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Business travel services companies can deliver a wealth of benefits including; saving you money on bookings, and added value through additional services and saving time. If you’re looking to change the company you use for corporate travel, or are thinking of hiring a business travel services provider for the first time, below are some useful questions [...]  Thomas Cook has recently begun talks with banking institutions so that it can increase the amount it is borrowing as the cash-strapped company tries to survive the Christmas season. On Tuesday morning shares in the company dropped by 50% after an announcement that the company is trading at significantly reduced in the last few months. [...] An increase in bookings for holidays to Cape Verde has been reported by Voyage Travel Direct, and the months proving most popular are in the Autumn and Winter. The surge in popularity of Cape Verde is very significant, and holidays to the islands have accounted for 7% of all of the bookings made through Voyage [...] A new iPad app has been launched by eBookers an online travel agent to inspire travelers that use social media. It is the first social media guide the eBookers Explorer is an app that is destination focused with the feeling of a magazine that is aimed at those that want the best of somewhere using [...] Virgin Atlantic has unveiled its new website that is exclusively travel agents. Their new site, www.vsflyinghub.com, offers lots of information on the policies of the airline, as well as other products and the destination they fly to. There will also be special offers and competition just for travel agents to take advantage of and enter. The [...] Western & Oriental, a luxury holiday group, after being shown interest from many other companies, is finally selling the tour part of its business. The company released a statement indicating that five offers have been made, which corresponds to “the strategic insight of the former board.” Getting rid of the tour operations will aid in fixing [...] TUI, which is Europe’s biggest travel operator, and the only one on the FTSE 100, has reported that it is not worried about current downtrends in the market and bad weather. Stating that the company always deals with these sorts of problems well, representatives touted the fact that, apart from losses due to the volcanic [...] Richard Carrick has 35 years of experience in the travel industry, most recently as CEO of Hoseasons, the U.K.’s leading holiday travel business. He left that position when Hoseasons was sold to Wyndham Worldwide in March of this year, and speaking at the 2010 Aito Conference in Brussels this past weekend, he had some advice [...] When Google announced in July that it was buying ITA Software for 700 million dollars, there were mixed reactions from the agencies that would be directly affected, and quite a bit of opposition to the sale. ITA specializes in providing information from many different airlines, including flight times and ticket prices, using a tool called QPX [...] Gill’s, the UK cruise giant goes viral this week with a ‘Guess the route of the mystery ship’ competition on Facebook. In a move to connect with a greater share of Facebook users, the popular cruise agent asks entrants to guess the order in which a selection of world ports are to be visited by [...] |
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