holiday is making a “remarkable comeback”.
According to a report filed by The Telegraph, a rush for late deals because of the poor weather, coupled with the financial security offered by holiday firms should things go wrong, has seen the popularity of the package flourish once [...]

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Are your landing pages feeling tired? Is your conversion rate stagnant? Not quite sure what to try next? To re-energize your post-click marketing, it can help to step back and evaluate your approach from several different perspectives.
Here’s a quick exercise, the Landing Page Wonder Wheel- as in, “I wonder how to improve my landing pages?”- [...]

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The Irish Hotels Federation has said the sector is in crisis as it struggles to cope with a 20% overcapacity of 12,000 rooms.
Mr Power says expansion in recent years was unsustainable and 61,000 beds are now available in hotels around the county, compared with 40,000 in 2002.
The number of hotels in the country has doubled [...]

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