Category Archives: Online travel agency
My Trip Quote makes bookings hassle free
I tend to repeat myself from time to time, so I apologize if I’m doing it again, but I love new innovative travel tools! I especially love innovative travel tools that change the way travel agents operate and more importantly how the public book with them. In general, changes of operating models and adoption of [...]
The future of offline travel agents is online
The internet has given the general public the tools to research, book, issue tickets and review their holidays from the comfort of their own home. In such a connected world, is there really a need for travel agents? I definitely think so, but I think we need to reassess the functions a travel agent performs [...]
The Opera House, Sydney’s next billboard
I love innovative marketing and I have great respect for the travel companies leveraging social media and mobile technology. I think some of the products we’re going to see released in the next six to eight months are going to put some serious distance between those willing to take risks on the trendy new gadgets [...]
Safety, the missing hotel ranking system
I was helping my wife plan a business trip to London and we were looking for a hotel. She wanted something trendy and in a safe area close to her office, but we realized we didn’t actually know the city all that well. Peoples opinions on the internet were all subjective and pretty much no [...]
Flight Centre rejects the prowess of online travel
In the Wednesday 26th of August edition of Travel weekly Graham Turner, managing director of Flight Centre, made the comment that, “There is some potential for growth [in Webjet] but I don’t think it will take significant amounts of revenue away from us”. That is very bold, considering how prolific the internet has been in [...]
Zuji drops booking fees, Expedia plays copycat
Zuji.com.au have rearranged the Australian OTA landscape by announcing that they will no longer be charging a booking fee for bookings made on their website. Expedia have also jumped on the bandwagon, offering no booking fees for 6 weeks but will drop the fees permanently if they reach over a million unique site visits during [...]
Social media attacks!