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Online Travel Agent Sees Sales Increase by 6.75% With VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Certificates
White Papers As part of a publicly listed national travel company, it has negotiated great deals with leading hotel chains, which makes it an attractive, fast and cost-effective way for consumers to book rooms. Founded in November 2004 QuickRooms.com, is an...
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Online travel sales take off in UK
News The UK online travel industry is predicted to be worth £3.7bn by 2005 according to a new report by Forrester Research, who valued the market at a mere £592m last year. Online travel sales are set to account for 14 percent of total leisure travel...
[March 6, 2001, 16:21]
Online travel portal nears departure
News The UK's online travel information service has completed the second stage of its development with enhanced features now available as a test portal, the Department for Transport (DfT) said. Following the upgrades, the site has a postcode search...
[August 4, 2004, 12:20]
Mangocity Leads China's Online Travel Services Industry With Avaya Solutions
White Papers As a new entrant in 2006, Mangocity's biggest challenge was to differentiate its travel portal from those hosted by the incumbents. The online tourism industry in China is extremely competitive, with many dominant and established players.
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
IBM Reduces Corporate Travel Costs With Realtime Online Reservation System
White Papers To solve the problem, IBM deployed an easy-to-use, self-service online booking system that encourages travel policy compliance and enables better control of the travel management process across the entire company.
[September 22, 2004, 0:00]
Inspiring trust - Creating a secure and customer focused online travel portal
White Papers At the company's inception, five years ago, the Internet was viewed in a somewhat sceptical way, and some customers were unwilling to make purchases online. Online security, especially at this time, was considered to be of primary importance to Opodo.
[October 29, 2006, 11:14]
Wall Street smitten with online travel
News We can make a lot of money in online travel," said Schulman, who noted Priceline accounts for about 10 percent of online travel sales. Schulman sounded quite smitten about the online travel business. Online travel agency Expedia reported its first...
[May 2, 2001, 13:24]
Microsoft to spin off Expedia in IPO
News Microsoft announced Thursday that it would spin off its online travel service site Expedia in an initial public offering valued at $75m (£47m) later this year. Expedia, which reported a loss of $29.5m on sales of $13.8m in fiscal 1998, provides a...
[September 24, 1999, 8:49]
Red Hat Provides Priceline.com With Cost-Effective, High-Performance Solutions
White Papers Priceline.com Incorporated operates Priceline.com, a leading US online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Priceline Europe, a leading European online hotel reservation service. As an Internet-based travel service provider...
[November 12, 2008, 0:01]
Britons go online to get away
News Online travel sites have stood out as one of the most popular categories on the Web throughout the peak holiday period of June and July, according to Internet research company Jupiter MMXI. Age does not appear to be factor that significantly...
[August 6, 2001, 14:17]
Take a longer look at accessibility
Leader It's easy to overlook today's story about two online travel firms agreeing to make their sites easier for blind surfers to navigate. A study conducted earlier this year found that 79 percent of the 105 UK Web sites tested failed basic compliance...
[August 23, 2004, 11:45]
News Burst: Lastminute.com buys French company for £59m
News Lastminute.com could creep into the black earlier than anticipated after its £59m buyout of French online travel agency Degriftour, announced Monday. The takeover of privately-owned Degriftour will make Lastminute the leading European travel site...
[August 14, 2000, 10:05]
Bad news for travel Web sites
News Shares of online travel agencies Expedia and Travelocity slumped Thursday after airlines Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines jointly said they would eliminate Internet travel commissions. Airline ticket sales account for a big chunk of...
[March 2, 2001, 11:35]
Jamber Design Case Study: Travel Editions
White Papers They had no facility for taking bookings online, which considering the way the online travel sector has expanded in recent years, potentially left them behind their competitors. Travel Editions existing website was bringing in business, without a...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Expedia embarks on Nasdaq
News Expedia, the online travel agency formerly launched by Microsoft, Wednesday announced the initial public offering of its common stock on the US' Nasdaq National Market under the trading symbol EXPE. Expedia, which reported a loss of $29.5m (£18.3m...
[November 10, 1999, 16:34]
Expedia takes off on first operating profit
News Online travel site Expedia topped analysts' estimates in its third quarter Monday, posting an operating profit of $4.4m (£3.08m), or 9 cents a share, on sales of $110m. Some analysts warned that other airlines would soon follow suit, forcing online...
[May 1, 2001, 10:46]
The Day Ahead: Expedia's independence pays, Musicmaker's swan song
News Expedia reported a smaller-than-expected loss and announced two acquisitions that bolster its position in the online travel world. Expedia had solid numbers overall, but we're not going to tell you Microsoft's travel baby will win pulling away.
[February 1, 2000, 11:31]
RightNow hopes for premium travel
News The online travel company Thomascook.com has ignored market leaders Siebel and Salesforce.com and is now cutting costs and building tailored solutions in its customer service business using RightNow's CRM offerings.
[October 18, 2005, 17:25]
US officials order e-ticketing restrictions
News Federal authorities have implemented new regulations for electronic airline tickets as part of tighter security at US airports, effectively taking away much of the convenience of online travel. Travelocity and Expedia, another online travel agency...
[September 14, 2001, 9:43]
Boo.com is resurrected
News Boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site, using user-generated content to help travellers decide which hotels to book.
[May 2, 2007, 16:09]
