Another shake up in the travel industry…TUI, the parent company of the Tour Operator Thomson, has announced that they could make 4,000 UK employees redundant in order to cut costs following the poor results of Thomson. Great Britain has becoming a very tough market for the traditional travel agents due to the success of low cost airlines EasyJet and Ryanair where 95% of the bookings are made online. Consumers have the ability now to package their own holiday mostly online. But how do they make their hotel bookings? Can they compare easily the price of a travel agent’ package and their own self-made package?
We have seen in the last 12 months the increase of awareness of different meta search engines (Kayak, SideStep, Mobissimo, …) willing to help the consumer to find the best possible deal on one website. At this stage, you still have to search for your flight separately from your hotel. Wouldn’t be great to compare dynamic packages from OTAs and traditional packages listed on tour operators’ websites? (Thomson, ThomasCook, FirstChoice, MyTravel and more)
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@Tom sure, that one of the main reasons. But do you know which roles/department are the most affected?
Posted by: Guillaume | Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 07:10 AM
Travel industry is the biggest Economic support of any country of the world and the job losses in this industry is just because of the Economic crisis all over the world.
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Posted by: Tom | Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 07:54 AM
Hi,
Have you taken a look to Trabber.com? is a search engine currently for air fares. You can check it at http://www.trabber.com
Posted by: dan | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 09:33 AM