More clicking for holidays

September 12, 2009 by  
Filed under Related Interests

Online sites see spike in bookings even as travel firms struggle to come out of slump

INTERNET-SAVVY travellers are double-clicking their way to holidays in droves, even as the travel industry in Singapore wrestles with the economic credit crunch. An average of 1,997 bookings per month have been made on Asiatravel.com so far this year, up from 1,408 bookings a month last year – an increase of 70.5 per cent. In the past two months, hotel and flight bookings at Zuji Singapore increased 10 per cent year- on-year.

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