Travel Agencies

Letters to the Editor, February 23, 2013

23 Feb 2013

The government is sending out conflicting signals. On the one hand, we face a shortage of everything: we compete for hospital beds, milk powder, school places, housing, and even when we die, we...

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Trade law to protect tourists from crooked travel agencies

18 Feb 2013

The revised Trade Descriptions Ordinance, which is expected to be passed before June, will include the tourism industry, the Consumer Council's chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said.

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Call for supervision of tourism firms after mainland tourists sleep on bus

15 Feb 2013

The call went out yesterday for stricter oversight of travel agencies after members of a mainland tour group spent a night on their coach and then were abandoned by their guides. The demand for...

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Modern travel: the best ways to get a discount

10 Dec 2012

Travel brochures, once a common sight, are now likelier to be found in a museum than a living room.

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Sky is the limit for global ticket firms

11 Oct 2012

Beijing's decision to break the monopoly of state-controlled TravelSky Technology in online air ticket sales has put foreign players in a dogfight for the robust and thriving market.

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Gathering momentum

27 Jun 2012

The popularity of online agents has changed the way business is done in the travel industry.

While the Hong Kong market has been dominated by international and regional players,...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Online sales agents in demand as travel booms

Shanice Tang Ho-yan (right), web production and creative manager at ZUJI Hong Kong, thinks that with the growth of the internet and mobile device users, the demand for online travel agents will...

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Hong Kong soccer fans give World Cup package deals the red card

Package bookings for this summer's soccer World Cup in South Africa have fallen sharply but travel agencies are still hopeful of a late surge.

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Prospects remain clouded with the mainland outbound travel market off-limits to overseas investors

It is still unclear when the mainland will open the outbound travel market to overseas players.

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Boom in outbound travel over Easter break

Growing trend of last-minute bookings leaves travel agents battling to cope

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Perfect package for touring hypochondriacs

You'd have to have sneaking suspicions about a holiday package that has a 'special offer' like one in a recent advertisement.