Travel News.US Office of Travel and Tourism Industries has published its figures for 2005. Taking out Canada and Mexico, the UK comfortably retains its position as the number one generator of inbound traffic Traffic originating in an area outside the continental United States destined for or moving in the general direction of the continental United States. with 4.4m visitors, nearly half of the European total. Japan comes up next at 3.8m. In 2005 international visitation to the US increased 7% over 2004 to 49.9m visitors. This represents the second consecutive year the US travel and tourism industry has benefited from positive visitation growth, having increased 12% to 46.1m in 2004. In monetary terms this is valued at US$8.9m per month, a 12% increase. http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/PressReleases/0306/tourism_030806.html http://tinet.ita.doc.gov Mar 19, 2006U.S. travel data plan would be costly. The U.S. may require airlines, travel agents, and cruise lines
Name Headquarters A'rosa Europe NCL America America AIDA Cruises Europe American Cruise Lines America to collect and store information about travelers in case of a disease outbreak. The proposed new guidelines could be costly to the industry. Mar 14, 2006 European Commission launched a public consultation on RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. "as their power to report their location, identity and history raises serious concerns about personal privacy and security, as well as technical interoperability and international compatibility." It added that addressing some of the concerns "may well require legislative responses." The Commission said it also is stepping up exchanges with the US and Asia on RFID technologies in order to define globally accepted interoperability standards and practices with regard to data privacy and ethical principles when applying the technology. Mar 13, 2006 American Express American Express's latest Business Travel Monitor shows the average international fare in the fourth quarter of 2005 increased by 7% year-on-year to $1,666 ([pounds sterling]955) one-way, with first class up 4% at $5,805, business class up 5% at $3,927 and discount economy up 9% at $1,113. However, in a trend that North American airlines North American Airlines is an American airline based in New York City, USA. It operates scheduled international services from the USA to Africa and Guyana, as well as domestic and international charter services and wet lease services. Its main base is John F. will find disquieting dis·qui·et tr.v. dis·qui·et·ed, dis·qui·et·ing, dis·qui·ets To deprive of peace or rest; trouble. n. Absence of peace or rest; anxiety. adj. Archaic Uneasy; restless. (but not the business travelers), US domestic flights declined to $216 ([pounds sterling]124) one-way in 2005, its lowest for six years. An upturn is expected for 2006. The Monitor is based on prices paid by Amex's business travel clients for 329 domestic US city pairs and 160 international city pairs. Average booked rates for US hotels, meanwhile, grew by nearly 4% from $132 in 2004 to $137 ([pounds sterling]79) in 2005, marking a six-year high. International booked rates were up almost 8% at $212 ([pounds sterling]121), the highest since 2000. Finally, the Monitor found that the average daily cost per car rental rose by 1.5% to $66 ([pounds sterling]38) last year. http://www.americanexpress.com/businesstravel Mar 19, 2006 Business fares fell at end of 2005. Business travelers paid less for domestic airline tickets at the end of 2005, according to the American Express Business Travel Monitor report. Travelers can expect fares to increase in 2006 as demand strengthens, the report says. Mar 15, 2006 EgyptAir EgyptAir signed an agreement with Amadeus to implement its Altea Customer Management Solution to handle inventory management, multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple sales and reservations, e-ticket management and distribution and departure control. Mar 17, 2006 Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems to offer GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards alternative to Star. Lufthansa Systems will join G2 SwitchWorks and ITA Software as a preferred supplier to provide an Alternative Content Access Platform to Star Alliance airlines, Star and LHS (filename extension) lhs - The filename extension for literate Haskell source files. announced yesterday.LHS is teaming with Farelogix on the project and will base its ACAP (Application Configuration Access Protocol) A protocol for storing configuration information in a central server. It is designed to enhance e-mail functions for remote users by providing a central location for personal address books and client application solution on "core GNE GNE Gateway Network Element (data communications) GNE Game Neverending (MMORPG) GNE Gross National Expenditure GNE Game Networking Engine GNE Graphical Network Editor (Nortel) [GDS new entrant] technology" from the Miami-based company, Anselm Eggert, LHS senior VP-Business Division Passenger Airline Solutions, told journalists during a conference call. Mar 17, 2006 Orbitz Orbitz updates alert system for delays after flight departure. Orbitz's care alert system will now notify a traveler's contacts if their flight experiences mid-air delays due to congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. , a diversion to another airport or for any other reason. Mar 15, 2006 Sabre Airline Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions is a subsidiary of Sabre Holdings. The main product of Sabre Airline Solutions is the SabreSonic system. This provides departure control, reservations, and, inventory management. , Jet Airways Sabre Airline Solutions said Jet Airways chose its AirFlite Schedule Manager and AirFlite Fleet Manager software. Sabre also was appointed technical adviser to Arabesk Group, a partnership of seven Middle East carriers (now including Tunisair) established earlier this month. Mar 14, 2006 SkyTeam SkyTeam launched a German version of its website this week. It now offers its site content in nine languages. No SkyTeam member is based in Germany but the alliance does serve 12 destinations in the country. Mar 17, 2006 |
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