------------------------------------------------- Tourism and Travel Distribution: the Travel Agent’s Perspective By Dr Marion Bennett and Dr Dimitrios Buhalis‚ Centre for eTourism Research (CeTR)‚ School of Management‚ University of Surrey‚ Guildford Jan 2003 Summary The Internet has revolutionised the tourism industry and has generated a number of challenges and opportunities for all players. For travel agents‚ in particular‚ the Internet is changing the industry structure and consumer behaviour
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STA Travel‚ the largest student travel agency in the world‚ needs to evaluate whether or not the company should establish a presence in Second Life‚ a growing role-playing game that many companies began to invest in around the world. STA Travel has the choice to develop a virtual marketing presence on the computer simulated virtual world of Second Life. The website would include information about destinations and help to promote events related to the real-world destinations that users will eventually
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think Americans spend on travel and leisure activities? Well‚ according to the U.S. Travel Association “the U.S. averaged $2.7 billion a day‚ $113.1 million an hour‚ $1.9 million a minute and $31‚400 a second” (U.S. Travel Association). It is no wonder then that Travel and Leisure digital magazine is so popular. But how exactly do they make people spend so much of their hard-earned money on travel? Travel and Leisure is able to capture the attention of thousands of travel enthusiast by including vibrant
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1. The Travel Market can be segmented into 3 segments: Luxury travellers‚ Adventurers and Budget travellers. These segments are identified by demographics like age and income‚ psychological factors like personality‚ and benefits sought like needs and product features. Luxury travellers are usually older or middle-aged consumers who are already financially prosperous and look for relaxation and rejuvenation from their stressful positions. They can also be retirees. Luxury travellers will be willing
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Affiliate members report published by unwto and wyse travel confederation in cooperation with AM Reports | VOLUME TWO The power of youth travel . y t i l i b a n o ai C y t i l i b i s n o p s e R e o i ng t a c u d E e c a e P n o i u l vat o V y t i s r e v i D n o i t i ova d n a t s r e d n U l a r u t l u E r C l a r u t l u C y t i l i b a n i C usta y t i l i b i s n o p s e R e g o i t an a c u d E e c a e P n o u l o rvati V y t i s r e v i D n o i t a v o d n n a t s r e d n U l a
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The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his opinion on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentions a few of his past experiences and his feelings and emotions based on them. Based on this article‚ we are able extract that traveling is not just the matter of going somewhere other than your home and coming back the same person. It is somehow a little more than that as it affects us in ways unexplainable. An interesting point brought
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Case Study Strategic management Evaluation II AIR DECCAN: REVOLUTIONISING THE INDIAN SKIES Air Travel in India For decades‚ air travel in India was meant for the most elite and powerful in society. An overwhelming majority of travellers who could not afford the prohibitive air travel fares‚ preferred to journey on trains and buses. The revolutionizing effects of liberalization swept India with dynamic changes in the aviation sector. From being a service that few could afford‚ the sector
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BUS 558 Business Travel Improvement May 22‚ 2010 Business Scope Currently‚ our organization does not utilize the internet to make purchases for business travel pertaining to lodging‚ airfare‚ and transportation (car rentals). Our organization currently uses travel agents to facilitate this‚ which is very costly. By implementing a project to replace the travel agency with utilization of internet resources‚ we can improve our existing process of business travel requests‚ implement
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2013 Travel industry Cauchies Christophe About the importance of the travel industry in the economy The travel industry is one of the biggest industries worldwide. Figure 1 shows the total –direct and indirect - contribution of the travel and tourism to the growth in each area of the world. Surprisingly more than 5% of the Asian growth is due to this industry. It represents 3% of the worldwide growth. Around 9% of the global GDP are – from one way or another – due to travel & tourism
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Is time travel a possibility? According to Scientific research‚ time travel is more of an opinionated question. Some research proves that there are possibilities of time travel and others say that it is impossible. In my opinion‚ I think it is possible with right research and advanced technology for time travel to be possible. If time travel is invented‚ and someone did come back in time from the future‚ and change things without making themselves widely known as time travelers
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