10 Apr 2007
| by Janet Davies, account director, Travel
As the shift to self-organised, no frills travel allows us to enjoy more overseas trips, the demand...-trip/annual insurance terms are less seasonally dependent
than short-term travel insurance, but can also generate ...
the end of the
summer travel season. Internet searches for "travel insurance" are already ramping up as
consumers start planning their summer breaks. Searches for travel insurance will peak in the summer ...
23 Jun 2004
| by Louise Longman, news editor at Travel Weekly
Selling holidays used to be pretty straightforward for the big four travel companies, if a little ...
years ago. In the past year, 329 UK travel agencies closed down, while 241 opened - a net loss of 88.
While booking through a travel agent remains the most popular means of buying a holiday abroad - a ...
Royal Mail research has revealed that holiday companies lose out on
business opportunities through lack of communication. Sixty per cent of
holiday-makers questioned said they are never contacted by their travel
company post-holiday.
...
Tourism PROs generally only have to deal with travel writers. But that changes as soon as a coach ...
of September's Hurricane Ivan, BGB Communications took The Sunday Times and Travel Trade Gazette to Jamaica ...
are to some countries.
Travel disasters come in a variety of grisly forms. Tour operator Inghams says ...
06 Aug 1998
| by SHAUN CASEY, a director of travel opera
Conference and incentive travel is an exciting industry and
growing, but despite it being worth...Conference and incentive travel is an exciting industry and
growing, but despite it being worth ...
universities.
When The Travel Organisation (TTO) approached universities to offer
career guidance, less than 50% responded.
Conference and incentive travel is a service industry, and it needs ...
TUI Travel, the International leisure group, has signed a deal with the Australian travel operator...The combined businesses will run under the umbrella company named Peak. TUI Travel and Intrepid Travel will keep their own branding while Peak will offer a platform for a multi-brand strategy ...
for the next three years.
Peter Long, chief executive of TUI Travel Plc, said: "Specialist travel ...
Incentive travel can be prone to its fair share of problems. Ben Lerwill finds out what can go...On a good day, with champagne and tropical sunsets, incentive travel is
the ultimate reward. But when things go wrong, it's riddled with more
potential pitfalls than a piranha-infested jacuzzi. P ...
CONFERENCE AND INCENTIVE
TRAVEL There are certain factors guaranteed to set nerves jangling whenever ...
P&I presented six leading travel suppliers with a hypothetical brief for a promotional offer to tie...For marketers, travel incentives throw up the trickiest of challenges:
on one hand, consumer ...
holiday. With this in mind, P&I mystery shopped six travel suppliers with the
help of agency ...
service as well as
specific concerns about offering travel premiums (see brief,
opposite). Landround I ...
With travel, hotel and holiday information now the fastest-growing sector for e-commerce in the UK...It s holiday planning time again. But suddenly there are dozens of new ways to do it. Travel web ...
holidays, such as travel agency Lunn Poly and tour operator First Choice, are just starting to embrace ...
(www.easyjet.com) plans to launch its online transaction service this year. Travel is becoming a boom ...