Amadeus add 9000 hotels

Since March 2006, Amadeus added 9000 hotels in its site. It reachs a total of 70000 hotels.
Its offers a large range of establishment located in downtowns, secondary cities and countryside. All traditionnal travel agencies can use it, but also online agencies which are connected with Amadeus system liKe Opodo for example.
Its help the hotel industry to grow up and travel agents in their work because they use only one computer tool to find the informations they need.
In fact, as M Antoine Medawar, the managing director explained, they growned up their inventory by 15% in 6 months.
Over 70 hotel brands (which representant 12000 properties) have signed up to its Best Available Rate which is a garantee for Amadeus to be supplied by hotels with rates that are the same or lower through over distribution sustems.

http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/content/article/061031_amadeus_adds_9000_hotels/

Egypt.travel reports record visits

This article is about the new official website of the country of Egypt named "egypt.travel".

Nobody can forget the crash of Sharm el Sheikh, and it's a good thing to relaunch tourism that the Egyptian Tourism Authority had in creating this website.

It's a kind of "identity card" of the country.
There, futur travellers can learn more about culture, attraction, activities and information about customs formalities (visa, useful phone number in case of problem...). It's available in such a lot of languages like German, french or Russian.

The Egyptian Tourism Authority also provides a second website for travel agents and medias, whitch is available in 18 countries in 14 languages.

They also plan to create an online website where they add a series of online educational modules for agents.

To my mind, it 's a good thing to promote a country like Egypt whitch met such problems in the past (like terrorism or air crashes). It helps travellers know more about the country without going to a travel agency and it's something great because travelllers are becoming more and more selfcontained.


Please find under the link to the article :

http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/content/article/060928_egypttravel_reports_record_visits/

Meet your perfect travel match online

In order to satisfy and attract more travellers, and also to grow up their travel market, Lonely Planet's, the online travel forum decided to fitt up a link on its website where you can find your "traveller soul mate".

In fact, a few years ago, meeting people on the web wasn't something widespread. But nowadays, people are often netusing, as internet became an ordinary object.

On this dedicated session, travellers who don't want to go on an organized trip with a group can advertise by themselves with all the criteriums that they want to find a travel friend.

It's open to everybody, singles, couples or also friends who want to share their trip for different reasons : financials, security or only for meeting people.

They have the opportunity to first meet in regular social events, to go on a group trip and also can access discounts through a partnership.

To my mind, it's a great idea to have created this website because nowadays, travellers are more self - contained, as they can book their trip on internet, but don't have inevitably a personn to travel with.