Apple Patents “iTravel” – mobile booking and ticketless check-in App for iPhone...
PatentlyApple reported today that Apple has filed a patent for a travel app called iTravel that books flights, hotels and car reservations, as well as providing ticketless check-in using Near Field Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless technology. Apple has already...
Mobile travel bookings + ancillary revenues = fundamentally flawed business model?...
Tim Gunstone, Managing Director, EyeforTravel Whilst airlines often seem to be losing money, they have always led innovation in the online travel industry. But can they adapt their increasingly complex ancillary focussed booking paths to the fast growing mobile platform?...
What customers want at a time of travel disruption...
By Andrew Hull, Director of Product Marketing at RightNow As if the airline industry hasn’t been hit hard enough in recent times, who’d have bet that an erupting volcano in Iceland would close European flight paths for a week? I...
Online travel bookings set to continue recession-busting performance...
A new study has found that the UK is expected to spend £41.1 billion on travel in 2010 – a welcome increase in total travel spend of 2.4%. However, following last week’s volcano eruption, the UK travel industry’s marginal recovery...
Hotel reservations impacted to a lesser extent than expected...
The flight cancellations owing to Ash cloud have inevitably affected hotel reservation patterns, but to a lesser extent than one might expect, according to Trust International. Providing an insight into disruption to hotel booking patterns since the start of the...
Anticipating travellers needs at different points in the online journey...
Travel organisations need to improve image and destination content online, according to a survey of more than 1,600 people carried out for Frommer’s Unlimited by eDigitalResearch. This second annual consumer survey was carried out to mark trends in travel decision...
Travel sector leading in customer enhancement products: study...
A new research has indicated that 83.3% of travel businesses including travel agents, OTA’s and car rental companies now provide add-ons or enhancements to their core offering. According to a new research carried out by incremental revenue specialists Collinson Latitude,...
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