Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

11/18/2009

Cheap Travel to Europe: Plan Your Vacation at Affordable Rates

Planning and going on a holiday trip is a great way to relax and rejuvenate your self. It doubles the excitement and energy especially when you are traveling at cost effective rates. Cheap travel to Europe offers you with same joy and allows you to plan a good vacation at lower rates. Europe is a great holiday destination. Rich history and diverse culture along with beautiful locations is what fascinates most holiday lovers to this beautiful destination. Now its time for you because even you can plan an exotic holiday trip at effective prices easily.
In Europe there are innumerable destinations to visits Switzerland, Zurich, Paris, Rome, Italy and Denmark. You can visit your favorite destinations and locations. For this you must plan your holiday in advance.

Cheap travel to Europe
is attractive and affordable tour package offered by various travel agencies. To facilitate you with cost effective and cater all your traveling needs they extend easy solution. Right from ticket to food, accommodation, reservation, booking and lodging everything is planned to make your tour comfortable. Your budget is very well taken care of while designing these tour packages. Your bookings and hotel or taxi reservations are done in advance so that you are at ease and can just enjoy your tour. These agencies have tie up with various hotels etc. and therefore they charge a very reasonable rate that easily fit into your budget.
You can even search and access information online. There are many agencies offering cheap travel to Europe you can easily view the information and apply with them. You can easily select a deal according to your budget.

2/06/2008

Budget Travel signs exclusive deal with BlueSky

The Budget Travel has signed an exclusive, three year deal with BlueSky to use its itour reservation system. The search for the technology partner began last October, just after Budget Travel was bought by The Primera Travel Group.

BlueSky’s Oracle based technology is completely replacing the previous system from Anite.

“What was in place when Primera acquired Budget needed to be upgraded.” says Daði Ingólfsson, IT director for Primera. “We have great plans for Budget and we needed to bring in a brand new, robust and user friendly system to take the business forward. BlueSky was simply the best available,” he added.

The 1.5 million Euro deal was signed at the Travel Technology Show.

“A number of solutions were considered both in the UK and Europe to find the right technology partner,” says Nick Fowler, Sales Director of BlueSky Travel Systems. “We are delighted to be working with Budget Travel and Primera. We are implementing the itour product along with a number of other innovative enhancements. It’s an exciting challenge for BlueSky.”

BlueSky’s technology platform has a reputation for providing flexible functionality. “This has been the key to our success,” says Fowler. “The way itour is designed allows it to be adapted and enhanced as the market develops. itour can move with the times and react to changing trends in the travel business like dynamic packaging and dynamic pricing.”

Budget Travel, which is based in Dublin, was founded in 1975 and has a 34% market share in Ireland. The company operates 31 offices in Ireland as well as 15 franchises. More than 350.000 passengers travel with the company every year and annual turnover is expected to be close to 160 million Euro this year.

The Primera Travel Group in Scandinavia operates travel agencies and tour operating companies in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Estonia. Last year the group took more than one million passengers to destinations all over the world. It‘s turnover is in excess of 650 million euros.

Primera Travel Group, a privately owned Icelandic travel company acquired Budget Travel, Ireland’s leading tour operator from TUI AG. TUI AG is one of Europe’s largest travel and tourism groups, recently merged with First Choice plc.

source:http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/24407