Amadeus Reports Strong Numbers for First Half of 2015

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Chirag Nandaniya
Aug 01, 2015

Amadeus IT Holding, S.A., reported its financial and operating results for the first six months of 2015 on Friday. The travel technology provider reported increases in several key performance metrics, compared to the first half of 2014, including adjusted profit (up 10.3 percent to €419.6 million), revenue (up 14.2 percent to €1.97 billion). Air bookings were high for Amadeus for the first half of 2015. According to the report, ai [...]

UK domestic tourism continues on a high after a record breaking start to the year

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jul 30, 2015

The latest results from the Great Britain Tourism Survey (GBTS) published by VisitEngland reveal a record breaking performance for domestic tourism in the first quarter of the year. -28.7 million trips recorded in England between January and April this year, an 18% increase YOY, the highest number of trips recorded during the first quarter since the survey began in 2006. High profile sporting events happening across England which touris [...]

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jul 15, 2015

Booking.com just revolutionized on-demand travel details for Canadians with their updated Booking Now app for Android. It offers over 690,000 accommodations that Canadians can book in just two taps – all personalized to suit the individual Canadian traveler. With today’s busy lifestyle, it is sometimes impossible to plan a vacation – today we are more of a ‘quick getaway’ kind of generation and we need to find accommodations fast an [...]

The National Federation of the Blind announces partnership with Expedia, Inc.

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jul 13, 2015

Expedia, Inc. announced that the company has entered into a collaboration agreement with the National Federation of the Blind, the leading organization of blind people in the United States. The two organizations will work in partnership with the goal of enhancing and improving accessibility for the blind on the Expedia.com and Travelocity.com websites and mobile applications. As a result of this agreement, blind travelers visiting Expedia [...]

Online sources most trusted by travellers, says global travel survey

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jun 20, 2015

Holiday-makers trust online forums and blogs the most when making travel plans, a survey by hotel booking site Agoda revealed recently.The Smart survey, conducted in April and May this year, polled over 5,500 Agoda.com customers from all over the world, asking them which sources they found most reliable when making travel plans.A total of 71% of respondents chose a combination of online forums, blogs and travel apps. It’s no surprise [...]

Cleartrip shows the value of mobile web

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jun 17, 2015

Indian OTA Cleartrip has outlined a sharp growth in mobile bookings and expects its relaunched mobile web site to drive even bigger numbers in the future.In the first three months of last year, mobile accounted for 42% of air volumes and 22% of hotel. Consecutive quarterly increases followed, and in the final three months of 2014 the figures had shot up to 54% and 38% respectively. Tablets remained constant throughout the year with 5% of hotel [...]

Expedia Accelerates Mobile Growth, Introduces Major App Updates to Address Traveler Requests

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jun 11, 2015

Expedia.com, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites, recently unveiled several major updates to its award-winning Expedia mobile apps, in response to recent company research on mobile travel behaviors. Recent Expedia app updates include: Rental Cars: With Expedia mobile app customers increasingly citing rental car bookings as a "wish list" feature, the company added the ability to book rental cars. Local Activities: [...]

Study Projects Chinese Business Travel Spending to Double by 2025

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jun 08, 2015

A new study of the Asia-Pacific market conducted by travel industry technology provider Amadeus reveals that China's annual spending on business travel is expected to double over the next 10 years. China currently spends $250 billion annually on corporate travel, but by the year 2025 the figure is projected to surpass $500 billion.Amadeus' research reinforces previous estimates by the Global Business Travel Association, which has China' [...]

Images directly impact hotel conversion, says Expedia

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Chirag Nandaniya
Jun 02, 2015

Every picture tells a story which “profoundly” impacts the opinions that online shoppers have of hotels, according to research commissioned by online travel agent Expedia. The research, which used electromyography (a technique for evaluating the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles) to gauge shoppers’ eye gaze and facial expressions, discovered that several types of images and image attributes consistently evoked emotional reac [...]

Amadeus Releases 2014 Global Report

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Chirag Nandaniya
May 21, 2015

In 2014, 526 million bookings were made via Amadeus’ systems and solutions by travel agencies (or 16 bookings per second), up from 503 million in 2013. On top of that, 695 million passengers boarded during the calendar year through Amadeus (22 passengers per second), up from 613 million passengers during the previous year. Amadeus worked with a number of travel providers in 2014, including 705 airlines, 235,000 hotel properties, 248 tour [...]

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