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Eastern Europe's travel market is a sleeping giant just beginning to wake up. The market experienced healthy growth in 2010 and 2011, and while options and demand for travel are improving, cultural barriers and the European debt crisis still hinder development. PhoCusWright's Eastern Europe Online Travel Overview sizes the total and online leisure and unmanaged business travel markets in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and the Czech Republic. The report also compares trends across product segments, provides analysis of the primary online booking channels, and highlights the key players influencing the market.
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Despite rising oil prices and airfares, aggregate gross bookings of the three public U.S. OTAs – Expedia, Orbitz and Priceline – made notable increases in 1Q12. However, near-term headwinds lie in wait.
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Intensified competitive pressures in a dynamic marketplace, combined with changing consumer behavior, continue to shape European tour operator strategies – especially with regard to technology. This article examines recent travel technology trends driven by the German divisions of major pan-European tour operators.
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Heads up, travel companies: 2012's host of technology trends – including new developments in social e-commerce, business intelligence and content fragmentation – will have huge effects on the future of travel distribution.
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Delivering relevant content may be the most important thing a supplier can do to convert lookers into bookers – and relevance requires massive amounts of data. This article provides the nitty-gritty on three statistical methods that correlate travel variables, and examines how they work.
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Despite the economic difficulties of 4Q11 – rising fuel prices and airfares, a stronger U.S. dollar, and ongoing financial drama in Europe – online travel agencies delivered mostly strong performances, with solid growth in international markets. The outlook for 2012 is exciting but uneven, with OTAs fighting hard for U.S. share and making gains in Europe.
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While some online travel agencies in Europe have thrived on the basis of local language content, specialized market knowledge and well-established supplier relationships, many now face harsh realities as the marketplace matures. This Data Point explores a range of factors that are driving change in the European OTA space, including Google's expected entrance into the price-shopping arena, increasing supplier-direct bookings and intensifying M&A activity that will make it tough for smaller, local OTAs to stay afloat.
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Aggregate total gross bookings for the three public U.S online travel agencies (OTAs) - Expedia, Orbitz and Priceline grew in 3Q11. However, macro conditions are becoming convoluted - slowing sales constrained domestic gross bookings, but overseas business remains resilient, particularly in Europe, where economic woes loom large.
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Data, analysis and insight into the U.K. travel industry, with projections of future performance trends through 2013. The report covers U.K. market dynamics, and contains detailed information on individual segments such as air, hotel, car rental, rail, tour operators and online travel agencies.
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Data, analysis and insight into the Spanish travel industry, with projections of future performance trends through 2013. The report covers Spanish market dynamics, and contains detailed information on individual segments such as air, hotel, car rental, rail, tour operators and online travel agencies.
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