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High-flying days over for online travel sites (Chicago Tribune)
Web site traffic tumbles on steep decline in passengers Not only are Americans flying less as the economy tanks, they're spending less time scouting the Internet for travel deals, creating an unprecedented drop in traffic for online travel agencies like Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide Inc.
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travel bookings will jump by 19 percent in 2008 despite global economic challenges (Hospitality Net)
As the European travel industry faces global economic pressure, online booking channels continue to increase market share. Online sales growth for leisure/unmanaged business travel for 2008, projected at 19 percent, is significantly greater than the 3 percent rate expected for the European travel industry as a whole. Internet bookings of leisure/unmanaged business travel will represent 29 ...
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Transport for London rolls out online travel tools (Mad.co.uk)
Transport for London (TFL) has rolled out a travel tools page and a range of new features to its website in a bid to aid the customer experience. The Travel Tools page aggregates many of the travel features across the site into one central hub.
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PYOTravel.com plans bigger online ad budget (Business Times (Malaysia))
ONLINE travel agency Plan Your Own Travel.com (PYOTravel.com) expects to increase its advertising budget for online marketing to 90 per cent by 2009.
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EXPAT GROUP OFFERS TRAVEL ARRANGEMENT AS AIRPORT CLOSURE LIKELY TO PROLONG (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Bernama) -- Thaivisa.com, Thailand's biggest expat forum, has joined the band wagon to assist thousands of stranded passengers by offering travel arrangements as there is still no solution in sight to the closure of Bangkok's two airports.
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YouGovSiraj reveals its latest travel tracker (AME Info)
Travel has become more localised within the region and there is a shift away from business class use, as travellers respond to fears of a recession, according to YouGovSiraj's latest travel tracker.
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Not all travel websites are created equal (Miami Herald)
You can't know just by looking at a site whether it's OK, even if it has seals and endorsements. That's not to say that all online agencies are bogus -- far from it -- but when consumers moved from bricks to clicks, they lost that human connection. You can look a travel agent in the eye, but a cursor is impenetrable.
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Travel Distribution Summit India Day 2 is cancelled. (eyefortravel.com)
Due to the terror attacks on Mumbai last night we have had to cancel day 2 of the Travel Distribution Summit India. If you have any questions please call me Tim Gunstone on +44 207 3757557.
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Travel agents won't sell Jet tickets, want commission system back (New Kerala)
New Delhi, Dec 1: Travel agents' associations Monday decided to stop selling tickets of India's leading private airline Jet Airways and its sister carrier JetLite from Dec 4, protesting against the air operators' decision to scrap a five percent agents' commission.
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An expensive surprise: Life at sea takes a visa (MSNBC)
The Belams found a deal through an online travel agency that priced a 21-day cruise to Brazil at $2,200 per person — a good value. Or so they thought.
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