AIM-listed leisure company Minoan Group has reported a "robust" performance by its travel business.
Minoan expects next month to report reduced losses following a strong performance by its travel business.
Web portal giant Google (GOOG) entrance into the online travel business is an eventuality with the 2010 acquisition of ITA Software.
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Founded by Microsoft (MSFT) in 1995, the giant software company decided to get out of the travel business and spun off Expedia in 1999.
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Generally a higher number of competitors means more choice for consumers, but in the fragmented online-travel business some consolidation is good news for buyers.
Raised in a family of modest means, he started out in the travel business in his twenties, eventually moving into group and corporate travel.
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It said the majority of the job losses would be in its travel business, which is being "fundamentally reinvented as a result of the digital revolution".
US-based parent company Expedia.com reported a "steadily recovering travel business", while the UK's Lastminute.com has said it does not expect a significant drop in takings following the attacks.
Such payments would secure government contracts for Mr. Azimi's travel business to take Muslims on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Afghan and U.S. officials say.
It described trading since the financial year-end as "very positive", with commission up more than 20% across the travel business as a whole compared with the same period last year.
But an aggressive expansion plan has since backfired and it has scaled back parts of its business, including selling its Jetsetter travel business to TripAdvisor for an undisclosed sum in April.
The company's own job listings, for instance, have allowed Google watchers and followers to spot advance signs of everything from its online office suite to a possible foray into the travel business.
Expedia also operates a corporate travel business, Egencia (egencia.com), which offers custom travel products and services to corporate travelers and businesses, helping then optimize travel costs and improve their employees travel experiences.
Michael Egan made a mid-nine-figure fortune building Alamo Rent-A-Car into an industry powerhouse, and though he isn't much of a gear-head, his decades in the travel business convinced him that we haven't even begun to see the changes that will be wrought by information technologies.
What's more, dive operator Douglas Primus has developed a seaside resort whose first guests will be the 100-person TV crew. (No, contestants won't be able to pop over for a Coke, says Primus.) And if the U.S. program is a hit, the travel business can only benefit.
Many rapidly rising businesses specialize in digital media, attracting talent from other places like the West Coast and New York. 37-year-old Kenneth Purcell, founder of Iseatz, moved his entertainment and travel business from New York to NOLA in 2009 and has since grown his company from seven people to 25.
Despite recent quivers in world financial markets, most travel industry executives I interviewed for this video produced at the recent Global Business Travel Association Conference in Denver expect a very busy business travel season.
He was the longtime business travel columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and now writes on business travel for the BBC.
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The Council's report, Business Travel - A Catalyst for Economic Performance, also finds that business travel yields a return on investment of ten to one (in the US, the return is larger - 12 to 1).
If your employer participates, your travel management company or business travel agent can likely calculate how much it will cost to offset the carbon emissions from your flight.
While they are no longer consistently cheaper than any other departure time, red-eye flights typically travel east, allowing business travellers to travel overnight, arrive in an earlier timezone in the morning and not lose a full day of business activity.
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Minoan has been building a sizeable travel agency business under the leadership of former Direct Holidays chief executive Mr Wilson.
Now as more Chinese people travel for business and for pleasure, these types of hotels are becoming commonplace in modernized China.
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We can attribute much of these improvements to improving macroeconomic conditions and growth in international travel as business activity recovers and duty-free shops increase perfume sales at airports and ports.
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