EyeforTravel News: Industry Analysis Feed

Ensuring revenue growth in markets with severely failing demand characteristics

Lindi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:08:20 +0000

Revenue Management Special In the face of an impending recession, it is critical to assiduously manage revenue in a challenging environment and avoid rate erosion over the long-term.

"Legacy channels will share parity for deluxe price point purchases"

Lindi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:35 +0000

India Special New Delhi-based Lemon Tree Hotels is making steady progress towards establishing itself as an upscale hotel brand in the full-service, moderately priced category by 2010-2011.

"The challenge at the moment is to create critical mass on a much larger scale"

Lindi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:22:52 +0000

Online Travel Strategies India Special Indian travel community raahi.com has taken a cautious approach towards its product development. The site, which has focused on building three products so far, has been mindful of slowly building on the product piece by piece.

Travel sentiments across Asia Pacific are 'down but not out'

Lindi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:04:34 +0000

Travel sentiments across Asia Pacific are 'down but not out', according to a survey by Abacus International.

"We will not permit any online agent to breach our promise"

Lindi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:11:14 +0000

EFT Middle East Special Rate parity, establishing a rate structure, and the appointment of a dedicated revenue/distribution manager were some of the issues, which were keenly discussed during EyeforTravel's first Travel Distribution Middle East conference held in Dubai in June this year.

Online reviews tip the trust scales over family and friends: report

Lindi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:32:19 +0000

Online travel resources are being strongly preferred over more traditional options such as travel agencies, travel brochures and even friends and family, according to a report.

Macau.com focussed on offering "extremely broad international audience" to suppliers

Lindi — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:52:38 +0000

EyeforTravel.com China Special As a destination marketing and online travel company, Macau.com's focus is on being the first website that people planning a trip to Macau encounter when they go online to `Search, Shop and Book'.

Online marketing continues to be on the priority list of travel companies: survey

Lindi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:00:58 +0000

Most travel companies are planning to maintain their current levels of spending on online marketing, or even increase their spending, according to a new survey.

Linking "social saviness" of a supplier's target group with its social media strategy

Lindi — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:59:27 +0000

By EFT Correspondent, recently in Munich Travel companies are using social media monitoring solutions, which track and analyse all forms of social media, including blog sites, video-sharing sites and opinion review forums.

Tailoring web 2.0 developments for various markets in Europe

Lindi — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:55:34 +0000

By EFT Correspondent in Munich For a company like Expedia, any marketing initiative in a region like Europe requires balancing the local flavour for different markets and at the same time building a pan-European brand across the region.