{"id":89655,"date":"2013-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/january-wallpaper-meerkats\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:51:52","slug":"january-wallpaper-meerkats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/january-wallpaper-meerkats\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year Love Travelstart!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to 2014\u2026 that was quick! As always the free January wallpaper is available for download. Designed with your favourite device in mind, January\u2019s free background features a mob of Meerkats.<\/p>\n

Like the Meerkat, we\u2019re a family oriented bunch at Travelstart lead by our patriarch and CEO Stephan Ekbergh. A journalist recently asked Stephan a few questions about how he plans to approach 2014 and continue to WOW customers.<\/p>\n

Wallpaper and background downloads available after Stephan’s wise words.<\/p>\n

What will the challenges be in 2014?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We believe the next frontier will be mobile. We invest quite a bit in that, but we have no idea on what the future holds other than that the focus on a good mobile experience will become even more significant.<\/p>\n

Other local challenges will be to continue fighting dodgy “price beating schemes”, that don\u2019t benefit the customer or the industry.<\/p>\n

We also need more local competition on the air side. As it is now the airlines are making too much money and customers are paying too much for their airfares.<\/p>\n

For Travelstart we expect to see lots more professional online competition. If I think this is good or bad? Personally I\u2019d like to see all competition go for ever, but that\u2019s of course not how it works…<\/p>\n

What are the positives in the travel industry as we head into 2014?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully newcomer airlines will get off the ground and a stronger Rand would be great.<\/p>\n

In which areas do you expect to see the most change \/ growth and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe the days of travelportals are over – focus is key and booking.com has proven this.<\/p>\n

I believe the same goes for conglomerates in travel. Focus is key. If you\u2019re a tour operator you should probably stick to that. If you\u2019re a hotelier you should probably stick to that and not try to be a tour operator. If you\u2019re an airline you should probably stick to flying and selling those seats not trying to build credit cards, clubs, etc.<\/p>\n

Free Wallpaper Downloads for January 2014<\/h2>\n

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