Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.
Last year AXA Private Equity and Permira competed fiercely in takeover battles of two European travel websites.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after all is under threat of indictment for war crimes in Belgium which has an extradition treaty with Britain, and therefore has to be careful about his European travel plans.
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.
European scheduled travel was up 1.2%, but passenger numbers between the UK and the US and Canada slipped by 8%.
In this article we analyze the potential growth in the European online travel market and factors that contribute to this growth.
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland has wreaked havoc on European air travel.
The efficiency of trans-European rail travel will be further boosted following the formation of Railteam, an alliance of high-speed rail operators across western Europe.
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.
Should that match in Italy go ahead if European air travel resumes following the volcanic ash fallout from Iceland, Inter boss Jose Mourinho will have eagerly noted Espanyol's success in nullifying Barcelona's star-studded line-up.
Past incidents of aircraft trying to fly through volcanic ash clouds and suffering damage and engine failure led European officials to shut their air spaces rather than risk a catastrophe, said Joe Sultana, an official at Eurocontrol, the intergovernmental body that manages European air travel.
Expectations are high among some financial analysts, investors and industry experts that the low-cost airlines, which now hold only 7% of the intra-European air travel market as reckoned by the number of passengers they fly, and even less by revenue, can reach the penetration levels achieved by their U.S. counterparts.
The market seemed receptive: Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) was expecting a pack of budget airlines--including EasyJet , Ryanair (nasdaq: RYAAY - news - people ), Go and Buzz --to triple their share of European air travel, to 28%, by 2010.
The men may already have left Denmark as their visas allowed them to travel within the 15 European countries in the Schengen borderless travel area, Danish immigration authorities say.
Today, the European Union announced a travel ban and an asset freeze on 14 Syrian officials.
It is largely because of the rise of low-cost, no-frills carriers, which often fly between secondary airports, that air travel between European countries has recovered to about the same level that it was in March 2001, according to the World Tourism Organisation.
The U.S. and the European Union, which pass travel bans to great fanfare, ignore them completely when sanctioned IRGC officials travel to meetings of international organizations.
Saracens get their European campaign underway when they travel to Clermont Auvergne on 9 October and follow that up with a home game against Leinster a week later.
BBC: Saracens sorry for Borthwick's Heineken Cup launch snub
The accord allows passport-free travel among 23 European nations.
Informed sources report that U.S. intelligence believes teams of terrorists may now be at large not only in several European nations (for whom travel advisories were issued last week by the State Department), but here as well.
Despite not qualifying for the tournament, European Ryder Cup captain Montgomerie will travel to Pebble Beach to cast his eye over the Europeans.
For American counter-terrorism officials, the biggest terrorist threat to the homeland is posed by European radicals who are able to travel to America more freely than, say, a Yemeni.
The authority says it paid for Mr Parsons' transport to the airport while he was also in receipt of a travel allowance from the European Union, meaning he was receiving the money twice.
The team is officially announced on Tuesday and Brewerton and her European team-mates will now travel to Sweden for the ladies version of the Ryder Cup on 13-16 September, where they will take on their American counterparts.
They dearly want the European Union to grant visa-free travel to Macedonians this year (and then open membership talks).
We do have visa-free travel regime with the entire European Union.
In guilty pleas, they admitted helping dozens of Iraqis and Jordanians travel to the United States on European passports.
While A8 nationals have the right to travel in the EU, many European countries close their labour markets to them.
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