Sentences with phrase «many travel agency»

Skift reports that Culture Trip plans to expand its website and mobile app into an online travel agency with the funding.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

Booking.com had the second - largest travel agency brand share last year globally at 3.9 percent, behind only Chinese travel giant Ctrip, according to market - research firm Euromonitor International.

The rise of online booking sites may have dealt a near - fatal blow to brick - and - mortar travel agencies — but don't count them out just yet.

In 2011, efforts by American Airlines Group Inc. to elude the distribution firms by providing its own schedule and fare data directly to larger online travel agencies triggered a series of lawsuits over access to such data.

«Our hotel partners loved the app, it provides incremental revenue, and they wanted to be able to sell rooms earlier instead of selling them through legacy online travel agencies,» Shank said.

«The goal is to be a full - service alternative to the legacy travel agencies and provide an experience that's faster, and provides better value,» Shank said.

In «Trep Talk, David Mendal shares how he turned a tiny travel agency into a luxury vacation powerhouse, including private jets, yachts and more.

Online travel agencies are actively courting small businesses; Expedia, for example, recently launched a loyalty program.

You don't have to run an adventure travel agency to capitalize on this trend.

During the Olympic period, various travel agencies and tour operators are noting a slowdown in hotel bookings, with overall vacancy rates of up to 35 %.

The Making of a Multimillionaire Luxury Travel Mogul David Mendal turned a tiny travel agency into a luxury vacation powerhouse, including private jets, yachts and more.

Carmakers are creating safer vehicles, architects are constructing stronger buildings and even travel agencies are using it to simplify vacation planning.

Under his leadership, Expedia's revenues grew from $ 2.1 billion in 2005 to $ 8.7 billion in 2016, and the company became the biggest online travel agency in the US by snatching up rivals Orbitz, HomeAway, Travelocity, and Hotels.com.

Toward that end, some hotel chains, in deals they have with online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Expedia, have forbidden those companies from bidding on keyword ads on Google and other ad networks that would include the hotels» brand names, according to the editorial.

It's how Uniglobe has managed to remain a $ 250 - million bricks - and - mortar travel agency business in the age of online travel booking.

But that hasn't been the case for online travel agencies.

That study reinforces what several online travel agencies are reporting.

Many travel agencies and tour operators discourage bookings this time of year because of the disruption, but luckily for its tourism sector, March is typically already low - demand season.

The problem, he said, is the GDS, a worldwide network that serves both traditional and online travel agencies.

The move compensates for the fees airlines pay to travel agencies, especially those online.

Automation may also make some small businesses obsolete — just as online booking dealt a fatal blow to many travel agencies.

Expedia, the online travel agency controlled by Barry Diller, said it is cutting its plan to buy back its own shares by almost 80 percent, blaming a lack of attractive financing available in credit markets.

Pamela Wright, founder of Wright Travel, a $ 5 - million corporate travel agency in Nashville, gets facts and figures on upcoming trends and the competition from Travel Trust International (TTI), a Bethesda, Md., group of more than 100 independent agents.

So she joined Virtuoso, a travel agency network that negotiates deals on behalf of its 380 member agencies.

She has offered discounted services to customers of Fairmont Hotels, the Virtuoso travel agency, Expedia and Zolo, one of the largest wedding registries in the U.S., to name a few.

Expedia, the world's largest online travel agency by bookings, said it expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2016 subject to regulatory approval.

After moving to Canada for an internship and working at travel agencies here, he identified two underserved populations to match up: travellers looking to get around, and charter buses sitting idle.

Cruise Planners - American Express Travel Cruise & tour travel agency Startup cost: $ 1.6K - 19.5 K Total franchises / co.

Startups are using chat too — like Digit, a free app that hunts your spending patterns for opportunities to make withdrawals into savings, or Pana, a chat - interfaced virtual travel agency that creepily promises there are some real humans in there somewhere.

However, the London - based luxury travel agency Black Tomato wants to turn the idea of planning a trip on its head with a new program offering called Get Lost.

But the solution was sitting right in front of him: Bloom's graduate student Liang, who was also CEO and co-founder of China's biggest travel agency.

Khosrowshahi is an Iranian - born US citizen who spent the last 12 years running Expedia, the online travel agency used by millions of people around the world.

Her family - owned travel empire encompasses over 800 hotels in 67 countries, one of the world's largest travel agencies, and more T.G.I. Friday's than you can shake a chicken finger at.

(There are even more valuation methods for travel agencies than pricing packages offered by the cruise lines!)

Then perhaps you should consider a business that has the potential to be a shore thing: a cruise - focused travel agency based in the metro Washington, D.C., area.

Meanwhile, with the added stock of accommodations thanks to Airbnb and the slug in ticket sales, travel agencies are reportedly slashing the prices of empty hotel rooms, according to a recent report in Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico.

For Jeff Austin, president and chief operating officer of Austin Travel Corp., a 225 - employee chain of travel agencies based in Melville, N.Y., his 10 - year - long relationship with his bank's loan officers has survived several rounds of bank mergers.

«eDreams notes Ryanair's latest attack on the fast - growing online travel agency («OTA») sector.

But a paper published just last week out of Stanford University said performance increased 13 percent when employees of a Chinese travel agency were allowed to work from home on a trial basis.»

We are also teaming up with travel agency Traveling Coin to announce the launch of BitcoinBowlPackages.com - the only official Bitcoin Bowl travel site where all packages can be purchased with bitcoin.

As a new hire with Alamo Rent - A-Car, I was assigned 624 travel agencies in my territory.

For Tzell, that's been based largely on expanding its independent agent model into a form of consolidation that's really a partnership with other travel agencies, allowing it to leverage their volume without actually buying the partner's assets.

«From there, we branched out by opening a travel agency and then we got into corporate meeting planning,» says Klein.

Last week, Airbnb published an open letter encouraging boutique hotels to use its platform over online travel agencies, touting its lower fees.

Reinforcing Travel and Transport's position among the very largest U.S. travel agencies, Ultramar will operate as a subsidiary and retain its branding and management.

«A key theme [for online travel agencies] is a shift to direct customer acquisition to drive app downloads and direct engagement,» says Douglas Quinby, senior VP of research at Phocuswright.

These next few tips have helped me continuously grow my startup, Wakanow, an online traveling agency for people traveling to and from Africa.

A year in the making between respective CEOs Barry Liben and Priscilla Alexander, Travel Leaders Group's acquisition last month of Protravel was nothing new in the long - term process of consolidation among business travel agencies.

In the $ 164 billion U.S. lodging market, booking fees are now nearly split between online travel agencies such as Expedia, with $ 39 billion, and hotels, with $ 38 billion, according to Phocuswright, a New York - based travel market research company.