5. Agenda
• Online Travel Market Overview
– Global
– European
– Direct and Indirect
• Building blocks of your online success
• Trends in the Online Market
– Evolving Business Models
– Increased Complexity
– New Competitors
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6. Few words about your presenter
• Internet and OTA business
model fan
• Active in Polish and EE
GDS / OTA space since
2003
• Currently managing all
Eastern European markets
• Likes to win & challenges ☺
most recent 10 km run in
Warsaw beating up my 13
year old daughter!
8. World Travel Market by Region
2008 Travel Market By Region
RoW 11%
APAC 27% Value in $ B
APAC 700.8
NAM 616.0
Europe 982.8
Europe 38%
RoW 273.5
NAM 24%
Source: Travel and Tourism: Euromonitor International 2009
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9. E-commerce impact on travel
37%
21%
Share of total European leisure travel industry 2006 - 2011
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10. Online Travel Agents (OTA)
are gaining ground within the online market
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Supplier.com OTA
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11. More than 75% of Leisure travellers spend is
on non-air related product and services
Thinking about the trips you have taken in the last 12 months,
approximately how much do you think you spent on each of the following
Survey average
areas?
$197
$87
Air travel
$110 $658
Hotel or other accommodation
$126 Average spend
Food and drink / trip
Entertainment $132
Car (rental) $524
Sea travel
Rail travel
Bus / Coach travel
$425 Av. Number
Other
$589 of trips / annum
5.4
$520
Base: 12,757 Leisure Travellers
Source: The Futures Company/Lightspeed Research-Travelport Consumer Segmentation survey Nov 2009 – Jan 2010
12. Who doesn’t plan travel online these days?
Just 6% of French travelers, 9% of German travelers and 5% of
U.K travelers plan and book their trips completely offline
Source: Euromonitor, PhoCusWright, Company Reports, Travelport Market Strategy assumptions
13. Clear correlation between internet penetration
and leisure online travel penetration
North America leads developed world in Internet penetration; Greatest growth seen
in the Middle East.
Growth
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 2000-2009
North America 74% 134%
Oceania / Australia 60% 175%
Europe 52% 298%
Latin America /
31% 891%
Caribbean
Middle East 28% 1648%
Asia 19% 546%
Africa 7% 1392%
Global Average 26% 380%
Source: Internet World Stats
14. Europe and US lead credit card global
penetration
Share of credit Number of cards*
card transactions (millions, 2008)
United States 50% 1,174
Europe 23% 697 (↑11%)
Asia 15% 2,059 (↑17%)
Latin America 7% 461(↑6%)
Canada 3% 107
Middle East &
2% 90 (↑24%)
Africa
Global 99 billion transactions (2008)
Source: Nilson Report, November 2009), Euromonitor International
* Credit, debit and pre paid cards
15. Defining success criteria is key
• Success does not have to be high booking volume
• Key to determine what success is and how to measure it
• Going online does not have to mean choosing only one
way
So let’s have a look at some of the building blocks
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16. Building blocks of online success
IBE GRAPHICAL PARTNER’S
TECHNOLOGY INTERFACE PROGRAMMES
User Experience
USABILITY SEM & SEO
ANALYTICAL
in Online Travel
TOOLS
SALES
CALL CENTER
BENCHMARKING PROCESSES
PROCEDURES
EFFECTIVNESS
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17. Building blocks of online success
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®
by Stephen R. Covey
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw
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18. IBE technology
• Technology providers
• Contracting third party
for customized project
• In-house development
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19. Usability / don’t make me think!
• Where should I click now?
• Is it available?
• How can I search for a hotel?
• Where am I?
• How to start?
• Where did they put_______?
• What’s important here ?
Let me use it!
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31. Booking fee models will soon become dinosaurs…
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32. Non transactional websites will become more important
You said you researched your trip using the internet, specifically what type of websites did you use?
Search engine 66%
59%
Airline website 40%
40%
A third of traveller s
Hotel website 36%
36% using the internet to
Websites of the destination 40% research used a
visiting 32%
Travel websites (eg TripAdvisor, travel website which
31%
Lonely Planet, Rough Guide) 29% may have an
Online travel agency 25% element of social
26% Leisure
Website of a high street travel 15% networking e.g.
agent 16% Business
TripAdvisor
Car rental website 11%
14%
Social networking website 10%
11%
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Base: 59,499 Leisure traveller s and 3,064 Business traveller s
33. The distinction between Suppliers, Tour Operators
and OTA’s will continue to blur
Online Travel Tour Operators Suppliers
Agencies
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35. Social media & smartphones have created new
opportunities for travel companies to provide services
but how can this be monetised?
Facebook Places,
Foursquare and Google
Places provide users with Augmented reality
local content (offers, check- makes it
in) most useful on the
mobile web possible to overlay
82% of travellers data on the real life
using Priceline’s experience
mobile app booked
within 24 hours of
arrival compared with
45% of desktop bookers
Apple
iTravel
Does it have
potential to
change the
industry?
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36. Key take aways
• Online sales channels are becoming more and more important
• Online is not offline on the Internet
• Define your model and what success is
• Many building blocks
• Coming next
– Pure Play Booking Fee Models will be dinosaurs
– Non Transactional Websites will increase in importance
– Co-opetition will be the model
– How to monetise new opportunities social media & smartphones
have created?
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