Stranded travellers searching in vain for a way home caused disruption in new ways to the webdependent travel industry. Traffic and conversion trends to all travel sectors turned on their heads, sites crashed, and ecommerce staff themselves were redeployed to man overloaded callcentres. In an industry totally dependent on webbased communications and transactions, there are serious lessons to be learned, according to the TradeDoubler Insight team.
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Transactional traffic to airline sites dropped significantly in the midst of the volcanic ash travel disruption, and due to both confidence and availability, conversion rates halved in many cases.
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