Abstract
New technology is a key driver of onboard entertainment with personal entertainment systems and Wi-Fi connections allowing passengers to bring their own equipment onboard, integration into the carriers systems will provide greater scope for consumers.
But what else are air, ferry and rail operators doing to exploit the dead time that is travel? Do the various transport modes invoke different customer desires? Or do the majority of passengers just want to be left alone?
Table of Contents
- Issues in the MarketMain issues
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
- Market in Brief
- Sky' s the limit
- Dip in dip out
- Future connections
- Business boost
- Easy as ABC
- Ferries fighting back
- Room with a view
- Internal Market Environment
- Key points
- Domestic doldrums
- Figure 1: Domestic holidays and expenditure, 2002-06
- Overseas on the up
- Figure 2: Overseas holidays and expenditure, at constant and current prices, 2002-06
- Far away places
- Figure 3: Outbound holiday visits, by region visited, 2001-05
- Broader Market Environment
- Key points:
- Entertaining spend
- Figure 4: Trends in personal disposable income and consumer expenditure, 2002-11
- Quality is key
- Figure 5: Trends in the age structure of the UK population, by gender, 2001-11
- A wealth of opportunity
- Figure 6: Forecast adult population trends, by socio-economic group, 2001-11
- Third age embrace multiple trips
- Figure 7: Forecast adult population trends, by lifestage, 2001-11
- Home from home
- Competitive Context
- Key points:
- Bring your own
- Read all about it
- Strengths and Weaknesses in the Market
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Market Size and Outlook
- Key points:
- Air travel fleets ahead...
- Figure 8: Total number of holiday visits abroad by mode of transport, 2001-12
- Factors incorporated in the forecast
- ...but at a low cost
- Figure 9: Scheduled passengers carried by main low-cost airlines, 1999-2006
- Sea ways
- Figure 10: Total sea and Channel Tunnel passenger traffic, 2001-05
- Commuters boost rail growth
- Figure 11: Passenger kilometres on UK national railways, 2001-05
- Shining star
- Figure 12: Number of passengers carried by Eurostar and Eurotunnel, 2001-06
- Outlook: huge technological expansion for OE
- Air
- Rail
- Ferry
- Mintel foresight
- Entertain yourselves
- Space
- Segment Performance
- Key points:
- Life' s not a beach
- Figure 13: Type of holiday taken for last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- Long-haul lifeblood
- Figure 14: Long haul holidays abroad, 2001-06
- Holiday multipack
- Figure 15: Number of holidays taken, by adults who went abroad for their last holiday, 2002-06
- Figure 16: Length of last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- How do you go?
- Figure 17: Main method of travel used for last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- The green myth
- Figure 18: Main method of transport used for last domestic holiday, 2000-06
- Companies and Products
- Key points
- In-flight entertainment providers
- Panasonic Avionics Corporation
- Thales Avionics
- Rockwell Collins
- Airlines
- British Airways
- easyJet
- Emirates
- Ryanair
- Singapore Airlines
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
- Ferries
- Brittany Ferries
- DFDS Seaways
- P&O Ferries
- SeaFrance
- Stena Line
- Rail
- Eurostar
- GNER (Great North Eastern Railway)
- Renfe
- TGV
- Trenitalia
- Virgin Trains
- Onboard games manufacturers
- Nintendo
- Figure 19: List of Nintendo Gateway customers, 2007
- The Consumer: Holidays
- Key points
- Independent spirit
- Figure 20: Holiday types taken in past 2 years, February 2007
- Detailed demographics
- Figure 21: Most popular holidays taken, by demographics, February 2007
- Figure 22: Next most popular holidays taken, by demographics, February 2007
- The Consumer: Entertainment
- Key points:
- Room with a view
- Figure 23: Relative appeal of onboard entertainment by mode of travel, February 2007
