Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Qantas destroy’s tourism by grounding all flights

In a single statement Alan Joyce has managed to remind it’s shareholders they just approved his $5 million pay packet by destroying their investments…

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Concur buys TripIt

With the additional benefits offered via TripIT Pro and with 3 growing income streams it makes sense why Concur acquired them for upto $120 million

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Facebook Travel

Facebook Travel is coming but its too early to know if its going to be a mobile product, via a API or via Bing Travel

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Do Hotel sites get PPC?

So the travel industry has some of the thinest margins but why do they appear to be just buying traffic for the sake of it?

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European Vacations – When is the cheapest time to travel?

Everyone is starting to find out its now longer as easy as just a brief trek online will overwhelm even the most seasoned web person looking for a cheap holiday

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NRMA limits online insurance quotes

shows the reasons that I did not contact NRMA, my agency is based in the state of Queensland so I did not proceed with the quote process because Queensland was not an option….

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Travel can fail online without an Agent’s licence

Without travel insurance you have to depend on travel compensation fund, but you may not always be covered…

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Travel Agents don’t target cheap flights

Recently a leading UK travel site Flyglobespan.com went bust stranding thousands of passengers throughout Europe, which I would have assumed would have lead to a spike in search traffic for “cheap flights” but checking Google insights for search showed over the last 30 days a drop in the Travel category. With a monthly estimate in the [...]

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