The European online travel market is worth €50 billion

The online travel market in Europe is currently estimated at €50 billion, according to an EyeforTravel Research report; and has been growing at an astounding rate of 41% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) in 2002-2007. At the same time offline travel expenditure has remained static.

WorkLight, the Web 2.0 specialist, is urging the European online travel industry to take advantage of the benefits of Web 2.0 technology, as online booking continues to grow. Worklight believes that with 1 in every 5 travellers making travel arrangements and booking flights and hotel rooms online, in this competitive market, companies need to take advantage of Web 2.0 services, such as personalized homepages, social networks, RSS, desktop gadgets and others.

Popular services such as iGoogle, Facebook, Yahoo Widgets, etc, have the unique ability to engage customers and partners in the places where they spend their time online. Companies can provide a better service, while customers can easily track and book flights and hotels, manage account activities, all without adding any overhead to their online experience.

In addition, other research by HotelBlogs found that Hotel rooms were the most popular component of online travel shoppers in 2007, as well as the fact that 50% of travellers used the same outlet for planning and booking their business and leisure travel.

WorkLight indicates that companies considering secure Web 2.0 solutions should ensure that customer data is secured and privacy concerns are respected, as the security risks associated with using Web 2.0 are still unknown to most firms, so it is important to make sure that any solution deployed provides enterprise-class security, in addition to consumer-class ease of use. (TravelDailyNews, September 2008)

James Blunt – Goodbye My Lover

James Blunt – Goodbye My Lover

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
‘Cause I saw the end before we’d begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what’s mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won’t stop there,
I am here for you if you’d only care.
You’ve touched my heart you’ve touched my soul.
Changed my life and all my goals.
Love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I’ve kissed your lips and held your hand.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I’ve been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer and when I wake,
You can’t break my spirit – it’s my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be

I’ve seen you cry, I’ve seen you smile.
I’ve watched you sleeping for a while.
I’d be the father of your child.
I’d spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We’ve had our doubts but now we’re fine,
And I love you, I swear that’s true.
I can not live without you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I’m asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I’m kneeling at your feet.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I’m so hollow baby , I’m so hollow.
I’m so, I’m so, I’m so hollow.

I’m so hollow baby, I’m so hollow.
I’m so, I’m so, I’m so hollow.

One smile for everyone

Never stop smiling, not even when you’ re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

Words of Wisdom

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Gene Doping: Super Athletes in 2008 Beijing Olympics

I won’t write so much, I will just post this picture. It will tell you everything. Picture says more than 1000 words.

Imprints of me on time

It shall not be that time will leave its imprints on me, but rather I shall leave my imprint on time.

Ideal Spirits and Heroes of Love

Only those who overflow with love will be able to build the happy and enlightened world of the future. Their lips smile with love, their hearts brim over with love, their eyes radiate love and the most tender human feelings—such are the heroes of love who continuously receive messages of love from the rising and setting of the sun and from the flickering light of the stars.

Those who attempt to reform the world must first reform themselves. In order for others to follow them on the way to a better world, they must purify their inner worlds of hatred, rancor, and jealousy, and adorn their outer worlds with all kinds of virtue. The utterances of those who are far removed from selfcontrol and selfdiscipline, those who have failed to refine their feelings, may seem attractive and insightful at first, but they will not be able to inspire others—or, if indeed they can, the sentiments they arouse will soon die away.

Goodness, beauty, truthfulness, and being virtuous are embedded in the essence of the world. Whatever happens, the world will one day find this essence, and no one will be able to prevent that from happening.

Those who strive to enlighten others, those who seek happiness for them and extend them a helping hand have such a developed and enlightened spirit that they are like guardian angels. They struggle with the disasters that befall society, they stand up to “storms,” they hurry to put out the “fires,” and they are always on the alert for possible shocks.

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