eTourism Trends and News

La popularité des téléviseurs connectés à Internet, ou qui y sont compatibles, va changer la commercialisation des voyages. D’ici 2016, les deux-tiers des ménages nord-américains posséderont une smart TV.

À l’avenir, les téléspectateurs qui regardent des émissions de voyage pourront réserver immédiatement leur séjour à la destination en vedette via des applications ou des liens Internet, et ce, directement sur leur téléviseur intelligent. Ils auront accès à des offices de tourisme, des agences de voyages, des hôtels, des compagnies aériennes, des locateurs de voitures, etc. Les nouveaux modèles d’appareils permettront une interaction complète entre téléspectateurs et diffuseurs, annonceurs et développeurs d’applications, ainsi qu’entre téléspectateurs.

User review giant TripAdvisor is finally doing what pretty much everyone involved in the hotel sector expected it to do years ago – consumer metasearch for its vast portfolio of properties.

The company confirmed this week that it is currently testing “new search functionality” for hotels, covering both desktop and mobile versions of the service.

Randomly selected users have been able to see the new platform in action over the course of the past two months, but there is no time-line as yet when it will be fully deployed and available to rest of the site’s massive user-base.

Functionality mirrors many of the other hotel metasearch services around the web, with availability and prices for properties based on arrival and departure dates, and location.

Dutch airline KLM continually gets the attention of its peers around the industry, more often than not for simply doing things online that are more than just selling flight tickets.

Google has long been running a number of experimental Search and Gmail field trials anybody can sign up for and today it’slaunching a few nifty new search features for searching your Gmail inbox from Google.com on the desktop and your iOS or Android phone. Previously, Google already let you find you flights by using the [my flights] search operator, but now you can also use queries like [my purchases] to find your latest Amazon acquisitions and track they packages they are coming in.

The travel industry has undergone severe disruptions in the past decade with the ever-changing face of online distribution, where sites like Expedia, Orbitz or Priceline now play pivotal roles in the travel purchase decision model. In this context, social media gains influence before, during and after the travel experience, whether it’s done through posting pictures on Facebook while at the resort, or commenting and sharing hotel reviews via Tripadvisor after the trip.In 2013, travel brands are facing the next paradigm shift, which has been brewing over the past two to three years: the mobile revolution.

Are you wondering what the changing social trends are for consumers? If so, look no further. IIn Nielsen and McKinsey’s Social Media Report, consumers were surveyed to discover how they use social networks

Kayak added fare forecasts to its flight-search results — more than six years after Farecast, acquired by Bing in 2008, introduced the concept.

When you conduct a flight search on Kayak’s global sites Kayak now predicts whether the fare will rise or fall within the next seven days, and its level of confidence in the prediction.

From individuals who have implemented a small system to those coordinating major overhauls of existing platforms in large companies, organising travel technology is not an easy process.

It is clearly a combination of establishing the business and technology requirements, alongside budget, expectations, crystal ball-gazing and market analysis.