The hotel industry is a profitable business. A huge amount of revenue is generated through this industry. There are various kinds of hotels available, namely; luxury, heritage and cheap hotels

Hotel industry receives the major part of revenue by foreigners visiting the country. Foreigners visiting India can look forward to exquisite stay at hotels

Bid2travel.com has become the first online Indian travel site which enable the consumers to bid for hotel rooms in the Indian hotels . It allows the consumers to decide the hotel price that they are ready to pay for the hotel room .   As per the latest survey increasing number of people undertaking last minute travel .They try to get last minute hotel deals .  This naturally results in big demand for hotel rooms .

Budget and affordable hotels in shirdi About Shirdi:- Shri Sai Baba is revered as one of the greatest saints ever seen in India, endowed with unprecedented powers, and is worshipped as a God incarnate. (SAI meaning Sakshaat Ishwar) – GOD THE ABSOLUTE Shirdi is a town in Ahmednagar district of the Maharashtra state

Business travel is performing better than expected with demand for flights and rail travel on the increase, according to Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). “We had predicted the year to be flat, but we have seen business travel coming back,” said Nigel Turner, Director of Public Sector and Industry Affairs, Carlson Wagonlit Travel. According to a report by Linsey McNeill in travelmole.com, as per CWT, overall air and rail transactions were up eight per cent for the first half of 2010; transatlantic flights were up 30 per cent over the first half of last year and long-haul travel was up 22 per cent, but domestic flight transactions were down five per cent

Finnair will increase direct flights from Helsinki to Hong Kong. Instead of the previous seven flights, Finnair will now fly to Hong Kong with a frequency of 12 flights per week from June 2011

According to a new research by American Express Business Travel, corporate travel professionals are increasingly using social media to communicate with travellers and to stay on top of latest travel industry information. Respondents also reported high expectations regarding their companies’ future social media usage plan, reporting that within the next year forums, webcasts, and online video are the most likely to be implemented by businesses.

Expedia Media, the advertising sales division of Expedia, Inc., has released insights from a new study on Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO) advertising trends. According to a report by Theodore Koumelis in traveldailynews.com, the study commissioned by Expedia and conducted by Revel, most notably revealed that DMOs are significantly shifting advertising dollars online and away from offline media, with some DMOs saying that online now accounts for more than 50 per cent of the organisation’s total advertising budget. According to the Expedia study, the shift of DMO marketing dollars to online media has occurred largely because of budget cuts and increasing pressure from governing bodies to measure results

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. (TCIL) has introduced the ‘Thomas Cook Wings Scholarship’, a unique offer for students travelling abroad for further studies. This offer is being offered under the well established brand ‘U SPECIAL’ which provides an opportunity for students travelling overseas for further studies to avail of a lucky chance of winning an education scholarship worth an air ticket.

Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry operating both the Galileo and Worldspan Global Distribution Systems (GDS), has announced its investment in Bahrain, where it has established new Galileo operations to provide enhanced support to the local travel trade. The GDS provider confirms that it has taken over the distribution of its Galileo platform in Bahrain following the end of its agreement with Middle East Computer Services (MECOS), part of Al Safar Group, and that it will serve all Galileo subscribers from a new, wholly-owned operation in Manama. With a full-service team in place to meet the needs of Galileo travel agents and partners, the new support structure will enhance the resources available to the local travel industry, facilitating access to Travelport’s extensive international network, best-of-breed technology products and comprehensive training programmes.