22/07/2011

News Update - July 22, 2011

Source: m-travel.com...

Gearing up for maximising profitability across segments and revenue streams...
Revenue Management Special: Preferred Hotel Group’s Brij Bhushan Chachra believes the critical issues for RM at this juncture are: human resources, the understanding of new distribution platforms and social media By Ritesh Gupta Revenue management in the hotel industry is...

Skyscanner’s iPhone app reaches 2m download-mark...
Travel search site Skyscanner says its ‘All flights, everywhere’ iPhone app has reached a new milestone with two million downloads. The free app, which launched earlier this year, generated over 100,000 downloads within the first week and Skyscanner hopes to...

“Ad spending is still not keeping up with the time consumers spend online”...
Digital advertising spending will climb more than 20 percent this year and will continue growing in the double digits for the next three years, eMarketer estimates. According to eMarketer, specifically, it is the print budget that will increasingly take a...

Hg2 works on vtravelled.com’s editorial strategy...
Virgin Atlantic has shared that it has been working with city guide publisher Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to… for its social travel community site, vtravelled.com. Hg2, which was chosen to work on vtravelled.com’s editorial strategy, spent the last six...

Travelocity expands its mobile offerings...
Online travel agency Travelocity has launched its Android application. Beth Murphy, Travelocity’s vice president of product marketing, said,“Our customers continue to look to their mobile devices as a single place for flight and itinerary details, great travel deals and in-trip...

Visit Sweden works on two new Facebook apps...
Visit Sweden has worked on two new Facebook apps, which also feature initiatives from two leading airlines from Europe. Both apps have been developed by Glue Isobar. For the first one, created to promote Skåne in Southern Sweden, Visit Sweden...

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