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The Micro-Tripper. - Monday, 25th July 2011 at 4Hoteliers Short-term, purely spontaneous travel enabled by the flash-sale, group buying, and private-travel sale start-ups, the new leisure travel market segment on the rise. In October at T4, I published, “Is the new, private-sale travel site business model the real deal? an in-depth look, into the new social e-commerce start-ups, their business model and how the deals get structured. As an active online travel business consultant in the new social e-commerce travel space (flash-travel sales), I am confirming, that yes, this new business model is the real deal and is starting to create market share. The woman in the family leads the spontaneous micro-tripper. The spontaneous micro-tripper is not an OTA buyer (the pre-planned travel market). The key difference between an OTA buyer and the Micro-Tripper buyer is the pre-planned purchase vs. the spontaneous purchase. I have relationships with over 100 directors of sales and revenue managers at many of the major hotels and resorts in North America.
Latest Travel News | TTGWeb | Travel News Ypartnership study reveals credibility gap among leisure travelers In today's evolving search for trusted sources of information about destinations and travel service suppliers, there are clear differences in credibility ascribed by the different generational groups. It's common knowledge that younger members of our society consume media differently than their older counterparts. Message credibility also varies by medium across each of the major generational clusters, however, as revealed in the Ypartnership/Harrison Group 2011 Portrait of American Travelers(SM). This is particularly true when it comes to the use of online information sources. When considering vacation destinations, input from family and friends still holds the most weight among all consumer groups, regardless of age. Interestingly, Xers (33-46 years of age) are more likely than Millennials or Boomers (47-65 years of age) to trust information on the website of an online travel agency (63 percent) such as Expedia or Travelocity. Related Link: Ypartnership
Travel Warnings & Safety Since 1985 - World Travel Watch Expert Flyer Free Account Offers Seat Alerts-But Do They Work? You probably know about ExpertFlyer from some of our past posts on using ExpertFlyer to find award availability, and may already subscribe to its premium service, which costs $99/year. Today they announced a free account, where you can set up a basic seat alert, so I decided to take it for a test drive. Since I don't already have an ExpertFlyer account, I went to the home page and clicked on "Learn More" to read more about the seat alerts. I was especially interested to read that you could set an alert for an exit row seat with a free account: I then signed up, which was pretty simple, got an email with confirmation link which I clicked on, then logged in. While I don't currently have a pressing need for a seat alert, I decided to test alerts for Continental's EWR-HNL flight, since I knew the flight number for that one having recently booked it as an award. I first tried out Economy, and maybe it's just me, but I couldn't see any options for creating a basic alert.
Setting the agenda for Australian travel agents | Travel Weekly Why games can work for travel brands: Traveler IQ, four years on A fair amount of chatter at conferences these days is around the idea of adding some form of gaming into the online travel experience, as a way of engaging further with users. The concept of gaming is typically spoken of in the same breath as monster hits such as the Facebook-based Farmville and Mafia Wars, both created by Zynga. But while both of these are relatively new products, one of the first hugely successful, social media-led and Facebook-hosted games was a travel-related effort. And now, over four years on since its launch, Traveler IQ still manages to attract hundreds of thousands of players every single month. The game was a simple product created in 2007 by Travelpod, a travel blogging platform which been acquired by Expedia the year before and was now sat within the TripAdvisor stable of brands. In short: users had to pinpoint the location of a city by planting flags on a map, getting higher scores for accuracy and speed. And that is pretty much what happened.
Projets IT : Atos déploie chez Air France KLM un service d’information des passagers en temps réel ::Mobilité Le groupe Air France KLM vient de choisir Atos Origin – également fruit d’une fusion franco-néerlandaise – pour doter ses équipes chargées de la relation client d’un service d’information voyageurs en temps réel baptisé «Air France KLM Connect». Gratuit, il permet d’informer de manière proactive et personnalisé les passagers, en temps réel, des modifications ou aléas ayant une incidence sur leur voyage. Atos a mis en oeuvre la plateforme relationnelle automatisée en partenariat avec l'éditeur Unica, spécialiste des solutions logicielles marketing. Plus d'actualités et de tutoriels
Arborglyph – Radical Communication | Analytics of online travel experience videos by Mike Henderson | 14th October 2011 | Blog | Social Media | Video When we talk about marketing travel experiences it’s nice to have a little data to back things up. Luckily, I have a friend who runs an online video analytics company . They took a random sample of 5 million travel related videos posted to YouTube in the last 12 months. Then sifted out the best quality, most viewed, most liked and most commented of those travel videos. Extracted the top 100 and analyzed them. Travel videos are well liked. The best travel videos come from 4 types of creators. You can map these videos to two types of behavior. 1) Users are watching the destination and guide videos to . 2) People posting the user generated and travel tips videos are . The way I see it, people researching a trip need the value of the trip proved in advance, not just the value of that specific trip, but any trip. Who is watching the best travel videos? 23%: search [YouTube is 2nd largest search engine] @ChannelMeter
What else? Flybe, TrustYou, NineMSN and LocalGuiding What else is going on in the world of travel tech? A round-up of other stories from across the industry. Flybe is on track to help provide more accurate weather forecasting for Europe following a partnership with US-based weather forecaster AirDat. How do hotels make better of use of the reviews they get from guests? Australian consumer portal NineMSN is heading down the travel search route, inking a deal with metasearch engine Wego to white label the platform into its travel channel. More moves in the peer-to-peer destination service sector with LocalGuiding introducing Tour Request. Exclusive: Travelzoo mulls sale, seeks adviser: sources - chicagotribune.com April 10, 2012|Nadia Damouni | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Travelzoo Inc The New York-based Internet company, which provides travel deals on flights, hotels, vacation packages and cruises, is in the process of hiring a financial adviser, the sources said. The company has a market value of $336.1 million. Travelzoo's move comes after it received takeover interest from private equity firms and trade buyers, the sources said. The list of potential buyers could include Amazon The sources said online travel website ODIGEO, which is owned by AXA Private Equity and Permira, could also be a likely buyer. Travelzoo, Amazon and Google declined to comment. The shares of Travelzoo, which competes with Expedia Inc In July 2011, Travelzoo saw its shares plunge more than 30 percent after it missed analysts estimates, hurt by higher costs and lower-than-expected growth at its European newsletter business. The company's revenues are generated primarily from advertising fees.