Choose your own price for hotel stays A couple of weeks ago I wrote about 3 businesses that had experimented with letting consumers pay what they want and I tried to see how this might be adopted by the travel industry as it struggles with a mis-match of capacity in 2009 which will surely be [...]
Tag Archives: Travel Trends
Hitwise Travel Stats
Hitwise Flight Search Data A lot has been written in early January about some headline grabbing figures from hitwise that said that searches for flights were 42% down in the week after Crimbo compared with the year before.Original article by Robin Goad at hitwise Disussion at Travolution and TravelRants My thoughts on the matter: People [...]
2009 Travel Industry Predictions Roundup
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! A round up of crytal ball gazing on what 2009 will bring for travel and tourism. Feel free to use the comments section to make more predictions for the travel industry in 2009. Lastminute.com shorter holiday durations shift to more competitively priced hotels destinations to do well – UK, Bulgaria, Tunisia, [...]
Travel programmes to promote in the credit crunch
Which Travel affiliate programmes can do well in the credit crisis ? As we enter 2009, the £ moves ever closer to equalling the €, more and more people worry about the cost of living and losing their jobs and major travel players cut capacity it might not be the best year to be a [...]
