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Online Travel

How Indians are Traveling During the Festive Season: India Report

Indians are increasingly prioritizing travel experiences and the long holiday during the festive season is incentive enough to satiate that wanderlust.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 6 months ago

News Blog

TUI Relaunches First Choice Travel Brand

TUI-owned FirstChoice.co.uk has relaunched as a new travel and experiences booking platform as the brand looks to strengthen its position with the flexible, independent traveler. First Choice, originally well-known for its package holidays, now offers an array of travel options tailored around the needs and unique points of interest of today's travelers, according to TUI UK and Ireland…

Selene Brophy | 8 months ago

Tourism

Greece’s ‘Towel Movement’ Protests Surge of Pricey Sunbeds Along Popular Beaches

Greeks are concerned that the simplicity of their local beach experience is threatened by sunbed overtourism.

Reuters | 9 months ago

News Blog

UK Travel Agency On the Beach Sets New CEO Start Date

The UK’s On the Beach Group has now said chief financial officer Shaun Morton will take up his new position as CEO on June 30. The confirmation follows the London Stock Exchange-listed company's completion of its search for a new finance chief to replace him. Now Jon Wormald will be taking the role, the company…

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Tourism

The Impact of Missing Russia and Ukraine Outbound Tourists

This once resilient group of travelers is unlikely to bounce back anytime soon after all the global sanctions. It's too early to determine the broader impact of the absence of Russian and Ukrainian tourists, but it will be felt — whether through the loss of revenue for seaside resorts or more broadly from a new cloud of uncertainty for travel.

Lebawit Lily Girma | 2 years ago

Online Travel

On the Beach Buys Classic Collection for $25 Million as Package Rules Get Upended

Online player On the Beach is making a play to attract the business of offline travel agents by creating a new online dynamic-packaging portal. Got it? In online travel, as in life, it sometimes pays to be flexible, and to buy stuff.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago