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2009 Q1 UK travel industry summary from Latitude

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Latitude have put together a nice report giving a few pointers as to what happened in the UK travel sector in Q1 this year. It also includes hints for search engine marketing in Q2

The PDF is a nice summary of research conducted by a number of organisations as well as their own analysis.

Download the PDF – Travel Q1 Summary [UPDATED]

Further information from www.latitudegroup.com

Yes I know the document says Confidential on it – but they want you lot to read it and gave specific permission for it to be published via this blog :)

Update: New link to PDF. This version has an executive summary and further thoughts. They have also removed the confidential word!


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