Today’s blog post is the continuation of our posting published on July 21, 2009 Assuming that the BVI micro-niche does in fact appeal to us from a product perspective, our next step in determining if this niche is worth investing in entails two follow-on tasks: assessing the market size and competitive intensity, and identifying which […]
Tag Archives: Hotel Aggregators
Island Vacations Represent Great Travel Niches for Travel Affiliates – Part 2
July 22, 2009 – 11:30 am
Why Hostels Are a Good Play for Travel Affiliates: Follow-Up
July 1, 2009 – 10:48 am
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 […]
Why Hostels Are a Good Play for Travel Affiliates
June 26, 2009 – 3:33 pm
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, […]
Airlines ‘Open Kimonos’ for Airline Consolidators and Travel Affiliates
June 5, 2009 – 1:49 pm
Long a secretive and shady niche in the global travel industry, the shroud of mystery surrounding airline consolidators and the airlines that work with them is rapidly lifting. Once loathe to publicly revealing their name in conjunction with their distribution partners in this opaque channel, airlines are now ‘opening their kimonos’, and loudly broadcasting their […]