Imagine the endless shopping sprees, extensive travel opportunities and elaborate parties.
Also, the Christmas holiday often provides retailers with additional sales and travel-related opportunities.
Fifty years ago, people tended to live closer to their elderly parents, but travel and work opportunities have led more people to move further afield.
Though the percentage contribution might decline in the future as higher demand from Asia-Pacific and Latin America outpace demand growth from Europe, the European online travel market offers higher growth opportunities compared to the US. The European online travel sales is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.7% till 2016 as compared to 4.8% CAGR for the US online travel market.
The fracturing online travel industry is creating opportunities for new players to swoop in.
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Unruh suggests looking into service opportunities during travel, or tours focused on the indigenous culture.
Much of the journey is propelled by motor but there are opportunities to travel by wind power.
People with lung conditions should have same opportunities to travel, free from discriminatory charges, as the rest of us.
The fragmented European hotel market and rising per capita income in emerging economies provide tremendous growth opportunities for travel agencies.
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Employment opportunities in travel and tourism, which fall into the leisure and hospitality industry, are abundant, especially during prime vacation seasons.
Chinese consumers today are also more progressive than their parents and "have had greater opportunities to travel internationally and are knowledgeable about brands, good customer service and inviting shopping environments, " Mr. Kirwan said.
Europe was less a region on the map than a state of mind, and bundling as many countries as possible into a single week appealed to workers with precious few opportunities to travel.
For travellers seeking adventure, Malaysia's stunning wildlife lends itself to many opportunities for sustainable travel.
Wait until it is safe to travel to volunteer sites and opportunities have been identified.
With a lower online penetration (compared to US), a fragmented hotel market and low OTA penetration in Eastern Europe, we believe that the European online travel market offers considerable growth opportunities for OTAs.
However, they say it is unclear whether it is a choice or an economic necessity for workers, who may have to travel further and longer for good job opportunities.
Look for opportunities to combine obligation and leisure travel.
Mitch Marcus resigned as chief financial officer of Orbitz Worldwide Inc. on Jan. 8, two months after he arrived, in order "to pursue other opportunities, " the online-travel agency said in a regulatory filing.
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As growth in the US online travel market slows down, online travel agencies (OTAs) are turning towards growth opportunities in other promising markets such as Europe and Asia-Pacific.
We expect the U.S. -based online travel companies to get a big boost from expanding international opportunities and, as evident from the recent announcements, Expedia seems to be targeting just that.
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His love for travel and cultural discovery seem to overwhelm any need for branding opportunities or chain-restaurant endorsement offers.
As I travel through the streets of my city, I view the opportunities that lay before them in the form of badly needed transformation and reform.
She is due to travel to Belfast on Friday to discuss the peace process and economic opportunities.
In the transport sector, the government has implemented the Sustainable Travel Centres scheme and in the business sector it has provided low carbon opportunities to SMEs and micro-businesses.
This created vast new opportunities in the sharing economy, while helping to change the nature of travel in its own way.
An increasing amount of travel advertising spending is expected to migrate from traditional offline advertising channels to online advertising opportunities.
Historically, Hotchkiss students have undertaken study, service projects and travel in the United States and throughout the world and derived great benefit from the opportunities, the school said.
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