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BA's Andrew Crawley gets promotion

Andrew Crawley, who is head of sales at British Airways, has reportedly been promoted.

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TUI Travel cuts capacity for "strong average selling prices"

TUI Travel is continuing to focus on managing its capacity in anticipation of a weaker earlier booking environment in the UK.

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TUI Travel's underlying operating profit up 53 percent

TUI Travel has delivered a £137m improvement in underlying operating profits (to £398m) in 2008 in its first year as a fully merged business (2007: £261m).

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Holidays still a priority for British consumers: research

Annual holiday is still a priority for British consumers, according to a research conducted by UK holiday firms Thomson and First Choice.

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eLong to balance prudent expense management against investments for growth in 2009

Online travel company eLong's third quarter net loss from continuing operations increased year-on-year by RMB8.1 million to RMB15.5 million, driven primarily by greater service development, and sales and marketing expenses.

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The impact of flexible pricing on forecast accuracy

Flexible pricing, flat rate, dynamic pricing ,and floating rates, all Revenue Management (RM) must begin with a scientific approach to developing a pricing strategy or all yielding will be done to inferior rates and less than optimum RM will be the result.  But before we go any further, let’s clarify the difference between a rate strategy and rates.  A rate strategy is how a property positions its rates verses its competition and is most often expressed as a range of rates.  Rates are within the rate strategy and are manipulated on a short term basis as demand dictates.

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"The best way to engage with the TripAdvisor community is to be open and proactive"

India Special - Interview with Sharat Dhall, MD - India, TripAdvisor

Travel community TripAdvisor launched its local Indian site, www.tripadvisor.in, in August this year.

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"There were couple of consolidations that were to take place but did not materialise"

By EFT Correspondent in Mumbai

"Customer trusts the agents and wants to deal with them. Face to face interaction and personalised response is the key. However, technology can play a vital role in our ability to serve the channel partners better."

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"We are not actively looking for acquisitions in India": Travelocity

By EFT Correspondent in Mumbai

Travelocity is about to complete its first year of operations in India. Significantly, contrary to the approach of some of the domestic OTAs in India, Travelocity is solely focused on a pure online model, operating with wafer thin fixed cost structures (with team comprising eight employees as of date).

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"We are not actively looking for acquisitions in India": Travelocity

By EFT Correspondent in Mumbai

Travelocity is about to complete its first year of operations in India. Significantly, contrary to the approach of some of the domestic OTAs in India, Travelocity is solely focused on a pure online model, operating with wafer thin fixed cost structures (with team comprising eight employees as of date).

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