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Weekly Blog Musings and Travel Affiliate News Recap

This week’s musings, reflections and observations about travel affiliate marketing… 1. I think that rail travel represents a fairly solid travel affiliate opportunity, particularly for European travel affiliates.  Unlike the US, rail in Europe has always enjoyed a strong position within the European inter-modal travel/transportation system; that position continues to grow in both in terms […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations about travel affiliate marketing… 1. I was thinking recently about the short- to medium-term fate of the US dollar and its subsequent impact on the travel and travel affiliate industries, particularly in light of the recent run-up in the price of oil, the seemingly bottomless pit that is referred […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations about travel affiliate marketing… 1. I think it’s great that more and more executives in travel companies up and down the travel value chain are jumping head-first onto the ancillary revenue bandwagon…for many companies, this is a ‘no brainer’ as selling ancillary revenue sometimes is the difference between making […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations about travel affiliate marketing… 1. I think there is a gem of a finding for travel affiliates in Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, one of the world’s leading professional services firms that specializes in hotel real estate, just released analysis of the U.S. lodging industry. In their FocusOn: Seven Winners […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations about travel affiliate marketing… 1. I think that the travel companies that underwrite the cost of primary market research, customized surveys and technical studies about the travel industry and subsequently share the results with the rest of the travel industry should be universally lauded for their efforts and largesse.  […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations… 1. Despite the profundity of bad news about the travel industry, I continue to think that the industry’s financial woes present unprecedented opportunities for the travel affiliate channel to establish itself as a strong and valuable partner for travel suppliers worldwide (see item number 5 in my May 11th […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations… 1. I think Cruises Inc’s aggressive push to recruit new travel agents from among the ranks of Generation X and Generation Y travelers is a much-needed (and long overdue) wake-up call to the cruise industry.  According to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the average age of today’s North […]

This week’s musings, reflections and observations… 1.  I think that there is a lot of venture capital money chasing too many travel 2.0 start-ups.   In addition to travel deals discovery search engine voyig.com (which TravelDividends profiled in our May 18th blog post), add Nextstop.com, Dopplr.com, Tripsay.com, Plazes.com and OffbeatGuides.com to the list of the ‘next […]

1. I think that yesterday’s official launch of  Wolfram/Alpha, the self described “computational knowledge engine” for the Web, could have a tremendous effect on how consumers access information about – and eventually book – travel services.  I also think that there is a chance that this could turn out to be as big a seminal […]

1. I ran across some stunning statistics in Mobile in Travel 2009, a recent white paper on the impact of mobile on the travel industry… 3.3 billion people actively us SMS; that’s over twice as many people as the 1.4 billion people that use the Internet 2.5 times as many people send a text message […]