31 Dec 2000
Leisure Vouchers has teamed up with British Holidays to offer customers
a choice of 19 parkland holidays in England, Scotland and Wales.
31 Dec 2000
| by ANNA CLARKE
Posthouse Hotels is offering business travellers the chance to win
pounds 1million through its 80-property hotel chain.
The 'Win a Million' promotion lasts for eight weeks and is the second of
two Posthouse promotions this year, through Clarke Hooper Momentum
(CHM). It follows June's 'Check...
31 Dec 2000
In an effort to lend solidity to its brand, travel web site
Asiatravelmart.com has launched a print publication. The magazine, known
as TravelMart, will give holiday buyers more information about
destinations, and push them in the direction of the Malaysia-based web
site to buy travel products...
31 Dec 2000
| by LYNNE MURPHY
United Airlines is giving its frequent flyers the chance to
accumulate air miles while they use the web. The airline last month
began to offer its new United dashBar web companion to its 38 million
Mileage Plus members.
The bar enables United to persistently brand the customer's desktop...
31 Dec 2000
AroundASIA.com is a fairly standard online hotel reservation
service which, according to the blurb on the site, 'is managed by a team
of seasoned travel industry professionals'.
It certainly isn't managed by a team of web designers. The whole thing,
it has to be said, looks pretty amateurish....
22 Dec 2000
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Rail Group has failed in its bid to take over the east coast mainline between London and Edinburgh.
21 Dec 2000
Lunn Poly is launching a new TV campaign through WCRS. The ads, which break on Boxing Day, focus on the positive aspects of buying a holiday, particularly the excitement after booking, rather than relying only on price. The two ads show a mechanic and a teacher at work daydreaming about their holidays.
18 Dec 2000
Hertz Europe's retail sales and marketing director Elizabeth Harraway is understood to have quit the car-rental outfit to join Galileo, a company that provides global electronic distribution services for the travel industry. Marketing Week.
18 Dec 2000
| by JEREMY LEE
Mediawise has picked up two pieces of business from holiday outfits James Villa Holidays and Vaconsoleil.
18 Dec 2000
British Airways has left out its major European rivals from a shortlist of potential buyers for Go, its budget airline.