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This report will consider the appropriateness of the services offered in Jetstar for leisure travelers in its discussion, and will draw a conclusion on how certain concepts of these strategies can be utilized by managers at JS. Also, the interpretation of the different product strategies JS can implement. Lastly, the report will provide recommendations that could be implemented by JS for improvement to better understand the buyer’s characteristics.

It began participating in online sales at the Basic Booking Request level, a level specifically designed for its own needs in 1995, largely to make life easier for travel agents in its home market of Dallas (Bremner, C. & Fiona, J., 2008). This method of distributing their “goods” has benefitted Southwest Airlines immensely. Lower ticket costs, higher sales volume and cutting out the middle man, offering a pseudo bulk break method for the airline shopper. Southwest could improve on this media through progressive marketing campaigns targeting the areas of air travelers they currently do not. The elderly, young college students and those with children; these untapped areas hold a great possibility for revenue if Southwest is willing to target and market to them.

Before the days of the Internet, if a family wanted to travel to a far-off, exotic locale, they would have to either find a local travel agent or call a travel agency and plan their getaway. In the 1990’s, the Internet became a staple of everyday life and began entering many homes. As the availability of the Internet increased, so did the services available to clients. With the increasing availability of the World Wide Web the travel industry found itself faced with revolutionizing changes. All of the tools that were once solely available to travel agents now became readily available to anyone with access to the Internet and a search engine. Websites quickly formed around the idea of providing consumers with quick vacation planning ideas at low costs. Getting

Finally, the TSA's cumbersome and invasive screening process hurts the air travel industry. A 2010 poll showed that 35% of travelers said they plan to fly less, many citing the TSA as the reason[7]. Another survey in 2008 found that air travellers avoided 41 million trips due to perceived problems with the air travel system. This avoidance is estimated to have cost airlines $9.4[8]. The tourism industry is one of America's biggest industries. In 2010, the tourism industry

Costco and Sam’s Club website features are very similar when it to comes the way their search engine and display ads function. The only thing Costco has different from Sam’s Club is their new navigation is vertical not horizontal the website is displaying more of the category right from the home page for faster browsing. The site’s redesigned navigation ensures you never miss that one-of-a-kind Costco value. On their website you can easily find many features of a featured product on Costco home page by hovering over the image, also the website has new features where you can find a Costco warehouse and look up your Costco Cash Card balance directly from the home

Marketing campaign needs to promote and focus on family and group travelling plans and packages to suit their demands and needs

The buyer’s power is increasing with access to online travel brokerages which automatically provide the cheapest available airfares to desired destinations, regardless of airline. These services allow

Some of the best deals are those found when you purchase your hotel accommodations at the same time as your airfare. People who only travel during their vacations are not always aware of these package deals, but travel companies are aware of this and will usually call them vacation packages. These package deals can save a significant amounts of money on your vacation, but make sure that you are only paying for what you need. Some of these packages will have only hotel and room, but others may include a car. If you're not planning on renting a car, obviously this is a wast of money.

Going on vacation is never cheap by any means, but it is totally worth it to get away. The amount of money you spend on a house/condo, food, groceries, accessories, gas, or flying tickets, is crazy. If a family would sit down and average the amount of money they spend in a week they are on vacation, they would probably be scared. I know that when my family goes on family vacations, we probably spend close to that. It is totally worth the money to get away and enjoy a relaxing week with no

I was going to purchase a vacation since I perceived it provided a better value than purchasing the vacation a la cart, via a travel agent, or booking the vacation on my own. Groupon offers an all-inclusive vacation package to Punta Cana for $599.00 per person, including airfare (Groupon, 2016). One would perceive that the low cost was a great value. Value means different

àAs a result, the number of user-oriented travel tools on airlines’ direct Web sites increased dramatically in just a few short years. Aggregator Web sites : —  Such as Expedia.com, Orbitz.com, and Priceline.com —  A pseudo-competitive position relative to the airlines' own direct Web sites but also offered services beyond flight purchase, including hotel and vacation packages. —  The airline paid a fee to the

Of the total travel market only 1% was generated from the online travel market, and consumers still depended on customer call centers to confirm payment status. To counteract the risks it is important that Lucky Air create an effective business-consumer-business model that will do the obvious and draw consumers to their site and make an online purchase of airfare. To draw in consumers Lucky Air will need to focus on Web 2.0, which is the unique feature or features of e-commerce and the Internet coming together as applications and social media technologies. Web 2.0 will allow for a better online experience with inter-human connections, consumer interacted blogs and the staff to constantly monitor the site to provide consumer feedback. Web 2.0 is crucial to providing customer relationship management. Promoting reviews from consumers in regards to destinations and airline experience are important so the consumer can feel they are important enough to expose the truth from other consumers even negative remarks. But the single most important part of focusing on e-commerce is the ability to provide a online experience and advanced technology that enables customer self-service without the need for multiple customer call centers. Customers should be able to pay for fares, cancel fares, use a safe payment method that can verify a credit card, check on the status of flights and use rewards programs

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Customers are part of the process and taking their roles willingly. For distribution of tickets, initially commission was given to travel agents but later Southwest implemented a “ticketless” (paperless) travel program and later the development of Southwest.com as a means of using the internet to sell travel directly to customers. Southwest was a true pioneer in utilizing the internet, first establishing a website in 1995. This lowered distribution cost.

American business travellers take more and more their kids on the trips. In 1995 out of the 193.2 million business trips