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Baggage Fees? Or Better Passenger Choice? Tours.com's Travel-Intel Looks Into New Airline Ticketing Tactics
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Dec 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Airline fees is a topic as popular as fiscal cliff concerns these
days and airlines are clamoring to create new ways of funneling
revenue into items and services that were once part and parcel of a
purchased ticket. Bundling checked bags into a ticket, along with a
cocktail or other perk is just one of the ways airlines are making
fees look like benefits. Tours.com's Travel-Intel looks at some of
the latest methods airlines are using to get passengers to pile extra
cash onto the price of their ticket.
For those who will be among the record number of people traveling
this holiday season Travel-Intel notes ways to bypass bogged down
security lines by looking into federal "trusted traveler" programs
that pre-qualify fliers who use various airlines and airports on
domestic routes.
The latest issue of Travel-Intel also reports new trends in luxury
travel as posited by the 2012 Virtuoso(TM) Luxe Report. Myanmar,
Bhutan and Chile are the hottest go-to destinations by adventurous
jet setters, and Napa/Sonoma claims the top spot this year for
favorite U.S. getaway. Similarly, a survey by the U.S. Tour Operators
Association shows that 2013 is expected to be a boom year for tours
taken by U.S. travelers with adventure tours claiming the most
popularity, followed by culinary tours, multigenerational travel,
safaris and sports tours.
Finally, Travel-Intel looks at a range of rarefied resorts in Latin
America -- from the Mexican border to the tip of Patagonia -- all
offering amazing experiences in art, design, culinary set-ups, and
serene surroundings as part of the Kurtz-Ahlers collection of
exclusive resorts.
Travel-Intel, a division of Tours.com, monitors the travel industry
with weekly newsletters on trends, news and updates about the travel
industry sent to a permission-based database of more than 100,000
travel agents in the U.S. and Canada.
Although Travel-Intel is direct-mailed, current features and archives
can be viewed at www.travel-intel.com.
"In this issue of Travel-Intel we are trying to parse some of the
airline ticketing issues that have been plaguing the travel industry
in recent years. If all these airline fees are here to stay, the
airlines are clearly looking for ways to make them more palatable to
the flying public," says Lark Ellen Gould, content director for
Travel-Intel and Tours.com.
Travel-Intel brings in first-hand and well-researched stories from
all over the globe, reporting from international conferences and
destinations and talking to the brand managers at the helm of the
industry.
Gould, a veteran travel journalist who has been covering the travel
industry for more than 20 years, puts her incisive perspective into
the weekly publication, with features and news updates on the 1st and
15th of each month. These issues are complemented by the Travel-Intel
"packages" publication during the between weeks that detail great
deals to be found worldwide at hotels and resort locations, all sent
to more than 100,000 travel agent subscribers in the U.S. and Canada,
before posting on Tours.com.
About Tours.com: Tours.com since 1995 -- The Official Directory of
Tours & Vacations Worldwide. Tours.com has a deep and searchable
database of vacation and tour companies searchable by company name,
destination and/or activity. A comprehensive one-stop Travel Resource
section, plus the Find A Travel Agent Specialist search allows one to
search for travel agents with in-depth knowledge in their chosen
specialty.
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Contact:
Maria Polk
President & CEO
Phone: 415-332-7916
maria@tours.com
SOURCE: Tours.com
mailto:maria@tours.com
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