The founders of hotels.com, Bob Deiner and David Litman, today announced the launch of getaroom.com, a new hotel booking site which aims to offer travel consumers the benefits of hotel discounts offered by opaque travel sites, but in a far more transparent process. Getaroom.com promises not only to be a boon for travel consumers, but […]
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For the travel industry, summertime connotes peak season, the time of year when many American and European travelers head off to take their main vacation. Whether it’s a leisurely stay at some beach-side resort for ‘sun & fun’, a traipse to take in the culture and history of some storied city or countryside in a […]
What might make the ‘perfect’ adventure travel affiliate partner site? Thousands of pre-packaged adventure and experiential tours to choose from? Exclusive content that can be customized into privately-guided tours? A personalization engine? Telephone access to real, live expert and non-biased adventure consultants and seasoned world travelers for advice? Low price guarantee? A travel affiliate program […]
Last Friday, June 26th, we published a feature story on the burgeoning hostel industry which included an overview of several of the major booking sources for hostels worldwide, and the opportunities this travel niche represents for travel affiliates. We received a lot of positive feedback about the post, as well several comments from our readers […]
If you are involved in the sport tourism travel affiliate industry, or are interested in doing so, you should consider booking travel reservations to Johannesburg, South Africa for July 5th – 9th, 2010. That’s when the World Sport Destination Expo, the first-ever international sports tourism conclave, is scheduled to be held immediately preceding the biggest […]
The hostel industry is celebrating its centennial this year, and unlike some other industry segments that have come and gone since the first hostel was opened in Burg Altena, Germany in 1909 (does anyone remember the days when people crossed the Atlantic on ocean liners and not airplanes?), not only have hostels managed to survive, […]
Please note that the following post is the concluding section of our two-part article. Undeterred by the bad publicity social media travel sites have been getting in the trade press – or perhaps emboldened by it – Virgin Atlantic airlines, arguably one of the savviest marketers in any industry, announced this week that they’ve launched […]
There has been a swirl of commentary and activity in the travel social media space, and much of it hasn’t been positive. If you’re involved in the travel affiliate marketing industry, either as a travel supplier or an affiliate, and you’ve followed the public debate about social media, you may be concerned as to what […]
In our June 19th blog post, TravelDividends provided an overview of the adventure travel industry, including estimates of market size, industry dynamics and trends and some of the evolving characteristics of the adventure travel consumer. In today’s follow-up to that article, we profile how travel affiliates can profit from two standard – yet vastly different […]
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 […]