eDreams ODIGEO announced that its Prime subscription service has surpassed 5 million subscribers, after adding 1.7 million new members in the last year alone. The significant achievement in subscriber growth further solidifies the programme’s position as the world’s largest travel subscription platform and one of the leading membership programmes across industries. Beyond sheer member volumes, Prime…
Klook Celebrates 9 Years with USD 9 million in giveaways
With travel recovery in full swing since the pandemic, Klook, Asia’s platform for experiences and travel services, records its strongest performance to date as it celebrates its 9th anniversary. Despite the constraints of the first full year of travel recovery in Asia, with flight capacity still well below pre-pandemic levels, Klook has seen an impressive…
Preferred Hotels & Resorts donates 1 Million I Prefer Hotel Rewards Points to Cancer Research
In celebration of the 2023 KPMG Women’s Irish Open, Preferred Hotels & Resorts – the world’s largest independent hotel brand – has donated 1 million I Prefer Hotel Rewards points to Ireland’s National Breast Cancer Research Institute, the event’s charity partner. As the official hole-in-one sponsor for this year’s KPMG Women’s Irish Open, Preferred Hotels…
Trevolution Group’s airfare sales cross USD 623 million milestone
Trevolution Group, the global market leader operating Asaptickets, Skyluxtravel, Dreamport and other travel services, has announced commercial results for the first half of 2023 showing record performance in airfare sales. During the past six months, the Group’s total gross bookings reached 623.57 million USD exceeding the same period last year by 43% and resulting in…
DXB welcomed 41.6 million guests in the first six months of 2023
Dubai International Airport (DXB), the world’s busiest international hub, welcomed 41.6 million guests in the first six months of 2023, over 100% compared to H1 2019. DXB registered a robust performance throughout the second quarter, during which passenger traffic surged by 42.7% year on year to reach 20.3m. May was the busiest month during Q2 with…
LOT Polish Airlines carried over one million passengers in July
LOT Polish Airlines carried 1,041,427 passengers. This is the highest number of passengers carried in a single month in the 94-year history of LOT Polish Airlines activity. The seat factor for flights performed in July 2023 was 83.5 percent and increased more than 4 pp. compared to the same period in 2019. “A very successful…
Jazeera Airways reports KD 6.27 million net profit for first half 2023
Jazeera Airways announced financial results for the first half (1H) of 2023 with total revenues up 26.1% to KD97.85 million and operating profits of KD9.35 million. Net profit for the period was KD6.27 million compared to KD 7.38 million for the same period last year. Profits for the last year also included a “one-off” gain…
Over two million expected to head off overseas for the ‘Great Summer Getaway’
ABTA – The Travel Association estimates that over two million British holidaymakers are set to head overseas for summer holidays the weekend (21-24 July), which for the majority of schools in England and Wales marks the start of the summer break, with 22 July expected to be the busiest day of the weekend. Spain remains…
Philippine international tourist arrivals breach 3 million mark
The Philippines has reached its 3 million international visitor arrivals mark as of July 19, 2023, the Department of Tourism (DOT) reported Wednesday. Latest data from the DOT recorded a total of 3,000,079 international visitor arrivals from January 1 to July 19, 2023. The country’s inbound tourism receipts from January 1 to June 30, 2023…
MICE to contribute 20% for Qatar’s 2030 goal of 6 million tourists annually
Qatar successfully hosted the 2023 World Cup; the country is also set to host the Grand Prix 2023 Formula 1 and 2023 MotoGP Grand Prix in October and November 2023. GCC countries contribute to 60% of global outbound tourism and what’s even more interesting is the fact that these travellers contribute to 75% of total…
