23/07/2009

News Update - July 23, 2009

Source: m-travel.com...

Virgin Atlantic and Carnival Cruises Discuss their Social Media Strategies...
Carnival Cruises and Virgin Atlantic will join the exciting line up of speakers for EyeforTravel’s upcoming Social Media Strategies in Travel conference in Prague. Allison Wightman, Head of Marketing Systems at Virgin Atlantic will be discussing the strategy behind the...

Are Vacation Rentals the Hottest Growth Area in Online Travel?...
Renting a vacation home from a private party has been an option for many decades. But, today with the rapid expansion of the Internet and online marketing, the vacation rental market is one of the hottest growing sectors in travel...

Yahoo! stresses on power of its homepage...
Yahoo! has stressed that the “incredible” volume of traffic redirected from its site can actually set records and define winning sites. Citing an example, Carol Bartz, CEO of the company, said, in a span of just two hours last month...

66pc of 120,000 passengers vote for free standing flights...
Ryanair has found that over 80,000 (66 percent) passengers voting in an online poll said they would stand on short one hour flights if it meant that their fare would be free. Over 120,000 passengers voted in the poll with...

Online travel sector needs to improve overall customer engagement: survey...
Online travel sites need to work harder at improving the entire end to end website experience if they are to build trusted, long-term relationships that encourage customers to buy from them time and time again, according to a study. As...

SynXis to enable hotels to connect directly with Expedia...
SynXis has launched an interface for independent hotels and small- to medium-size hotel chains to link directly from its central reservation systems to Expedia. SynXis can now connect its more than 10,000 hotel customers to either Expedia QuickConnect, a hotel...

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