PhoCusWright In The News

Travel agents know something you don't
CNN
The US travel market declined 15% in 2009, according to PhoCusWright, a travel market research firm. Travel agencies were hit even harder, declining 21% because their bottom line is affected by corporate travel and complicated leisure travel, ...
CNN: Use a travel agentTravel Weeekly

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Preeminent Travel Technology Conference to host key European travel leaders
Travel Daily News International
Travel industry research authority PhoCusWright has unveiled a pioneering program for PhoCusWright@ITB, taking place Wednesday, 7 March 2012 in conjunction with ITB Berlin, The World's Leading Travel Trade Show. Now in its seventh year, ...

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Online travel penetration lopsided across European markets
Travel Daily News International
Online leisure/unmanaged business travel share of the total travel market varies significantly by country, with the UK leading the pack, and Spain and Italy lagging far behind, according to PhoCusWright's European Online Travel Overview Seventh Edition ...

Sabre launches listing for green hotels
Travel Weeekly
Sabre says such a listing will gain favor among agents because two-thirds of travelers believe their travel habits can affect the environment, according to PhoCusWright, while more than half of the meeting planners in a recent survey said they will ...
Sabre Launches Industry's First Eco-Certified Hotel ProgramMarketWatch (press release)

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New York Times (blog)

A Travel Start-Up Raises Money for Planning Tourism Activities
New York Times (blog)
Travelers spend more than $27 billion a year on activities, yet these vendors have failed to become an integral part of booking services because they are small and often do not have Web sites, according to PhoCusWright, a research firm that analyzes ...
On-Line Travel Start-Up Hopes to Fill Activity VoidWall St. Cheat Sheet

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Financial Times

TripAdvisor statement in full
Telegraph.co.uk
According to a recent PhoCusWright study commissioned by TripAdvisor*, 98 per cent of respondents have found TripAdvisor hotel reviews to be accurate of the actual experience. We are the world's largest travel site and we have confidence that the 50 ...
TripAdvisor defends reader reviews following warning by watchdogthejournal.ie

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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Costa Concordia disaster crashes cruising season sales
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
"What happens in these types of situations within the cruise industry is it discourages first-time cruisers, and that is an important segment of the market," said Douglas Quinby, who works at PhoCusWright, a travel industry research firm based in ...

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Chicago Tribune

Hotels Ally on Booking Site
Wall Street Journal
Around 31% of all hotel rooms were booked online last year, up from 29% in 2009, according to PhoCusWright, a company that tracks travel bookings. Third-party travel sites accounted for 45% of all hotel rooms booked online in 2011, or about $15.2 ...
Room Key joins the hotel search partymsnbc.com
Hotels create own booking website, sidestepping Priceline and the likeConsumerReports.org

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Cruise bookings fall after Concordia shipwreck
Fox News
Nearly 11 million Americans took a cruise last year, generating an estimated $14.5 billion in revenue for the industry, according to PhoCusWright, a travel research firm. Like the rest of the travel industry, cruise lines are still recovering from the ...

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Cruise bookings fall after Concordia shipwreck
Salt Lake Tribune
Nearly 11 million Americans took a cruise last year, generating an estimated $14.5 billion in revenue for the industry, according to PhoCusWright, a travel research firm. Like the rest of the travel industry, cruise lines are still recovering from the ...

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Landry & Kling Appoints Jenny de Borja Account Executive for Strategic ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to PhoCusWright's 2011 report on groups and meetings, the number of planners who intend to use a cruise venue has increased a third since 2009. In this new position, de Borja will support travel management companies, meetings procurement ...

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CBC.ca

Carnival bookings fall in wake of shipwreck
STLtoday.com
Nearly 11 million Americans took a cruise last year, generating an estimated $14.5 billion in revenue for the industry, according to PhoCusWright, a travel research firm. Like the rest of the travel industry, cruise lines are still recovering from the ...
Cruise bookings down after shipwreckFlorida Today

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Cornell International Hospitality Summit India brings opportunities and ...
Hospitality Net (press release)
... Marriott; Oberoi Hotels & Resorts; Peppermint Hotels; PhoCusWright, Inc.; Questex Hospitality Group; Traveltechie.com; TTG India; the Cornell University MMH Program in Asia; and the School of Hotel Administration's Office of Executive Education.

Planners Access Social Media Reviews to Vet Venues
Travel Market Report
According to PhoCusWright, TripAdvisor has a 90% share of the review sites. However, PhoCusWright does not put OTAs in the review category, and the OTA reviews are becoming more and more significant because of their credibility.

AdAge.com

Priceline Kills the Messenger Because Ads Worked Too Well
AdAge.com
Between Priceline, Expedia.com, Travelocity.com, Orbitz.com, aggregator Kayak.com, and a new entry, RoomKey.com, online travel is a competitive, $109 billion-a-year business, according to PhoCusWright Research, which that predicts the industry will ...

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Orbitz counting on tech to be the ticket on ride to greater success
Chicago Tribune
Carroll Rheem, research director at travel market-research company PhoCusWright, sees it similarly. "They've been in a tough position for a while now," Rheem said, adding that compared with competitors, Orbitz "has been struggling to drive growth.

Hotel chains fight to reclaim revenue
Deseret News
Of the estimated $33.8 billion in hotel rooms booked online in 2011, about 55 percent, or $18.6 billion, came directly through hotels' own websites, according to Carroll Rheem, director of research at PhoCusWright Inc., a research firm.

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Study by OpinionLab and Tealeaf Identifies Mobile Experience as Top Priority ...
PR Web (press release)
The survey was completed by 345 marketers, customer experience executives and other e-business professionals attending the Forrester Consumer, Forrester Customer Experience, BAI Retail Delivery and PhoCusWright conferences and other events in fall 2011 ...

Tnooz

What else? Bite to eat, Travora, QuickMobile, FlightView cloud, TripWolf, Rail ...
Tnooz
In a very “app-propriate move”, mobile-events app developer QuickMobile of Vancouver, Canada, named Philip Wolf, founder and chairman of PhoCusWright, as chairman of QuickMobile. At the November 2011 PhoCusWright conference, QuickMobile offered iPhone ...

ITB Berlin to feature Mobile Travel and Social Media in the eTravel World
Focus on Travel News
Trade visitors will be able to obtain in-depth knowledge about social media not only at the eTravel World but also at the PhoCusWright@ITB Travel Technology Convention on Wednesday, 7 March and at the Marketing and Distribution Day on Friday, ...

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Integrated Global Rail Bookings Ready for Prime Time
Focus on Travel News
In 2010, the SilverRail technology platform was named the travel industry's top innovator at PhoCusWright's Annual Travel Innovation Summit. Every incremental passenger that SilverRail enables to book and travel by train rather than plane reduces that ...

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Moscow's online travel market is booming, Ostrovok.ru raises new round of funding
eu.techcrunch
Only last month travel industry research company PhoCusWright released a report predicting a continuing double-digit growth in the European online travel market throughout 2012. Ostrovok announced to use the funds to build out their engineering team.

Express TravelWorld

Concur Technologies gets access to IndiGo, SpiceJet content
Express TravelWorld
And as per PhoCusWright report out of this US$ 15.2 billion is potentially corporate business travel. Also 20 per cent of that US$ 15.2 billion spend could be out of policy which represents US$ 3.4 billion is out-of-policy spending.

Daily Mail

Costa Concordia couple's family: 'We accept they've gone'
Daily Mail
Nearly 11million Americans took a cruise last year, generating an estimated $14.5billion in revenue for the industry, according to PhoCusWright, a travel research firm. Like the rest of the travel industry, cruise lines are still recovering from the ...

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España sigue perdiendo la batalla de las reservas turísticas online en Europa
Communidad HostelTur (blog)
Según revela un informe de PhocusWright, el 47% de los británicos realizan sus reservas a través de este canal, superando el porcentaje del 46% de las naciones escandinavas. Asimismo, este mercado concentra el 28% de las ventas online de viajes de toda ...

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