flights
Flights vs hotels: where is the market for meta in APAC?
Although many established metasearch markets exist in the region, there is real opportunity for differentiation and innovation in Southeast Asia In Asian markets like China, India and Japan online travel […]
Corporate Travel Demand & Macroeconomics in 2016
At a cursory glance, the diagnosis for global corporate travel demand looks healthy. Global air traffic posted its strongest year-over-year growth since the recovery from the 2008 U.S. financial […]
Google Flights now pushes flexible destination search
In February, Google Flights updated the default interface for visitors to its various main windows (google.com/flights, google.co.uk/flights, etc.) for select countries worldwide. Travelers can say goodbye to needing exact […]
Business travellers split between traditional and alternative booking channels
Figures from the GBTA Foundation show business travellers from the UK, Germany and France are fairly evenly split between booking via traditional channels and alternative methods. The study shows […]
Airline APIs can help hotels secure more direct revenues
NB: This is an article by Mystifly Hotels will be aware that, dollar for dollar, it is easier to get additional revenues from existing customers than it is to […]
Lufthansa dismisses turn against distribution surcharge
Lufthansa claims it has not seen any bookings going the way of rival carriers despite a survey of agencies in Germany pointing to a major switch in recent months. The German […]
3 things Expedia learnt from analyzing airfare data
Expedia, the travel technology giant, has analyzed its trove of data to identify key trends in air travel. The data was consolidated primarily from the Airlines Reporting Corporation, with […]
Airline system look-to-book ratios soar
Back in the good old days, say around 20 years ago, airline systems had a 10:1 ratio of searches to actual bookings. Fast forward to 2015 and a metric […]
Google power, and its latest statistics, dominate BTO
Google was a constant theme during the keynotes at last week’s Buy Tourism Online event in Florence, Italy, but Lufthansa’s distribution cost charge (DCC) also made a few honorary […]
Travellers spend more time booking hotels than flights
Sojern’s new Interactive Hotel Insights Report reveals two major consumer behaviour changes – travellers are spending more time on the hotel path to purchase than for airlines and last-minute bookers […]