TM Insider 179

The TravelMole Insider – Issue 179
ISSN 1474-2292
14 February 2002
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LATEST PRESS POSTINGS
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Sabre: Navigant Int is first UK customer for Corporate.Res
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REGULAR FEATURES
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LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS
1. Research says operators could face difficult summer
2. Hotels target internet sales with new platform
3. Reduction in business travel drags SAS into Q4 loss
4. Carnival piles pressure on P&O Princess
5. Worldwide Independent Travel Network appoints new CEO
6. Seminar addresses IT revolution on tourism and hospitality
7. Team SA completes package deal for UK travellers

(Yesterday’s TravelMole News Flash):
8. Thousands more jobs to be axed at BA
9. BA cuts Fresh Approach payments

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LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS
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1. Research says operators could face difficult summer
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British consumers are set to give the package holiday industry
its ‘roughest ride yet’ according to research by strategy
consulting firm Latitude.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/71915

2. Hotels target internet sales with new platform
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Five leading hotel chains have joined forces with technology
company Pegasus Solutions to create Hotel Distribution System
(HDS), a new venture that will market hotel rooms over the
internet through multiple online sites.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/71924

3. Reduction in business travel drags SAS into Q4 loss
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SAS, the Scandinavian carrier, is blaming reduced business class
traffic on its sharp fall into losses in the fourth-quarter.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/72075

4. Carnival piles pressure on P&O Princess
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Carnival claims that over a quarter of P&O Princess shareholders
have confirmed that they want extra time to consider the
company’s merger options.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/71877

5. Worldwide Independent Travel Network appoints new CEO
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Neil Armorgie has been appointed chief executive officer of the
Worldwide Independent Travel Network.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/71994

6. Seminar addresses IT revolution on tourism and hospitality
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On 25th and 26th March, The University of Surrey is organising a
seminar on ‘How Information Communication Technologies
Revolutise the future for the Tourism, Travel And Hospitality
Industries’.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/72050

7. Team SA completes package deal for UK travellers
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Team SA – South African Tourism, Southern Africa Tourism
Services Association, the Tourism Business Council of South
Africa and South African Airways – has unveiled a holiday
package, ‘Opportunity SA’, which will be marketed to travellers
in the UK later this month.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/72167

8. Thousands more jobs to be axed at BA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
British Airways is to axe a further 5,800 jobs in addition to
the 7,200 it has already announced in a bid to return to
profitability.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/72025

9. BA cuts Fresh Approach payments
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British Airways is to cut its Fresh Approach payment levels for
European and domestic flights and to make it cheaper for
customers to book those tickets on the internet than with
agents.
http://www.travelmole.com/item/72005

REGULAR FEATURES
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Site of the Week: Lunnpoly.com
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TravelMole’s reviewer Adrian Mann says: “One of the UK’s best-
known travel brands. It’s a bold, simple design style, and
superficially looks better in this incarnation than it has
before…[However]It has the feel of a site that’s been ‘got at’
by a committee who wanted to make sure absolutely everyone got
their way, with the legal department having the final say.”
Read his full review:
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