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| Travel Safety |
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| Global Rescue today released results of the Global Rescue 2017 Travel Safety Survey. The data reveals that a clear majority (84%) have concerns for their safety for 2017 travel. Among participants expressing some level of concern, more highlighted Europe compared to Africa and the Middle East. Read more |
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| European Tourism - Trends & Prospects |
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| European tourism demand continues to grow and proves resilient to safety and security challenges and political turmoil. Overall growth, however, has slowed from the previous year (+5% in 2015) affected by those destinations required to rebuild market confidence following tragic events. The most visited region in the world welcomed 620 million international tourist arrivals in 2016, a 2% increase compared to the same period in 2015. Read more |
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| U.S. Travel Trends Index |
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| Travel weathered an abundance of challenges and continued to grow throughout 2016, according to the U.S. Travel Association’s latest Travel Trends Index (TTI). The final TTI based on 2016 data shows that travel to and within the U.S. grew 2.4 percent from December 2015, while the forecast component shows that travel will continue to expand at a moderate pace in the near term. Read more |
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| International Travel Trends |
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| International travel’s share of U.S. exports rises to highest level since 2000, according to new Commerce Department data. Read more |
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| Priceline Acquistion |
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| The Group's existing brand KAYAK to oversee operations of momondo and Cheapflights Read more |
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| United Airlines Performance |
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| UAL's January 2017 consolidated traffic (revenue passenger miles) increased 4.0 percent and consolidated capacity (available seat miles) increased 4.7 percent versus January 2016. UAL's January 2017 consolidated load factor decreased 0.5 points compared to January 2016. Read more |
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| Alaska Air Group Performance |
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| On a combined basis, Air Group reported a 6.9 percent increase in traffic on a 7.6 percent increase in capacity compared to January 2016. Load factor decreased 0.5 points to 78.1 percent. These statistics include flights operated by Alaska, Virgin America, Horizon, and those under third-party capacity purchase agreements. Read more |
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| WestJet Performance |
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| Airline increases traffic by 6.2 per cent year over year, flies a record 1.9 million guests for the month of January Read more |
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| Routes Americas |
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| The aviation industry will gather in Las Vegas next week (14 and 16 February) at the 10th annual Routes Americas conference to plan new flights in North and South America. Read more |
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