Earlier this week we held a very illuminating round table discussion on the travel industry online at UKFast’s offices in City Tower Manchester. Bringing in experts from around the UK, we had: Joel Brandon Bravo, UK MD of TravelZoo Richard Nash, business director at CSI Media James Brooke, MD of Rooster Brian Povey, tourism project [...]

Within the same week, UK travel agent Thomson announces its growing success online and one of the Internet stalwarts Expedia suffers a drastic fall in shares as first quarter results disappoint. The sector has been very interesting to watch online and I wonder if we are now experiencing the fight back that has been muted [...]

After Google’s Orion project yesterday, it’s good to hear Yahoo promoting a new innovation today. Although, Yahoo’s up coming travel search does not provide new technologies, making it less ‘innovation’ and more ‘filing system’ for its current travel capabilities scattered across its portal. Yahoo aims to up the anti on established online travel agents by [...]

I’m interested in people’s views on how the increasing range of tlds affects business and consumers online. In particular there’s .travel, which attempts to create an online directory incorporating millions of travel websites. As an industry, travel and tourism is a world leader with around 12% of the global market. Online, travel is also a [...]