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2018 – whats in store ?

By IT Management Services, Last Minute Charter, Travolo

2018 has started on a little lower note for us. After hitting almost 1 mio users in 2017 on lastminutecharter.eu – we have taken down our advertising a notch in the winter months due to lower affiliate turnovers. So for 2018 we have a target for lastminutecharter.eu around 800.000 users.

We launched an updated lastminutecharter.eu mid January 2018 with improved search facilities, a new international frontpage and a lot of speed and seo improvements behind the scenes. We still have a few minor improvements under way which will be released in q1 2018.

The development of travolo.net is going smoothly and the target is to be up and running with the first market – Denmark – beginning of q2 2018. We very much look forward to serve our more than 500.000 users in Denmark with great travel advice on all thing “Travelish”.

A small project has also been setup – ready for launch in q2 2018. I have always wanted to make my own travelblog – with all the tales of the world that i have experienced – and its in the making, The website is there – the initial content is under way ! But look forward to reading about train, boat and flight adventures from all over the world on travellingwithjens.com.

As a result of the increased activity with lastminutecharter.eu, travolo.net and travellingwithjens.com the activity in Lieto IT Management Services will be at a lower level in 2018 when compared to 2017.

What an awful summer …

By IT Management Services, Last Minute Charter, Travolo

The summer in our markets have been awful .. yes you are right the weather has been bad ! But for lastminutecharter.eu bad weather means lots of visitors. We served more than 200.000 users in July 2017 – a growth of 25 % compared with 2016.  Year to date we are up with almost 15% compared to 2016 and getting closer and closer to the 1 million user per year mark.

The coming months will see some changes to the lastminutecharter.eu website as we continuously improve our search engine presence, introduce new search capabilities and a new international frontpage.

Our consulting business have been busy in the first half of 2017 but will not see many new projects in the rest of the year as we focus on lastminutecharter.eu improvements and development of Travolo.net. Travolo.net is set for launch end of Q1 2018.

2 years under the belt ..

By IT Management Services, Last Minute Charter, Travolo

Last Minute Charter has now been on the internet for 2 years. In 2016 we increased the number of users to more than 675.000 – a growth of almost 25 % compared with 2015. The number of followers on social media has grown to more than 60.000 – a growth of more than 80% when compared to 2015. 2016 has been a great year  but 2017 is going to be even better. With a 100% growth in our traffic from search engines and social media we are decreasing our costs. We keep on increasing the number of affiliate partners in our markets – providing great revenue streams together with our partners in the industry. In 2017 we have plans for one additional market and to create changes to our business model which again can enhance our revenue streams.

Lieto Information Management Services has seen a steady influx of new consultancy assignments in 2016 – primarily within infrastructure and operations. In 2016 we completed 6 projects. We expect 2017 to be at the same level.

2017 is going to be the year of Travolo – our franchise based travel deal site for everything “travelish”. We are going to build on Last Minute Charters established and proven methods. So stay tuned for more news about travolo.net in 2017.

Happy new year to everybody !

Welcome to the Netherlands .. Goodbye summer season ..

By IT Management Services, Last Minute Charter

We are happy to announce our entry into the Dutch market. With more than 6 million IT savvy and travel interested consumers in the Dutch market we have  – for a long time – wanted to get the Netherlands onboard. With travel deals from all the Major players in the Dutch Market we are sure to attract consumers to our price comparison service. We have launched ad campaigns on facebook, bing and Google and are already seeing solid traffic on our Dutch site. We are backed up by great partnerships with agencies that covers the Dutch market – in fact the Dutch site is already our best site when it comes to affiliate coverage. In the coming months we will be adding even more travel agencies to the site. You can visit the dutch site at http://www.lastminitecharter.eu/vakanties.

Our other markets are performing as expected. The summer travel season is over and the number of visitors on our site is coming back to normal levels. In August we had more than 70.000 users – an increase of 12 % when compared to last year. Our Social media coverage is slowly growing – we are now reaching 53.000 consumers through social media news streams.

In our IT management Service business we have just completed a bid proposal within IT-infrastructure  for a major systems integrator.