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Mottershead to speak at ABTA Travel Convention
Phil Davies - Jun 10, 2024
Former TUI UK managing director and now TravelZest chief executive Chris Mottershead is to run a session at the ABTA Travel…
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Hoverspeed backs abolition of cross-border shopping limits
Phil Davies - Jun 10, 2024
Hoverspeed has welcomed moves to abolish guidelines on the levels of alcohol and tobacco people can bring back to the…
Thomas Cook AG expects first profit in four years
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Thomas Cook expects to return to profit in 2005 for the first time in four years. The German-owned travel group…
Airports ‘named and shamed’ for high forex costs
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Holidaymakers could lose almost £9 for every £100 they exchange for foreign currency depending on which airport they use, a…
Kuoni signs Galileo GDS deal
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Kuoni has signed a five-year global distribution deal with Galileo. The agreement with the Cendant-owned GDS will see Galileo introduced across the…
Inbound tourism up by 10%
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Overseas visitors to the UK rose by 10% to 28.4 million in the year to April. Visits abroad by UK…
Travel firms ‘miss out’ by slow reaction to events
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Travel companies are missing out by failing to react to popular world events such as football finals. Research by online…
Easyjet spends £18K/day on Google
Ginny McGrath - Jun 09, 2024
The importance of search engine optimisation and advertising was demonstrated at this week’s EyeForTravel Summit. Opening the debate on…
Blogging is next big thing
Ginny McGrath - Jun 09, 2024
Consumers will increasingly make decisions about travel according to the recommendations of strangers on the web. This was the…
Amadeus shakes-up business divisions
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
Amadeus has undergone a reorganisation consolidating its non-air hospitality and leisure operations under two divisions. The GDS's distribution and technology services have…
Business-only transatlantic airline secures funding
Phil Davies - Jun 09, 2024
A start-up single premium class transatlantic airline has secured $185 million to help fund a launch this autumn. The carrier…
Agents still key say industry giants
Ginny McGrath - Jun 08, 2024
A seminar headlined by the online giants of the travel industry at this week’s EyeForTravel summit, bucked the usual trend…
