Pontins gains from the credit crunch as tourists stay home
Consumer belts are tightened more and more each day. But this isn’t necessarily for bad news for all market sectors. Take the domestic holiday market, for example. Pontins holiday camps are not complaining about a consumer downturn…
read more...»Chelsea FC and Business Students - A Request for Help
tutor2u has been engaged by Chelsea FC to produce a new suite of learning resources and activities to support Business Studies, focusing initially on Level 2 (e.g. GCSE, BTEC First) courses. We’d appreciate your help in shaping the content and style of these resources by completing this brief survey form. Personalised Chelsea Home Shirts are on offer to two lucky survey respondents…
read more...»Blue is the colour - business is the game
I’ve just returned from Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea FC, who have engaged tutor2u to develop a new suite of learning resources based on the club for Level 2 business studies courses.
read more...»Silverjet - A Classic Case of Start-Up Failure
The low-cost business travel market to the US & Middle East is now just about dead after the failure this morning of Silverjet. Around 10,000 business class passengers were left stranded. They will find a way to get home, but for the airline industry the Silverjet collapse could be a sign of things to come.
read more...»Have we reached the end of the low cost flying boom?
Its bank holiday weekend and ABTA estimate that almost 2 million people will be leaving the UK for an early summer break this weekend. But as they board their aircraft, the soaring price of oil may mean that this weekend’s great getaway is one of the last boom periods for the leisure flying market. Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways certainly thinks so.
read more...»Travel companies face the perfect storm
A combination of a the credit crunch and a weak pound against the euro is leading many in the travel industry to predict a summer of business collapses amongst tour operators.
read more...»Holiday giant ventures into the luxury segment
Now that there are just two dominant mainstream package tour operators in the UK, the search for profitable growth is taking businesses like Thomas Cook into more specialist segments. It has just bought one of the most exclusive luxury operators as part of a renewed acquisition strategy.
read more...»Can Willie Walsh save his job?
According to Jeff Randall, the Telegraph’s influential business columnist, the CEO of British Airways has just a week or two to sort out the Terminal 5 mess, or he will be looking for his next job. Randall has just conducted a fantastic interview with Willie Walsh on Sky News that challenges the CEO on his performance.
read more...»Are cruise holidays part of responsible tourism?
Are cruise liners the bad boys of travel? I guess I hadn’t thought about this issue before now, but I have come across a thought-provoking article on the issue.
read more...»Low cost airline growth? Its all an act…
Occasionally you come across a story that leaves you scratching your head wondering just what the heck is going on…
read more...»Terminal 5 - a useful 2 minute video clip for your students
Here is a useful, short video clip from Reuters that covers the operational problems that occured on the opening day of Terminal 5.
read more...»The Business Studies Lessons from Terminal 5
Rarely can there have been a business news story that provides such a rich source of business studies content.
read more...»OCR Applied Business Unit 9 - Ericas Eco Tours
We’re putting together our teacher and student revision toolkit for the OCR Applied Business Unit 9 case study. For June 2008, the case study is on specialist tour operating, a market that is brings the memories flooding back for me.
read more...»New owners for Pontins try to defy the product life cycle
Pontins, the UK holiday park business which was born in post-war Britain and thrived during the 1950’s and 1960’s, has just been bought for £46m by new investors. Can they turn reverse the decline in the traditional holiday park market?
read more...»Consolidation speculation in the budget hotel market
The budget hotel market in the UK has enjoyed stronger than average growth in the last decade. A small number of operators have steadily built their market share, and now there is media speculation that the two largest competitors will soon merge.
read more...»British Airways warning is a wonderful strategy case for students
An amazing headline in the Independent this morning. “BA fears oil price rise may destroy its profit margins”. The piece that follows makes for really useful reading for A2 business strategy students.
read more...»Supporters count the cost of following a Premiership footie club
How much would you spend to be a loyal supporter of Premiership football club? New research highlights just how much it all costs.
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