Addressing the 3 C’s of Same-Day Bookings - Control, Cannibalisation and Commission
17-05-13
In 2012, Harris Interactive reported that almost 70% of consumers booking hotel rooms through the Expedia mobile app were looking to travel within 24 hours. Similarly lastminute.com recently reported on their increase mobile usage and mobile bookings within 24 hours. This coupled with the recent surge worldwide of same day booking apps, hotel chains know they need to get on board but there are significant challenges to overcome in the same-day booking market... Read more...
What can Airlines do on Mobile that they can’t do on Other Channels?
19-02-13
According to Google, 2012 was the first year since the launch of online flight bookings that there was no increase in online flight queries – it remained static. Meanwhile flight queries from smartphones and tablets for flight bookings increased for the first time in 2012. Moreover, since 2009, the number of leisure travellers using their mobile devices for travel information has increased by over 450%, according to The 2012 Traveler Study by Google and Ipsos MediaCT. Read more...
MTT Hackathon drives creativity and innovation
18-02-13
At MTT, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had the first MTT Hackathon of 2013 recently, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and spend a Friday afternoon cranking away on it. Read more...
Airlines need to put their customers at the centre of everything they do.
26-10-12
Airlines need to put their customers at the centre of everything they do. This is the message from the IATA world Passenger Symposium in Abu Dhabi last week. And there is nothing more fundamental to making this happen than mobile. Read more...
Airlines look to mobile technology
18-10-12
Originally published as a special technology report for MEED publication 12-18 Oct: The boom in smartphone availability and use means more people are connected more of the time. Consumer focused industries, from media to banking, must adapt to cope with the resulting closeness of their customers. A key sector under pressure to connect through mobile platforms is aviation. Read more...
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What will Apple do in travel? More questions than answers
30-07-12
A Google search for “what will Apple do?” returns more than two million results. Journalists, analysts, strategists, fanboys and even the odd civilian want to know. “Will Apple Launch an iPad Mini?“ “Does Apple’s recruiting video reveal a bigger iPhone?“ “Will Apple murder the iPhone?“ And then there’s the so-called iTravel. For four years the travel industry has been speculating about what Apple will do with iTravel. Read more...
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