Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
Date :27/10/2015
The partnership builds on Delta’s customer-driven approach, offering a full description of the flight experience passengers are buying. Expedia‘s new display lists fees for checking bags or canceling a reservation, as well as the perks of a particular fare. Delta provided all of the product, fare and cost information. The move, which attracted media attention, signifies … Continue reading Delta, Expedia team up to make airline fees more transparent →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :24/10/2015
Travelport, a leading Travel Commerce Platform, has announced it has signed a new long term agreement with Tripsta, one of the biggest online travel agencies in Europe. Tripsta, based in Greece, operates the travelplanet24 brand and recently merged with airtickets.com to create the largest OTA in South East Europe and Greece’s largest e-commerce company. Tripsta … Continue reading Travelport and Tripsta announce new agreement →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :23/10/2015
Expedia, Inc. introduced several new flight products and services designed to help improve the air travel experience for both customers and industry partners worldwide. The company is investing in tools to enable customers to compare and understand flight components in a transparent way, by making vast improvements to its global air products to address traveler … Continue reading Expedia introduces clearer fare choices and new site features – Enhancements to improve the air travel experience →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :15/10/2015
TripAdvisor and The Priceline Group announced a strategic partnership whereby some of The Priceline Group’s online travel brands will participate in TripAdvisor’s instant booking platform. Within The Priceline Group, Booking.com will be the first brand to implement the partnership through its global network of accommodations, and in time, Priceline Group brands priceline.com and Agoda.com are … Continue reading Tripadvisor and The Priceline Group announce instant booking partnership →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :14/10/2015
When it comes to business travel, there’s a simple truth that every business traveler is also a leisure traveler. Booking.com reveals that more and more of its leisure travelers are making business bookings on its site, with almost one in five now made for business travel. As the face of business travel changes, the largest accommodation … Continue reading Business Travel Takes Off on Booking.com →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :12/10/2015
The global travel technology market to grow at a CAGR of 7.9% over the period 2014-2019. Technology is seeping in the travel industry; globally, online travel sales has increased to more than $600 billion in 2014, which constitutes nearly one-third of the total travel sales. One of the fourth most such applications is flight tracking. Earlier, … Continue reading Global Travel Technology Market Opportunity, Trends and Forecast 2015-2019 – Key Vendors are Amadeus, Navitaire, Sabre & Travelport →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :10/10/2015
Expedia is a traveller’s dream – dozens of web sites and subsidiaries offering travel, accommodation, car hire and more. That is really the start of Expedia Inc. and its subsequent acquisition of Trivago, Hotwire.com, CarRentals.com. Travelocity, elong, Hotels.com, Venere.com, Classic Vacations, Orbitz and recently Australia’s Wotif.com, LastMinute.com, Travel.com.au and AsiaWeb Direct. It now has some 18,000 employees. Expedia … Continue reading Expedia’s 10th birthday in Australia – success built on technology →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :09/10/2015
Travelport has announced the acquisition and vertical integration of its distributor in Austria, TraviAustria. TraviAustria was founded in 1987 by Austrian Airlines, an original shareholder in the predecessor company of Travelport.In addition to providing local sales, support and marketing activity for the Travelport travel commerce platform to travel agencies in Austria, TraviAustria built and operates one … Continue reading Travelport acquires Austrian distributor TraviAustria →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :07/10/2015
A new range of fares is being made available by Transavia via Travelport’s travel commerce platform as it seeks to attract more business travellers. The Air France-KLM group low-cost carrier has also signed up to the technology company’s rich content and branding solution to better control how its services are visually presented and described to travel … Continue reading Transavia ups Travelport’s fare range in bid to entice business travellers →
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- Posted by :Chirag Nandaniya
- Date :06/10/2015
If you still need to book flights for the holidays, now is a good time to book domestic flights at decent prices, according to data from an online travel agency. That’s because this time of year falls in the “sweet spot” for booking domestic flights in advance of the holidays. Domestic flights 50 to 100 days … Continue reading Now is best time to book holiday travel, says Expedia →
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