Press release of the day!
by Kevin MayPING! This just in...Coastal communities cash in on lucrative love medicine8 January 2008A remote fishing village in southern Madagascar has sold its first batch of locally farmed sea cucumbers - believed to be a potent love medicine in southeast... Read more »
Is a little context needed on flight search plummet stories?
by Kevin MayHitwise is scaring the hell out of the everyone today with data from the week ending 5 January 2009 showing that flight searches in hte UK were down 42.4% on the same week 12 months before.Searches to the US and Eurozone countries have falled... Read more »
What can we expect next from Lonely Planet?
by Kevin MayThere is no question that Lonely Planet has come a very long way since its days as a publisher of dog-eared guidebooks for overlanders from Kathmandu to Istanbul.The Thorn Tree forum, online destination guides and white labelled meta search... Read more »
Bedbanks are not as cool as airlines but they are more interesting
by Kevin MayThe most frustrating on-off deal of the latter part of last year was finally completed yesterday when the Thomas Cook Group bought lastminute.com's MedHotels for an undisclosed fee.Rumours first circulated at The Travel Convention in Gran Canaria... Read more »
That Peluso goodbye letter in full
by Kevin MayThere probably hasn't been a day like it before - when the global CEOs from two of the biggest online travel agencies on the planet quit within hours of one another.Steve Barnhart (Orbitz) and Michelle Peluso (Travelocity) may even have worked... Read more »
Good news day masks a bad news day - cost cuts of $45M
by Kevin MayBuried, understandably, at the bottom of the Orbitz announcement this morning about its new CEO, Barney Harford, are a very worrying few lines for anyone who works at any of the Orbitz brands."In addition to its leadership transition, Orbitz... Read more »
TV shows can inspire all kinds of holidays - so be clever online
by Kevin MayWhich? magazine, via the Telegraph, says the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing show is so popular that it has fuelled a rise in dancing holidays.Now for some of us the idea of going on holiday to learn the quickstep sounds about as enticing as a... Read more »
Tripadvisor features in a lot of private predictions
by Kevin MaySo our Predictions 2009 article was a rather nice collection of views from across the travel sector (thanks to those who contributed).Now, as one would expect, we had a fair bit of correspondence and conversations following its publication which... Read more »
Xotels is going on Netvibes with a useful Resource Center.
by claudeXotels professional team is going on Netvibes and are in process to build a nice Resource Center for our hotels friends and partners. They have compiled RSS feeds from major news channels, industry news sites and blogs as well as SEO &... Read more »
Prosit Neujahr & Was gibt es Neues in 2009?
by KarinSchmollgruberHier ist in den letzten Wochen wenig passiert. Doch die Ruhe täuscht. Im Hintergrund habe ich eifrig an der Umsetzung meines lange gehegten Traumes gearbeitet. Und nun ist es endlich so weit: Am 13.1.2009 startet der5-Minuten-Impuls für... Read more »
