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Newsweek, May, 2007
As president and CEO of Travelport, a conglomerate of more than 20 travel products and services that includes the online consumer site Orbitz, Jeff Clarke is on the road about 200 days a year--and always appreciates being able to check his e-mail via BlackBerry on the runway wherever he lands. He discussed the changing face of tourism markets, customers and technology with NEWSWEEK's Susan H. Greenberg. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Where is growth strongest?
CLARKE: In China, particularly, we're seeing new hotel properties popping up, and significant traffic intra-China. But Russia is by far one of the largest and fastest growing travel markets; over the past year, we've seen 19 percent growth, from about 7 and a half million plane trips to about 9 million. We're also seeing 11 percent in India and 8 percent in China. In the U.S., overseas traffic is the largest in the world but ...
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