Articles tagged “online bookings”

Online Travel

MakeMyTrip Introduces Exclusive Mumbai-Bhutan Charter Services – India Report

MakeMyTrip has been witnessing a robust increase in Indian travelers' interest in Bhutan. This service aims to capture that opportunity.

Bulbul Dhawan | 2 weeks ago

MakeMyTrip Introduces Exclusive Mumbai-Bhutan Charter Services – India Report

Tour Operators

TourRadar Adds 2 Partners for Organized Adventure Tours

Some experiences can take place in a day. Others need at least a week. It requires complex travel planning, but the adventure far outweighs these challenges, which is why TourRadar wants to extend its travel product reach to more travel companies, especially online travel agencies.

Selene Brophy | 7 months ago

TourRadar Adds 2 Partners for Organized Adventure Tours

Travel Technology

These Innovators Are Bringing Trains and Buses Into the 21st Century

Travelers worldwide want to purchase and manage ground transport tickets digitally, same as they typically can for flights and hotels. The industry is finally starting to respond.

Justin Dawes | 11 months ago

These Innovators Are Bringing Trains and Buses Into the 21st Century

Online Travel

Why Trip.Com Thought It Needed a Generative AI Chatbot

Generative AI is far from making a considerable impact in the way travel bookings are made, but Trip.com sees the potential and is starting the hard work now.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Why Trip.Com Thought It Needed a Generative AI Chatbot

Online Travel

Airbnb and Booking: 12 Takeaways From Their Annual Financial Reports

Airbnb went deep while Booking Holdings went wide in terms of product development in 2021. Airbnb assuredly will get back to broadening its product line, if not in 2022, then later.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Airbnb and Booking: 12 Takeaways From Their Annual Financial Reports

Online Travel

Jumia IPO Highlights Africa’s Shifting Online Travel Ecosystem

Jumia is one of a few companies that deserve credit for building nascent online travel businesses in several African markets. But as Google and other tech platforms gain a continent-wide presence, they may use their pervasiveness to play kingmakers in online travel.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Jumia IPO Highlights Africa’s Shifting Online Travel Ecosystem

Cruises

TripAdvisor Launches Cruise Metasearch to Tap Into a New Revenue Stream

TripAdvisor is smart to try to tap the ad budgets of cruise lines and online travel agencies with a relevant new price-comparison search tool. But many first-time cruisers may feel too overwhelmed by all of the review content given all of the complexity in booking a cruise.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

TripAdvisor Launches Cruise Metasearch to Tap Into a New Revenue Stream

Online Travel

Trivago Courts Booking’s Wrath in Move to Boost Repeat Customers

Uh-oh. Trivago changed its user interface again. Last time it did this, it referred fewer customers to some advertisers and prompted Booking Holdings to pull back from advertising on it. Trivago is betting that Booking won't retaliate for this new effort. Daring!

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Trivago Courts Booking’s Wrath in Move to Boost Repeat Customers

Online Travel

What Zuji’s Suspension for Missed Payments Means for Asia’s Online Travel Pioneers

All is not well with Zuji, a pioneer in the online travel space in Asia-Pacific. An ownership that is more adept at aviation than running an OTA may be an issue, but it’s clear the entry of global OTAs flush with marketing wherewithal and expertise is making it difficult for the pioneers to compete.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

What Zuji’s Suspension for Missed Payments Means for Asia’s Online Travel Pioneers
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Online Travel

A Brief Look at the Online Behavior of Travel Consumers

As the travel industry becomes increasingly infatuated with personalization, it’s become all too clear that consumers are not one-dimensional beings. Smart marketing leaders are diving deeper than surface-level segmentation of their customer-base, peeling back layer after layer to reveal the complex nature of the modern consumer.

Epsilon + Skift | 7 years ago

A Brief Look at the Online Behavior of Travel Consumers