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, […]
Tag Archives: Travel Affiliates
Exploring Travel Affiliate Opportunities with Adventure Travel Tour Operators
June 23, 2009 – 11:40 am
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 […]
Travel Affiliates Should ‘Think Global, Book Local’
June 18, 2009 – 7:10 am
As the complexity, opaqueness and uncertainties associated with travel consumers booking air, hotel and car reservations online has all but been eliminated by the technological advances adopted by travel suppliers, OTAs and others, the thrill, anticipation and luster that used to surround the planning of vacations and holidays for most travelers has all but evaporated. […]
What’s Next? Five Strategic Questions for Travel Affiliate Industry Executives
June 4, 2009 – 1:17 pm
As everyone is abundantly aware, the global recession has hit the travel industry rather hard. Many economists and political leaders are suggesting the worst is over. However, it seems to TravelDividends that there is little clarity as to how quickly the major world economies will recover, or regardless of its length, how well the travel […]
Travel Affiliates Help Travel Suppliers Sell Distressed Inventory
May 26, 2009 – 3:49 pm
Question: What do British Airways, Avis Car Rental, Expedia, Carnival Cruise Line, Funjet, InterContinental Hotels, Occidental Hotels, and RIU Hotels and Resorts have in common? Answer: Each travel supplier has a significant amount of distressed inventory, and all look to their travel affiliate partners to help offload it. Read any travel industry newswire, visit any […]
Travel Deals Keep Americans Traveling This Summer
May 20, 2009 – 4:47 pm
Two of the most insightful psychographic surveys that profile the purchasing behavior of the U.S. travel consumer – The Harris Poll and the American Express Travel Agent Survey – came out this week within a day of each other. Although some of their conclusions differed, one key finding resonated in both surveys: the ability to […]
A Travel Niche That Isn’t Just ‘For The Dogs’
May 19, 2009 – 1:11 pm
Think that there’s not much affiliate money to be made by focusing on travel niches? If so, you may want to reconsider, as many travel niches can turn out to be ‘cash cows’ rather than ‘dogs’. Case in point: how about dog travel! In our general research about all things associated with the travel affiliate […]
Things I Think I Think – May 18, 2009
May 17, 2009 – 2:33 pm
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 […]
New Travel Affiliate Income Stream From Sandals Resorts
May 15, 2009 – 7:56 am
One of the staunchest supporters of travel affiliate marketing, Sandals Resorts, is set to launch a new luxury tour company, Island Routes. Although details about the program are still under wraps, if past history is any indication, Sandals’ new tour operator could bring in a strong and steady income stream to those travel affiliates that […]
Flickr – A Next-Generation Online Travel Affiliate Tool
May 13, 2009 – 8:28 am
Wouldn’t it be cool to have an online travel guidebook that is based on the collective wisdom of hundreds of thousands of like minded travelers? Well, researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University may have identified a way to do just that. With the aid of a supercomputer, these scientists analyzed some […]