Distribución y Revenue Management

🏖️ Civitatis works with over 29,000 travel agencies globally since 2018, offering activities in more than 4,000 destinations. The focus is on Spanish market, their origin. Agencies benefit from a handpicked activity catalog and a B2B platform for real-time bookings in Spanish. A department dedicated to travel agencies ensures price parity across sales channels. New features like "Reserve now, pay later" have been introduced. Agencies saw increased income and customer satisfaction, contributing to Civitatis' growth.

✈ Tarom, the Romanian public airline, sold its seven weekly flight rights at London Heathrow Airport, with the final operation on October 27. The sale price was undisclosed, but a previous sale to Oman Airlines was for $85 million. Tarom's losses are significant, making the sale a small asset in a sea of red figures. Qatar Airways, the buyer, will add an extra daily flight to its eight existing flights between Heathrow and Doha, also considering British Airways' two daily flights; Qatar is IAG's primary shareholder. Qatar Airways will use Boeing 777s, with a capacity of about 350 passengers, for the new nightly operation.

🏖️ Jonix Dose, Cuban YouTuber and influencer, highlights the significant drop in tourists in Havana, Cuba. Despite it not being peak season, popular locations such as Obispo street and Plaza de las Palomas, as well as the cathedral area, are notably empty. Dose points out the visibly low tourist traffic and the desolation of hotels, even outside the most famous ones.

📍 Ethiopian Airlines, recognized as the best airline in Africa, plans to establish a quality airport in Addis Ababa to operate as a hub connecting East Asia with Western Europe and America. The new airport project presented this week is designed for 100 million passengers annually, surpassing Dubai’s current numbers, and will be located in Bishoftu, 17 kilometers southeast of the Ethiopian capital, covering 35 square kilometers. The Ethiopian Ministry of Transport intends to compete with hubs like Dubai and Istanbul by leveraging Africa's less congested airspace.

🏩 Plantillas de agencias de viajes y turoperadores cerca de 70,000 empleados; la especialización en productos turísticos y la integración de inteligencia artificial son crecientemente necesarias; ACAVE desarrolla formación específica en IA; estrategias para captar y retener talento incluyen formación continua, estabilidad laboral y carreras profesionales definidas.

🏖 World2Meet (W2M) led by Gabriel Subías, has 16 premium travel agency locations known as Grand Azulmarino across Spain, with two more upcoming, totaling 18. These are situated in La Coruña, Oviedo, Bilbao, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Madrid (three offices, one in Pozuelo de Alarcón), Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Granada, Málaga, and Sevilla. As of May last year, W2M's retail division had 189 points of sale, aiming for 300 within two years.

✈ In July, Spanish airlines increased domestic flight prices by nearly 12% compared to the same month in 2023, a stark contrast to the 2% rise in previous years. Year-to-date, the domestic ticket prices have surged by 24.7%. International flights, however, have seen a reduction of 5%. The average price for national flights in July was approximately €119. July also saw a slight dip of 1.2% in international flight prices from last year, but an 8% increase overall this year.

🏖️ Holidu's ranking, analyzing 2023 tourist arrivals versus local populations in Spain, found Sant Llorenç des Cardassar in Mallorca most crowded with 595,340 annual visitors, 563,055 being foreigners. Sallent de Gállego, Aragón, follows with 51.8 tourists per resident and 75,675 total arrivals, 42,456 domestic. Peñíscola, with its medieval castle and beaches, sees 51.6 tourists per resident, totaling 383,548 yearly visitors. Naut Aran and Salou are also notable, with 49.4 and millions of tourists respectively. Top saturated destinations include Mallorca, Huesca, Castellón, Lérida, Tarragona, Las Palmas, Teruel, and others.

💰 TUI Group, Europe's largest tourism group, reported a 9% revenue increase to €5.8 billion in Q3, marking an eighth consecutive month of double-digit underlying EBIT growth, reaching €232 million, a 37% improvement. The group served 5.8 million travelers, with Hotels & Resorts achieving an underlying EBIT of €131 million, up 16% and occupancy at 80%. Cruise segment witnessed a rise in underlying EBIT to €91 million due to increased occupancy (98%) and 7% higher average rates (€235). TUI Musement's underlying EBIT grew to €19 million, with 2.8 million experiences sold. Overall, the company has doubled the underlying EBIT to €16 million within its Markets and Airlines segment and is expanding its product portfolio into Asian and American markets.

🏖️ In August 2024, Destinia reports a slowdown in last-minute travel bookings compared to previous years, with a notable decrease in demand. Average booking anticipation for August has risen to 55 days, an 85% increase from the 29-day average in 2023. Last-minute bookings for August dropped from 32% in 2023 to 16% in 2024, and bookings in the two weeks prior to the holiday decreased from 50% in 2023 to 39% in 2024. Travel costs have increased by 6%, with the average price now at 78 euros per person per night, up from 73 euros.