Opodo, the Pan-European online travel portal continues to build on its success, as booking figures for its newly launched online package holiday service increase by 12% in the space of one month.   

The service, one of the first which allows consumers to book package holidays directly over the Internet, was launched in the UK (www.opodo.co.uk
) and Germany (www.opodo.de
) on July 12th. In conjunction with leading travel fulfilment and technology company DTS, the service offers customers thousands of great package holiday deals from all of the top tour operators. Online booking is available with a majority of the top tour operators including Airtours, Cosmos, First Choice, JMC and Thompson. Package holidays were introduced to compliment Opodo`s core offering of flights, hotels, car hire and insurance and to provide the consumer with a one-stop travel shop.

Jenny Taylor
, UK Country Manager for Opodo commented, “We are delighted with the initial success of our online package holiday service in such a short period of time. People are using the web to take advantage of the great offers available and our package offering enables them to book both Last minute holiday deals as well as full season breaks within one search request. We have found that the most popular package destinations booked via our site continue to be the more traditional destinations, such as Spain, Greece, Turkey and Malta”.

The launch was supported by a variety of online and offline marketing activity to encourage people to book late deals including email, integrated keyword placements on askjeeves.co.uk
and banner ads on sites such as btopenworld.co.uk
and bargainholidays.co.uk

 

 

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