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RSS travelTravel firms wrestle with move to online sales
News Travel companies moving onto the Web will face a complex and expensive ride, according to Bill Pickering, head of interactive travel at Thomas Cook. Pickering also claimed a Web-based... [21 Oct 1999]
Sixth-Largest U.S. Travel Agency Establishes Lasting Presence on Customer Desktops
White Paper Online travel agency Travelocity built a gadget for Windows Sidebar that is helping the company better connect with and serve its customers. Customers can use the gadget to search for travel from their... [18 Jan 2008]
Travel companies ban trademarks from Google
News Three of the UK's major travel firms have banned retailers that sell their holidays from using their trademarks on Google. First Choice, Thomas Cook and Thomson have all banned travel agents from using... [04 Mar 2005]
Travel shares travelling in the right direction
News Shares in UK travel site Ebookers jumped 15 per cent this morning after the company said it was close to breaking even in the third quarter. In the US online travel operator Expedia continued to bask in... [24 Oct 2001]
Travel and Procurement: The Convergence
White Paper According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost... [12 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains
Comment The people who designed these check-in systems never travel or fly anywhere, and they have therefore applied simple-minded conceptual thinking to a complex problem set. See my recent blog about my personal solution to... [24 Apr 2006]
Travel sites to be blown out the water by airline venture
News Nine airlines, including Air France, British Airways and KLM have colluded in the online travel portal, which looks set to give the likes of Expedia and Travelocity a rough ride - albeit a year after it was first announced. [21 Jun 2001]
Jamber Design Case Study: Travel Editions
White Paper Travel Editions existing website was bringing in business, without a doubt, they knew that it could be doing more. They had no facility for taking bookings online, which considering the way the online... [24 Dec 2008]
Travel Inn gets Unix-based intranet
News Services company, ITNet, has signed a £500,000 contract with Travel Inn for a Unix-based hotel reservations and management system. Susan Thomas, head of systems for Travel Inn said the Unix operating... [24 Nov 1999]
Travel Industry Innovator Widens Consumers' Horizons With Open Architecture
White Paper The largest processor of travel transactions in the world is Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. The company wanted to provide consumers with instant access to an ever-evolving array of... [24 Apr 2007]
Travel site takes early flight into profitability
News For the first time, more than a million customers purchased travel on Expedia sites in a single quarter - to the end of March 2001. Strong seasonal travel-buying and travelers' continued rapid adoption... [17 Apr 2001]
Travel data centre serves up speedy requests
Case Study Pegasus Solutions has found a cost-effective and energy-efficient way to handle the more than one billion travel and hotel transactions processed at its data centre each month. Pegasus handles back-end transactions for... [15 Aug 2006]
Travel portal in the wings from Euro-airlines
News A group of leading European airlines, headed by British Airways (BA), has confirmed they are to create a travel portal to sell tickets and holidays directly to the users. Air France, Alitalia, KLM and SwissAir are in the... [24 Feb 2000]
Travel dot-com bucks downturn
News US online hotel booking firm Hotels.com has got Martha Lane Fox squarely in its crosshairs as it bucks the worldwide crisis in the travel industry and the dot-com downturn to launching sites in the UK and across Europe. [16 Oct 2003]
Travel Company Expects 20 Per Cent Increase in Turnover With Customer-Based System
White Paper Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Brain Force, the company developed the Dynamics Travel solution by using Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Italy-based Uvet American Express wanted to strengthen its service to customers. [02 Apr 2008]
