Is it time for airlines to decide on what sort of products and partnerships to focus on?...
TDS Asia 2009 Special Over the last 12 months or so, airlines have been increasingly counting on ancillary revenues as the main driver for registering strong profit margins going forward. It is being acknowledged that maximising ancillary return is not...
Social Media : Wake Up and Smell The Engagement!...
There has over the past few months been a lot of heated debate about the business value of Social Media. A lot of it seems to be centred around the commercial ROI of advertising through the various Social Media channels....
Yahoo chooses Carol Bartz as its new leader...
Carol Bartz, former chief executive of software company Autodesk, has been chosen as CEO of Yahoo! Bartz, who was most recently executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, a CAD software company, where she served as chairman, president and CEO...
The Majority of CMOs are Still Unsure how to Work with Sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo...
The social media landscape is currently dominated by just a handful of general social networking sites. For instance, MySpace was the destination for 76% of US social networking visits in 2008. EyeforTravel recently conducted extensive research for their 2nd Social...
SkyEurope's fleet shrinks...
Low-cost airline SkyEurope said its fleet had shrunk to five planes over the past few months from an original 15 Boeing 737s it had last autumn. The airline recently had to return six planes to a leasing company "based on...
GO Travel Direct launches low cost transatlantic flights...
GO Travel Direct, a direct-sell tour operator, has added low-cost, scheduled transatlantic air service to its travel product line. Beginning this summer, consumers in Winnipeg, St. Johns, Toronto, Halifax and Montreal can fly to Europe direct non-stop with GO Travel...
More travel leaders to speak at Travel Distribution Summit Asia...
In the latest speaker announcement for April’s Travel Distribution Summit Asia, we see industry veterans Nathan Clapton (TripAdvisor), Michael Lee (BanyanTree Hotels & Resorts) and Peter Gammon (Abacus) join the growing list of senior presenters featuring on the 2009 program....
Globe Span Capital Corporation acquires Zoom Airlines...
Zoom Airlines, the low-cost transatlantic carrier that collapsed last summer, may be resurrected by a Canadian venture capitalist. According to reports in the Canadian press, Kingston's Globe Span Capital Corporation announced this week the acquisition of Zoom Airlines Inc. James...
The outlook for the hotel industry during the current stagnant economy...
Given the current state of the economy, and the growing consensus that a recession is near, if not here, what is the outlook for the hotel industry? The slowdown of the economy didn’t happen suddenly, it has been happening since...
Qunar comments on copyright infringement verdict...
Qunar.com has expressed disappointment over the decision handed down on January 6th by Beijing's Haidian District People's Court. "While Qunar follows the principles and nature of search engines, in this specific case of the partial display and linking back to...
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