Expedia, Inc. Expedia, Inc. (Expedia) is an online travel agency and is a parent company to some of the world’s leading online travel brands, including, among others; Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com and trivago. Expedia caters to need of both leisure and business travellers in over 70 countries through their 150 websites, and connects them to 435.000 bookable properties and more than 400 airlines. The primary source of income for Expedia is generated through transactions involving the booking of
MICE visitors: business, leisure and education dimensions’ which is authored by Che-Chao Chiang, Brian King and Thu-Huong Nguyen and published in year 2012. The research is based on the motivational and socio-demographic characteristics of meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) visitors to Taiwan in order to identify salient market subgroups or segments. The objective of the research is to create a better understanding of MICE business, education and leisure-related motives and activities
established. These alternatives include; substitutions of travel costs; questioning people about their willingness to pay entry; use of contingent valuation
Expanding the product mix The product mix is the total range of products offered by the business. By expanding their product mix, the profits will increase in the long term. It is used to adapt to the ever changing tastes and preferences of the customers. Air Asia’s marketing objectives to expand the product mix include: - New routes and destinations all over the world. - Flights to Americas and other Western countries - Further destinations with Air Asia X. - Improving the Do-It-Yourself
5: Analysis 5.1 Forecast for North American demand positive In figure 1, we see a comparison of major long-haul flight routes. Between years 2010 and 2030 there seems to be little change in the balance: Trans-Atlantic traffic covered 36% in 2010 and is expected to have a share of 34% in 2030. Proportional demand seems to declining slightly, but we have to take in account the overall world-wide growing demand. As figure 2 shows, especially long-haul traffic has been on the rise from the year 1980
11031 Introduction Tourism bis atravel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business functions, sometimes for a restricted length. Touristy is often related to international travel, however can also talk bto jaunt another place at intervals a similar country. the planet touristy Organization defines tourists as peoplebtravelingbto andbstaying in places outside their usual surroundings for fewer than one consecutive year for leisure, a business and differentvfunctions . Tourism is s necessary
Provincial Tourism Office chief Boboy Costas, the numbers from DOT-7 were proof that Cebu remained as a top, favorite tourist destination in the country — for both local and foreign tourists — despite foreign trip advisories warning their nationals against travel to some towns of southern Cebu. In 2015, 4.6 million tourists were recorded to have visited the region. The figures jumped to 5.95 million in 2016. Cebu is still
Unit : 2 Destination Management: Policy, Planning and Promotion Table of Contents: 1.1 Debate the complex nature of destination management… ………....... 1 1.2 Analyze the dynamics of destination management…………………………..…….… 3 1.3 Critically evaluate the importance of tourism…………………………………………......4 2.1 Critically assess the challenges facing marketers………………………………………… 2.2 Identify the tools needed for making
Introduction In task one the analysis and understanding of the hospitality industry will be discussed and described as information was gather to completely obtain accurate data from varies sources according to the following subjects. Task One History of hospitality The 16th – 17th century is known for the start of the hospitality industry because laws were introduced regarding the hotel accommodation. Since then hotels had to keep register of all guests arriving. (CTH, 2014) Over 600 inns were
Recently Hayleys have spread their business over leisure sector by acquiring its first city hotel, Ceylon continental hotel in 2010 (In 2012 the name was changed as The Kingsbury PLC). Afterwards Hayleys acquired Hunas Falls, extending their wings over the hotel sector. As the third milestone in hotel sector of Hayleys PLC, Amaya Leisure PLC was acquired on 01st September 2011 by the Hayleys PLC and its group companies. As at the acquisition