30 Sep 2001
Royal Mail research has revealed that holiday companies lose out on
business opportunities through lack of communication. Sixty per cent of
holiday-makers questioned said they are never contacted by their travel
company post-holiday.
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09 Feb 2001
| by MediaWeek
New travel sites launch...The rival online networks of The Telegraph and The Guardian have both launched new travel sites. Guardian Unlimited Travel launches officially on Friday, February 16, with Hollinger Telegraph New Media's site, travel.telegraph.co.uk launching the following Monday. The HTNM offer replaces Planet ...
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 ...
31 Mar 2001
Travel website thomas cook.com is offering visitors to the site a pounds
5 gift voucher, redeemable at online bookshop amazon.com, in a promotion
designed to drive site traffic and forge long ...
awareness with holiday buyers of the range of travel and holiday
products available on the site ...
07 Nov 2001
Online Travel Corporation has acquired niche travel network If You
Travel in a share deal worth 230,000. The network, which includes
ifyouski.com, ifyougolf.com, ifyoutravel.com, ifyoudive.com and
ifyouexplore.com, will still operate the brands independently, but only
seven of the 25 staff will remain ...
14 Feb 2001
Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph.co.uk have gone head-to-head in the online travel market...Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph.co.uk have gone head-to-head in the online travel market with the launch of their travel sites.
The Guardian has launched Guardian.co.uk/travel, the first of three sites planned this year. It will be followed by politics and sports sites. The travel site ...
14 Dec 2001
| by MediaWeek
Associated plans new travel website...Associated New Media is launching a new website, This is Travel , despite the problems ...
be a research tool offering independent travel advice and information. As well as drawing on the resources of the Daily Mail , The Mail on Sunday , Evening Standard and Metro , This is Travel ...
22 Jan 2001
| by Lisa Simmons
World Travel Holdings (WTH) has acquired US-based Travac Tours and Charters....WTH, the company behind UK-based consumer travel site WorldTravelDirect.com, will gain a direct ...
flights to travel agents through its flight consolidator business and owns US consumer travel site www ...
were to the travel trade.
World Travel Direct already has a presence in the US with its business ...
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 ...
31 Jan 2001
The Thomson Travel Group has launched an interactive TV version of its just.co.uk site on Telewest...The Thomson Travel Group has launched an interactive TV version of its just.co.uk site on Telewest s digital TV platform. Developed by e-business consultancy Nucleus, the web site and updated content was repurposed for the iTV platform.
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