Posted by admin on March 4th, 2011
Travelers in the area can begin the countdown until the fourth of July, but not because of the fireworks.
Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2011
Whether killing time or scrambling to find last-minute souvenirs, most of us are at one time or another saved by airport shopping.
Posted by admin on February 11th, 2011
as fuel costs rise, so does airfare. but flexibility and planning ahead can save money, experts say. STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Posted by admin on February 7th, 2011
Now that the airlines are making cheap flights available, Auckland Semper Jr. has created a centralized location where people can find all the information they will need to get the best deals available fast and easy. when anyone is looking for the cheapest last minute flights, they can learn the steps to take in order to take advantage of the great savings available. The Cheap Flights Resources website provides all of the information travelers will need for planning their holiday and saving money on flight costs without making huge changes to travel plans.
Posted by admin on February 7th, 2011
MADISON, Wis. — Madison and Milwaukee are starting to get flights out of their airports, but continued problems in Chicago are still causing problems for travelers in Wisconsin after this week’s blizzard.the website at the Dane County Regional Airport shows almost all flights getting out of the airport, except for flights bound for Chicago. This is a big change from Wednesday, where almost no flights made it out of the airport.General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, which was closed for much of the day Wednesday, is also starting to return to normal. more than half of the scheduled flights there are getting off the runways.however, both airports in Chicago still have a major bottleneck. almost no flights are getting out of O
Posted by admin on January 29th, 2011
Like its competitors, Expedia makes money by charging a commission (in the form of a booking/processing fee) on every transaction or by purchasing travel inventory (air tickets, hotel stays, etc.) from travel suppliers in bulk at discounted prices and selling them to consumers at a premium. Expedia also offers advertising placement on its websites and earns revenue on a per-click or per-impression basis. We’ve launched coverage on Expedia with a $38.57 price estimate, a significant premium (roughly 45%) to market price. We estimate that hotel bookings constitute 57% of Expedia’s stock value, while air ticket bookings and car rentals & cruises contribute 10% and 6% respectively. what caught our attention in the analysis is the significance of advertising revenues to Expedia’s stock value. We estimate that advertising on Expedia’s TripAdvisor.com website, which gathers and publishes user-generated content such as hotel reviews that travelers use for research prior to making bookings, constitutes over 22% of the company’s stock value. Advertising placements on Expedia.com and Hotels.com generate an incremental 3%. We currently forecast that monthly page views per visitor on Tripadvisor.com will improve slightly in the years ahead, following a significant drop-off between 2009 and 2010 as the economic recession stifled the vacation market. The site should benefit as a growing user database and content expansion drives greater user engagement. However, this metric faces looming pressure from social networking platforms. while TripAdvisor is currently the number one online travel community in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it implicitly competes with large social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter which also offer a forum for users to discuss travel plans and exchange reviews. Hence, to grow (or even maintain) its substantial advertising revenues, Expedia must sustain its market position in the face of a widespread consumer shift toward one-stop social networks. Drag the trend line in the modifiable chart above to see the impact of various Tripadvisor.com page views per visitor scenarios on Expedia’s stock value. See our full analysis of Expedia’s stock here. like our charts? Embed them in your own posts using the Trefis WordPress Plugin.
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Posted by admin on January 29th, 2011
Published: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 11:25 AM Updated: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 11:25 AM
NEWARK — Heavy snow has forced hundreds of cancellations at the new York City area’s three major airports — but all three are now handling flights.
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2011
many South Florida hotels were more full in 2010 than the previous year, though hoteliers often sacrificed high prices to get travelers in the door.
Posted by admin on January 14th, 2011
With online travel sites battling with some airlines, where does that leave travelers shopping for flights online? The simple answer is that they’re going to have to do more digging.
Posted by admin on December 31st, 2010
Travelers are lashing out at airlines for poor customer service after this week
