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Articles tagged “Travel Experiences”

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Travel Booking

New Research: Uncovering How Travelers Plan and Book Online

Expedia Group’s new “The Path to Purchase” report provides actionable insights to help travel companies inspire, engage, and convert travelers at each stage in the online shopping journey.

Expedia Group + Skift | 8 months ago

New Research: Uncovering How Travelers Plan and Book Online

Tour Operators

Private Guides Craft Niche Harvest Season Tours

Harvest festivals come with narrow booking windows that could lead to possible challenges. However, private group tour guides lend themselves well to designing these experiences with a difference.

Selene Brophy | 10 months ago

Private Guides Craft Niche Harvest Season Tours

Tourism

China’s Billion-Dollar Dragon Boat Festival Shows Faltered Recovery

China's iconic Dragon Boat Festival has seen year-on-year revenue growth. Still, the overall numbers for the 2023 festival appear to lag when compared to 2019, putting tourism recovery in the spotlight and whether added measures are needed to boost its growth in the world's second-biggest economy.

Reuters | 10 months ago

China’s Billion-Dollar Dragon Boat Festival Shows Faltered Recovery

Tour Operators

Klook and Almosafer Partnership Ups Access to Saudi Arabia’s Tours and Activities

The fragmentation of the tours and activities sector is an issue for destinations across the globe. But as Saudi Arabia pushes to reinvent its tourism offering, it sees digital booking and distribution as essential to growing its tourism numbers.

Selene Brophy | 11 months ago

Klook and Almosafer Partnership Ups Access to Saudi Arabia’s Tours and Activities

Tour Operators

Sports Takes Pole Position at GetYourGuide With New McLaren Experience

GetYourGuide has announced the addition of a sports tours category to meet booking demand, in the latest tweak to its digital platform interface this year. As the company experiments with matching the right tours to the right audience, this is unlikely to be the last.

Selene Brophy, Skift | 11 months ago

Sports Takes Pole Position at GetYourGuide With New McLaren Experience

Hotels

Marriott Bonvoy Sees Experiences as Lure to Boost Hotel Loyalty Program

Points as a form of loyalty isn't for everybody, as rewards are not always immediately accessible — but Marriott Bonvoy is looking to change that.

Selene Brophy | 11 months ago

Marriott Bonvoy Sees Experiences as Lure to Boost Hotel Loyalty Program

Tour Operators

GetYourGuide’s $194 Million Investment Raise Pushes it Towards $2 Billion Valuation

GetYourGuide has moved into the $1 billion+ funding league with its latest raise. This might seem high in the short term, but not if projections for growth in the experiences sector hold.

Selene Brophy | 11 months ago

GetYourGuide’s $194 Million Investment Raise Pushes it Towards $2 Billion Valuation

News Blog

TUI’s Musement Doubles Experiences Bookings and Plans Expansion

TUI Musement continues to carve its place in the growth flywheel of parent company TUI Group, with the launch of its digital TUI experiences platforms to take the brand beyond Europe and into the world. Sebastian Ebel, chairman and CEO of TUI Group, said TUI's activities segment continues to support the group strategy of bringing new customers into the…

Selene Brophy | 12 months ago

Tour Operators

TUI to Test Dynamic Pricing in the UK

TUI was doing "the connected trip" before Booking.com was born. But it needs to fine-tune its pricing and flexibility to stay competitive.

Selene Brophy | 12 months ago

TUI to Test Dynamic Pricing in the UK

Online Travel

Rising Prices See Travelers Changing Summer Travel Plans: Survey 

Survey data for summer travel plans and bookings suggest the so-called revenge spending from savings during the pandemic might be waning, as consumers are less keen to indulge themselves with extravagant vacations.

Selene Brophy | 1 year ago

Rising Prices See Travelers Changing Summer Travel Plans: Survey