PROS Airline Group Revenue Management Keep Your Business Soaring With Big Data Whether they’re quoting deals of 15 or 50 passengers, outperformers know how to use their data to their advantage in sales. They turn to PROS. We invented the first pricing, deal management, and revenue optimization system to help airlines handle group passenger requests and bookings. [Social Travel] Wipolo, la plateforme française choisie par Facebook Un site – un seul en Europe – a été choisi parmi trois autres partenaires voyage par Facebook sur sa nouvelle plateforme : Wipolo. Le site, disponible sur le web ou sur mobile, connecte les e-voyageurs, et permet de partager ses expériences de voyages entre amis, de retrouver les infos de ses voyages passés et futurs, de les partager en temps réel, et recommander les bons plans: hôtels, avions etc… Le procédé, qui, on le devine, a séduit Facebook, est astucieux: Wipolo propose un lien sur les autres sites voyage, et rassemble l’ensemble des infos que le voyageur a renseigné. Wipolo concentre alors une grosse capacité de datas, intégrables dans la timeline Facebook. Le business modèle est calé à 75% sur l’affiliation avec les partenaires. Lancé en 2008, Wipolo a récemment signé plusieurs accords avec des acteurs du voyage, comme Go Voyages, Good Planet et Mondial Assistance. Entretien avec Matthieu Heslouin, co-fondateur de Wipolo.
Facebook failing to drive booking conversions REPORT FROM THE U.S.—Back in March 2011, Michael Hraba, like many hoteliers, was excited by the commercial potential of Facebook. There was revenue to be had, and hoteliers and brand companies were rushing to put booking widgets on their profile pages to encourage easy, seamless transactions. My, what a difference a year can make. Hraba, who is project manager and communications for Waterford Hotels & Inns and owner of San Francisco-based Hraba Hospitality Consulting, has jumped off the Facebook bandwagon, citing low transactional booking volume for his clients and the broader industry alike. “Until they somehow monetize their users into consumers, when somebody enters Facebook under the premise that I might buy something, I don’t think Facebook will ever be a relevant revenue-generating tool,” he said. Hraba is not alone in his sentiment. “Generally when companies are reticent about disclosing conversion rates, it’s because it’s going to be pretty negligible.
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Cheap Airfare, Low Cost Airline Tickets & Cheap Flights - CheapAir.com Group University Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital Magazine Since launching early last year, young social travel site Gogobot has been off to a pretty good start, or at least it has, shall we say, been hitting all the stops. As Jason pointed out recently, it was named one of Time’s top sites for 2011, won a Crunchie for best design in 2010, and brought its total funding to just under $20 million with a series B raise from Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures and CrunchFund. It launched a good looking iOS app in October, and has seen its user base grow 10x in the last six months. But, so what, right? As we’ve written before, the travel space is rife with newcomers. And TripAdvisor, the leader in the space and the veteran incumbent is on its way towards an IPO, but there are still a few things it doesn’t do as well as some of the younger travel sites. The integration will take a realtime stream of travel photos and experiences from around the globe, generated using Gogobot’s iOS app, and transform them into a travel magazine.
How Jetsetter's CEO Keeps the Travel Conversation Flowing With Social Media Drew Patterson is the CEO of Jetsetter, a two-year-old travel startup and member of the Gilt Groupe luxury flash deal family. The site offers 20 to 40 sales each week on "Jetsetter-verified" hotels, villas and adventures all around the world to its two million members. Patterson founded Jetsetter after a stint at Starwood Hotels and serving as VP of marketing at travel deals site Kayak. His experience in the travel industry has helped the company create a seamless user experience. Jetsetter's members have booked more than 500,000 room nights at 1,000 travel partners in 90 countries. The site has accrued 127,000 Likes on Facebook and 26,000 Twitter followers and works off of a referral basis — recommend friends to the website and get $25 when they book their first vacation. Mashable spoke with Patterson about how he uses social media as a CEO and how his company benefits from being able to maintain a constant dialogue with its travel-hungry members. It’s hugely important. I think so.
Sendoid - Instant, Private, P2P File Transfers Reisen ++ Reisen günstig, billig Reisen, günstige Reise buchen, Billigreisen | Reisen.de TripHub Group Trip Advisor TravelAvenue wants to be the Pinterest for travel, with a few twists Pinterest launched quietly into the world of social networking in 2010, but then made one hell of a thud a year or so later – with obvious ramifications for travel. TravelAvenue has seen this movement towards pinning and sharing content by way of images and has been working almost in tandem along the same time-line (no pun intended, Facebook fans). Brainchild of three founders, Loic Dupont (president), Stephane Pinatton (executive director) and Stefan Surzucki (CTO), TravelAvenue now has a total of 15 people based in Paris, France. The company says it is an intermediary, in that wants to position itself as the middleman between discovery of products and booking, with a major focus on inspiration by way of images and allowing users to essentially bookmark ideas of where they want to go and what they want to do. It enters a growing but increasingly crowded space, going up against the likes of Trippy (“US-centric”) and, of course, Pinterest and the “Pinterest clones”. Tnooz view: Snap poll:
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