Despite the economic problems, Google is reporting that overall travel queries have increased by 12% year-on-year to date and 11.2% for the week beginning May 21. Searches for car-hire and hotels are attracting the strongest growth in search volumes.
Read more in Travolution
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Google Travel Search Volumes Rise Despite Recession
Friday, 5 June 2009
Microsoft Launches New Search Engine with Enhanced Flight Search Tools
On Monday, June 1st, Microsoft launched its new search engine named Bing. While Bing is unlikely to take much market share from Google it does offer some innovative new tools and applications that will be of interest to the travel trade.
Microsoft has integrated the Farecast travel search engine which it purchased back in 2008 into Bing. Bing Travel now enables users to find low price flights and then compare the results against many of the top travel sites like Expedia, Cheapflights, Priceline etc.
Read more in Tech Fragments
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
New Internet Video Marketing Service For The Holiday Rental Sector
Turismotec Ltd (http://www.turismotec.com/) have announced the launch of a new low-cost internet marketing service called VillaTube, designed specifically for holiday rental property owners and agents.
VillaTube enables holiday rental owners and agents to access the huge and lucrative online video market through YouTube and the other major video portals such as Google Video, Yahoo Video, AOL Video, Myspace Video and many others.
Mark Scriven, MD of Turismotec, said "In the current economic climate it's crucial that holiday rental agencies and property owners find new and innovative ways of generating additional bookings. Our VillaTube service is designed specifically to enable holiday rental agencies and owners to put their properties in front of thousands of potential new customers through YouTube and the other major online video portals."
He continues "YouTube is now the 2nd biggest search engine in the world after Google and millions of video searches are made every day. VillaTube will enable any agency or property owner to access this fast growing and highly lucrative market."
VillaTube works by uploading and promoting a high quality video slide show to the main video portals like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, AOL Video and MySpace Video as well as the main travel video portals such as Travelistic, TripFilms and Holiday Rental TV.
The company has produced a brochure PDF for VillaTube at http://www.turismotec.com/VillaTube-Presentation.pdf.
VillaTube enables holiday rental owners and agents to access the huge and lucrative online video market through YouTube and the other major video portals such as Google Video, Yahoo Video, AOL Video, Myspace Video and many others.
Mark Scriven, MD of Turismotec, said "In the current economic climate it's crucial that holiday rental agencies and property owners find new and innovative ways of generating additional bookings. Our VillaTube service is designed specifically to enable holiday rental agencies and owners to put their properties in front of thousands of potential new customers through YouTube and the other major online video portals."
He continues "YouTube is now the 2nd biggest search engine in the world after Google and millions of video searches are made every day. VillaTube will enable any agency or property owner to access this fast growing and highly lucrative market."
VillaTube works by uploading and promoting a high quality video slide show to the main video portals like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, AOL Video and MySpace Video as well as the main travel video portals such as Travelistic, TripFilms and Holiday Rental TV.
The company has produced a brochure PDF for VillaTube at http://www.turismotec.com/VillaTube-Presentation.pdf.
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