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Booking direct seen as safer option

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Featured, Travel news

Nearly 40% of customers are more likely to consider booking direct with the tour operators Thomson, Virgin, Thomas Cook, Mytravel, following the collapse of XL Leisure Group - because they are confused about financial protection and this is seen as the safer option.

Research conducted by Lateholidays.com suggested only half of customers who have booked a holiday in the last year were confident their trip was protected by ABTA or ATOL, while 15% knew they would not be protected.

A total of 32% were undecided if the holiday was protected, while the remainder failed to answer.

Late holidays have seen evidence of this change. “People want security after XL’s collapse. A large influx of customers have come back to us saying they will never book with a travel agent again, with direct booking seen quire rightly as the safer option.”

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Thomson and Thomas Cook holidays strong figures

Posted on September 29th, 2008 in Featured, Travel news

TUI Travel which owns Thomson holidays. With there rival Thomas Cook both showed strong sales in trading statements issued today.

Thomas Cook revealed that a huge number of of bookings in the UK this year have been taken online, with the bonus for holidaymakers of extra discount to do so with total tour operator bookings through the thomascook.com website up by 56% year-on-year.

Thomas Cook said package holidays were proving to be resilient and the strong position the company has created in the medium haul holiday sector is “proving particularly beneficial” in the current economic environment.

The group said it had the flexibility to adjust its products to meet consumer demand for summer 2009.

TUI said its summer 2009 programme was 12% sold with average charter selling prices up by 12%. The programme for this summer is 94% sold, three percentage points ahead of this time last last year with higher levels of discount

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Online travel group closes

Posted on September 27th, 2008 in Featured, Travel news

Another poorly run travel group is bust after the farce that was XL holidays.. Online Travel Group, the company behind a range of online travel portals, has gone into administration.

Ok if you want the best value holidays and have your holiday protected by real holiday companies. Such as Thomson _ Thomas Cook _ Jet2holidays plus Virgin holidays ect then book direct and online.