(TDN): Viator.com, the leading resource for researching and booking more than 5,500 trip activities and experiences in 75 countries at the best prices, today announced the debut of four new European local-language sites: viatorcom.dk in Danish, viatorcom.nl in Dutch, viatorcom.no in Norwegian and viatorcom.se in Swedish.
According to PhoCusWright, Scandinavian countries (defined in their research as the combined travel markets of Denmark, Norway and Sweden) collectively rank sixth (more…)
(TDN): TRI Hospitality Consulting reports London hotels are forecast to enjoy increasing profitability during 2010. At the same time, while hotels in the UK provinces will see a slight dip in profitability during 2010, they will accelerate to almost double digit growth in 2011.
“Our research indicates that there is a close relationship between movements in rooms revenue performance and total revenue performance for both UK (more…)
(TDN): In keeping with its endeavor to continually offer its guests a number of value additions across a range of categories, Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has announced its special ‘Boarding Card Delights’ programme. This initiative enables all guests traveling on Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect and JetLite to avail of a range of special offers and attractive discounts against their boarding cards from renowned programme partners. The programme is applicable with immediate effect until April 30, 2010.
‘Boarding Card Delights’ currently has 15 established brands as programme partners, across five (more…)
(TDN): Austrian Airlines and Amadeus have signed a long-term “Full Content” agreement. The contract runs until the end of 2014. As of 1 March 2010, travel agencies worldwide will have guaranteed access to the full range of Austrian Airlines fares and inventory through Amadeus, with no surcharge.
The agreement ensures that Austrian Airlines’ schedules, fares, last seat availability and associated inventory (more…)
(TDN): Norwegian continues the strong passenger growth. In January, Norwegian transported 827,743 passengers which is a 28 percent increase from the same period last year. This months strong passenger growth and load factor is very satisfactory, particularly taking into consideration that January is seasonally the weakest month of the year.
“We are continuously renewing sour fleet with more Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The brand new aircraft (more…)
(TDN): Wizz Air announced that it would enter the Serbian market by opening two new routes from Belgrade, as early as Summer 2010. The initial network will include services to Dortmund and London Luton from 12 June and 24 July respectively.
Gyorgy Abran, Chief Commercial Officer of Wizz Air said: “We are delighted to extend our service offering to the Serbian passengers, who can now enjoy our low fares coupled (more…)
(TDN): Representing close to 25 percent of the leisure market, Vacation.com, North America’s leading travel services marketing organization, is cautiously optimistic about the upcoming year after analyzing membership sales reports. Early results from wave season are positive; member agents cite that demand is high with a vast majority of suppliers.
“Many factors are lining up, making us firmly believe that 2010 will be a very good year for our members,” said John Lovell, Vacation.com’s vice president of Sales & Industry (more…)
(TDN): The serviced apartment sector is proving one of the early beneficiaries of increased corporate confidence as early 2010 sees a resurgence in business travel. Paul Constantinou, Chairman of Quest Serviced Apartments, says his franchisees are already seeing an increase in the number of corporate organisations seeking serviced apartments for their travelling executives.
“Already these accommodation options are attracting increased patronage in 2010 and make up the fastest growing sector in the industry. Quest bookings are solid for the first quarter of the year which suggests despite the turn in the economy, companies (more…)
(TDN): Economic research firm e-forecasting.com in conjunction with Smith Travel Research announced that their U.S. hotel industry leading indicator-HIL-increased during December, the ninth consecutive monthly increase for the indicator. The indicator went up 1.8 percent during the month, following a 1.3-percent increase in November.
HIL, a monthly leading indicator for the U.S. hotel industry, is a composite leading indicator that, on average, leads the industry’s business activity four to five months in advance. The latest increase brought the index to a reading of 109.4. The index (more…)
(TDN): The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) will be joining the Asia and Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions (ASPIRE)partnership, by signing the Joint Agreement on 1 February 2010.
The ASPIRE was initiated by the United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Airways New Zealand and Airservices Australia. The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (more…)
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