Skyscanner expects Asia traffic to surpass Europe’s in 2 years
Skyscanner’s new office is pretty swish. From the 40th floor of the Ocean Financial Centre, you can pretty much scan the skyline of Singapore.On the walls are computer screens that show revenue tickers, session tickers, downloading times, tweet tracking – it’s like being in a medical room hook [...]
Hotels.com localizes sites for Indonesia and Vietnam
Lately, the stars have been aligning for hotels.com in the Asia Pac region. They have just localized their website for the Indonesian and Vietnamese markets, allowing consumers to do searches on over 135,000 hotels worldwide utilizing their destination preferences and languages. This brings the [...]
Social commerce can happen, but do it with respect
Social media is interesting in that it can help suppliers gain more traffic at their own branded site. As most suppliers have an efficient e-commerce engine on their own branded site, positive social media can actually facilitate more transactions.I know this is a big statement, but it's true. Here' [...]
Technology enhances AirAsia’s product and service delivery
From mobile travel protection to inflight entertainment via Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and a new airline management systemAirAsia, the region’s largest low cost airline, banks on technology for efficient services and to grow its ancillary business.AirAsia INSURE on the goOne of AirAsia’s latest tech [...]
Taking our eyes off the rearview mirror
For those of you at WIT last year, you may remember a guy wearing a strange hat and blabbing on (dreaming on) about something he called ‘Searching without Searching’. Well, that guy was me and I’m a believer in trying to imagine what could be – what would be great – without thinking too m [...]
Japan crisis opened BCD’s eyes to power of social media
At first he was skeptical of social media but now that he’s seen its value during the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, you can’t keep Greg O’Neil, president of BCD Travel Asia Pacific, from chattering.Chatter is an internal social media tool within Sales Force and O’Neil said [...]
Japan Internet users spend most time on blogs
More than 80% of Japan’s entire online population in Japan visited a blog site in June 2011, an increase of 7% from the previous year, according to comScore Japan KK, a subsidiary of comScore, Inc.FC2 inc. led the pack with 46.7 million visitors, followed by Livedoor-Blog with 33.4 million visito [...]
From Las Vegas: Super-connectivity is great but it carries risks
A super-connected world brings with it tremendous opportunities for travel and tourism and along with it, great risks, said Dr Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin College at the opening session of the World Travel & Tourism Council Summit in Las Vegas this morning.Connectivity brings with it c [...]
Jet Airways introduces Mobile Barcodes
Jet Airways announced that it has adopted the very latest in Quick Response (QR) mobile code technology to disseminate more information about its products and services to its guests.This initiative makes Jet Airways the first airline in India to utilize barcode technology to disseminate real time in [...]
Jetstar declares ‘decade of low cost for North Asia’
Japan Airlines in talks with Qantas. All Nippon Airways in discussion with AirAsia. No wonder Bruce Buchanan, CEO of Jetstar, is calling this the decade of low cost for North Asia.At a media conference to announce the launch of flights to Beijing, Ningbo and Hanoi, Buchanan said that while the 80s [...]
