01 Dec 2006
| by by Amy Dry
LONDON - IPC-owned magazine TVTimes has launched a travel website dedicated to providing users...'s travel section. It contains ideas for UK and overseas holidays, information on buying homes or moving overseas, plus travel tips from a host of celebrity writers. There is also a regular newsletter offering travel ideas and news from leading travel TV shows.
Rich Coles, publisher of TV Times, said: "TVTimes ...
01 Feb 2001
| by Louise Banbury
Priceline.com has revamped its online travel service in an effort to improve its offering and has...LONDON (Brand Republic) - Priceline.com has revamped its online travel service in an effort to improve its offering and has appointed a special advisor for its travel products.
The company, which ...
.com and contributing editor to Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel Magazine, as a special adviser.
The enhancements ...
12 Jan 2009
| by Jacquie Bowser
Aldi Travel, which launched this week, offers consumers holiday packages to destinations including Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece and Portugal, among others. The chain will offer around six ...
Aldi's website . Aldi Travel also offers Supplier Failure Cover (SFC) within the price, meaning ...
26 Jul 2000
A former travel agent has set up a website, holidaycomplaint.com, where people can post complaints...LONDON (Brand Republic) - A former travel agent has set up a website, holidaycomplaint.com, where people can post complaints about travel companies.
The website is publishing consumers’ holiday horror stories about food poisoning, shabby hotels and poor service, so that other travellers can check out ...
08 Aug 2000
Travel agents must now disclose ownership links with the big tour operators, following a ruling...LONDON (Brand Republic) – Travel agents must now disclose ownership links with the big tour ...
and on promotional material. Chains involved include: Thomson Travel Group, which trades as Lunn Poly; Thomas Cook ...
the Office of Fair Trading launched an inquiry into competition in the travel industry. Last year, travel ...
23 Jan 2012
| by Liz Ross Martyn
Sixty eight percent of business travelers use their personal credit card while shopping...be the pleasure of having someone more travel arrangement-savvy than you in charge of your travel arrangements ...
of the Heathrow Express, you would receive a carefully fashioned laminated travel itinerary timed to perfection.
This travel arrangement angel's missive would send you from door to Heathrow Express, to Heathrow, to gate ...
01 Aug 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
LONDON - Marketing Direction Research has acquired two media and travel research firms European...Set up over 30 years ago EDR specialises in consumer air travel research, media research for business travellers and research into the jewellery market.
The continuous surveys offered by EDR and IATS will help MDR to capitalise on its own experience in the media and travel sectors, which stretches ...
18 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Virgin Flightstore, the online booking service for the travel industry, is using a...research that showed that the majority of independent travel agents think that Virgin Flightstore only ...
: "The independent travel agents are an important market to us. From the research, we felt it necessary ...
over an eight-week period in UK trade travel titles Travel Weekly, Travel Trade Gazette and Travel ...
18 Mar 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Multimap.com, the online mapping service, has retained its lead as the most-visited travel...to UK travel websites during the week ending March 18.
Its closest competitor was Go-Fly, the website ...
.66% of visits.
Online travel agent Expedia was in fifth place with 9.94% and Lastminute came sixth with 7.85% of visits to UK travel websites.
MyTravel was in seventh place with 5.67%, followed by British Airways ...
05 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - Regional newspaper group Johnston Press has acquired travel publishing company Days Out...The five-year-old Days Out business comprises a travel database and guidebook publishing company. The company claims to have built the UK's number one database of UK visitor attractions and special events.
Johnston did not reveal how much it paid for the company, which last year had a turnover of 250 ...