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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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China has become a major global market for travel and tourism, and the country's online travel market - while still relatively young - is growing at a torrid pace. PhoCusWright's China Online Travel Overview Fifth Edition: The Giant Has Awoken provides comprehensive sizing and analysis of the country's online and total travel markets by segment and channel.
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Indonesia is home to a relatively young but rapidly accelerating travel and tourism industry. This Spotlight presents a snapshot of Indonesia's dynamic travel market, including the incidence of travel, analysis of travel components, leading suppliers, online versus offline channels, social media, mobile and more.
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PhoCusWright's India Consumer Travel Report provides a complete picture of the new Indian traveler: who are they, how they travel, how they shop, and what they want.
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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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Personalization is about delivering the right content to the right traveler at the right time, and getting it right requires leveraging company data about the customer – demographics, lifestyle information, travel and spend history, and personal preferences.
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Competition for a share of the location-based services market is intense, and success requires travel companies to combine location with context and relevance – no easy task. This article offers practical recommendations for marketers on how to overcome the challenges posed by LBS and harness its power effectively.
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Mobile Hits the Mainstream: Technology and Industry Trends studies the trends shaping mobile travel worldwide, tracking mobile device adoption in key global markets. The report highlights emerging mobile technologies, identifying strategic opportunities for suppliers, intermediaries and corporate travel organizations. In addition, the research provides a closer view of the U.S. mobile travel market, sizing the U.S. mobile leisure/unmanaged business travel market through 2013.
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The convergence of core technologies has led to new capabilities that impact the travel distribution value chain (TDVC). This Analysis discusses technology convergence in telephones, mobile computing, and location-based services, and explores new technology that travelers can leverage at every stage of the TDVC.
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Social networks and the mobile Internet have begun to exert a strong influence on how consumers plan, purchase and experience their leisure travel. PhoCusWright's Traveler Technology Survey 2011 delivers the insights needed to stay on top of these dynamic travel technology trends.
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