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: Travel Niches
Island Vacations Represent Great Travel Niches for Travel Affiliates – Part 2
July 22, 2009 – 11:30 am
Island Vacations Represent Great Travel Niches for Travel Affiliates – Part 1
July 21, 2009 – 5:03 pm
The proverb ‘good things come in small packages’ often rings true for many things in life, including, in our view, the travel and travel affiliate industries. Within this context, TravelDividends believes island vacation packages are a wonderful example of this old adage and representative of the types of untapped travel affiliate opportunities available in the […]
Linking Travel Affiliates and Luxury Travelers
July 17, 2009 – 3:08 pm
Although the failing economy has taken its toll on the luxury travel market, for travel affiliates, this super-niche still represents one of the most lucrative segments in the global travel industry. Perhaps the best opportunity for travel affiliates wishing to sell to luxury travelers is to ‘link-up’ with Luxury Link, one of the world’s leading […]
All-Inclusive Resorts Allure Travelers and Travel Affiliates
July 15, 2009 – 7:36 pm
If we were playing the TV game show Jeopardy!, and the clue to the ‘question’ is…‘sun and fun vacation at a resort with miles of sandy beaches, gentle trade winds blowing and a smorgasbord of fine food and seemingly limitless activities and entertainment’, then most contestants (and travel affiliates) would offer “what is an all-inclusive” […]
Exploring Travel Affiliate Opportunities with iExplore
July 3, 2009 – 2:27 pm
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 […]
Sports Toursim: A Ready Market for Travel Affiliates
June 30, 2009 – 9:16 am
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Air Travel Is For the Dogs – And Travel Affiliates!
June 3, 2009 – 5:59 am
The pet travel niche keeps growing, and that’s very good news for travel affiliates. A new airline, Pet Airways, is set to begin its scheduled “pawssenger” service on July 14th, and the travel affiliate channel is a key element of their distribution strategy. TravelDividends wrote about the growing travel affiliate sales opportunities in the pet […]