The most recent Thanksgiving data report from Travelocity(R) shows that while airfare is on the rise for the Thanksgiving holiday, hotel rates are falling fast. When compared to five weeks ago, average domestic airfare rose $10 while domestic hotel rates dropped $16 per night on average.
When it comes to making travel purchasing decisions, most American travelers would rather see the options for themselves than simply act on the recommendations of others. In fact, travelers want to view the options in detail via pictures, online maps and video.
SPACE ACCESS(R), a Miami-based company, will revolutionize the tourism industry by introducing affordable space travel made possible through its advanced enabling technologies.
Urges Continued Government-Industry Collaboration
Today Corporate Planners Unlimited, Inc. announces the opening of its new Mega Convention Center, VIRTUALIS, the largest virtual tradeshow, meeting, conference and community gathering and special event and innovative conference and community gathering space in Second Life.
American Airlines today named Kurt Stache as its Vice President and General Sales Manager. Stache will be responsible for all of American's sales activities worldwide with sales organizations throughout American's network reporting to him.
Stockholm Waterfront has been launched with great expectations - a congress centre with facilities for up to 3,000 people and a four-star hotel with 418 rooms right in the very heart of Stockholm.
As the high season for travel to Mexico kicked off on Thanksgiving weekend, early indicators are that both tourism and the second-home market remain strong despite recent setbacks in the U.S. economy.
Online student travel leader StudentUniverse.com today released its lists of the top domestic and international Spring Break 2008 destinations for US college students.
American Airlines and its regional partner, American Eagle, today began launching 16 new routes, both domestic and international. All are part of announced schedule changes that take effect today, Dec. 13. Some of the new routes that operate less-than-daily frequencies will operate their first flights later this week.
AthleticMindedTraveler.com Announces Its Annual Best Hotel Gym List
Historic Agreement Means Significant Growth in Chinese Visitors to NYC, Follows Opening of New York City's First Representative Office in Shanghai Earlier This Year
It's a baby lynx kitten, and a wolf puppy, and a mountain lion cub. These are some of the animals on the tails of the new Lynx Aviation aircraft, which after months of training, proving runs and a rigorous certifications process, took to the skies on Friday, Dec. 7, with an inaugural flight to Billings, Mont.
There's No Place Like Hotel for Holiday Travelers
In flight messaging tools will soon be an essential component of serving business travelers, and airlines will ultimately be forced to improve cabin data services in order to retain business customers, according to a soon-to-be-released study from Freesky Research.
Australia's controversial marketing campaign, launched in February 2006, showing typical Australian scenes accompanied by the blunt tag line: 'So Where the Bloody Hell Are you?' has been very successful.
Changes All Along the Line: How the Internet Is Transforming Packaged-Travel Distribution
Passenger numbers in January look set to break new growth records across all regions, for a variety of different factors and with many of the usual downsides. The latest consistent international and domestic passenger data is from ACI. It relates to the largest airports in October and shows total passenger numbers rising by 6.2% in the month and international passengers by 8.3%.
Regent Seven Seas and Oceania Cruises to Remain Independent Brands
Alaska Airlines today inaugurated nonstop, year-round service between Anchorage, Alaska, and Honolulu. The airline launched nonstop Seattle-Honolulu service Oct. 12 and nonstop Seattle-Lihue, Hawaii, service Oct. 28.
The new company, TUI Cruises, will begin service with one ship, in early 2009, and grow quickly with two newbuilds planned for 2011 and 2012.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (AMEX:HA) , today announced its systemwide traffic statistics for the month of November and year-to-date (see chart below). In November, Hawaiian served 592,441 passengers, while recording Revenue Passengers Miles (RPMs) of 681,133,000, Available Seat Miles (ASMs) of 768,024,000, and Load Factor (LF) of 88.7 percent.
TravBuddy successfully integrates a hotel search engine using HotelsCombined's API
Recent findings from EyeforTravel's 'Online Marketing Report' reveal that 79% of travel industry executives view social media as a long-term part of the online marketing mix. The evidence is clear: For the travel industry as a whole, UGC and social networking is not a passing fad - it's a must.
Following the successful World Tourism Day 2007 theme 'Tourism opens doors for women', the General Assembly underscored the importance of World Tourism Day (WTD) to be conceived as a yearly campaign to raise awareness on the constructive social role of tourism.
Alaska's November traffic increased 7.6 percent to 1.506 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs)
AAA has updated its Diamond Rating Guidelines, the blueprint for assigning Diamond Ratings to more than 32,000 lodgings throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, to reflect current trends in the industry.
People are willing to pay up to 99 percent more for services after reading positive online reviews about them, according to new research.
Aberdeen Group Study Finds Growing Demand for End-to-End Corporate Travel and Expense Management Solution.
Luxury markets will continue to expand, while consumers of all high-end luxury products will hone their tastes ever more pointedly. The urge for self expression will spread while a new ethical and environmental consciousness will take an even firmer hold. These are among the many forces that will help dictate where and how the affluent will spend their money in the new year of 2008.
Deloitte is releasing its 2008 Travel Industry Trends Report, which finds that five key trends will have a significant impact on industry expectations, strategies and brands in 2008.
American Express Business Travel announces results of 2007 China Business Travel Survey
Gas prices are rising, home sales have stalled and the stock market is more volatile than Great Adventure's Kingda Ka roller coaster. The perfect escape? A visit to one of the globe's most lavish hotels.
Perhaps the first hotel that actually wants its guests to climb the walls, the Galactic Suite - projected to debut in 2012 - will provide you with Velcro-lined space duds so you can move Spidey-like from room to room.
American Airlines, the world's largest airline, reported a November load factor of 81.2 percent -- an increase of 1.5 points compared to the same period last year. Traffic increased 4.1 percent year over year as capacity increased 2.2 percent.
United Airlines today reported its preliminary traffic results for November 2007. The company reported a November passenger load factor of 79.6 percent.
Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL) reported a November consolidated (mainline plus regional) load factor of 80.1 percent, 0.6 points below the November 2006 consolidated load factor, and a mainline load factor of 80.4 percent, 0.7 points below the November 2006 mainline load factor.
U.S. Visitors Up Nearly 12% for Month, 5% Year-to-Date
Improvement Trend is Expected to Reverse a Five-Year Decline that was Triggered in Part the by 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Hotel Committee Updates RFP with Environmental, Dynamic Pricing Questions to Meet Industry Needs
Many search marketing tactics come and go, but one channel of promotion that has steadily evolved is the practice of optimizing press releases for search engines.
SoCruise is set to create the UK's leading online cruise agent and online cruise community.
Few marketing programs completely fulfill one's hopes. In the new year, marketers should avoid over-hyped opportunities to focus on measuring success by one satisfied customer at a time.
Market Metrix Announces Third Quarter 2007 Hospitality Index Results
Travel Weekly List Includes YTB CEO with Richard Branson and Al Gore
The NBTA Foundation, the education and research foundation of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA), today provided NBTA members a report that allows individual travel managers to compare their compensation levels and benefits to those of their peers.
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Travel industry leaders today said despite weather-related delays in some parts of the country, overall the Thanksgiving weekend showed that a comprehensive approach to improving the travel experience can work.
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