Hotel wholesalers will fade and travel apps will favour intermediaries, Fogel predicts
Hotel wholesalers will decline or disappear over time and suppliers who thought they were beginning to get control of the distribution channel need to think again according to Glenn Fogel, executive vice president of corporate development of the world’s largest online hotel seller, Priceline.Spea [...]
Hotels.com and Columbus Internet launch ‘Hotels WithMe’ app in Asia Pacific
The 'Hotels WithMe' Facebook app enables friends, families and colleagues to get together through Facebook and collectively choose and book a hotel, ensuring that everyone is happy with the choice.For the first time, groups can collaboratively choose a hotel without having to sit in front of the sam [...]
Hotels.com bets on scale and localisation
Would you believe it that I've never booked a hotel via an online travel agency site? Nor an airline ticket for that matter. If I book online, I always go directly to the source. So it was fascinating to talk to Johan Svanstrom, the VP and MD of Hotels.com in Asia Pacific, about this very competiti [...]
How channel management yielded results for Caribbean Islands Travel
For Caribbean Islands Travel, life before it installed a channel management solution was cumbersome. To load inventory, its team had to open two sessions – one to check inventory and the other to load it.“We wasted a lot of time”, said Luis Medina, manager of Caribbean Islands Travel, a Florid [...]
Goodbye, random acts of marketing; hello, measurements and customer targeting
Say goodbye to "Random Acts of Marketing" as integration, alignment, visibility and return on investment (ROI) all top the list of requirements for marketing performance improvement through 2011, reports the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council in its latest State of Marketing Report released tod [...]
How sweet it is to work together for good, long may it continue
It is a well-known fact that there is no love lost between Malaysia’s national carrier, Malaysia Airlines, and Asia’s leading low cost carrier, AirAsia.The two airlines have had numerous differences for years – from landing rights to charges of favouritism from the government and unfair pricin [...]
Groupon Getaways launched in Hong Kong
Groupon Hong Kong has launched its new travel deal website, “Groupon Getaways”, which offers people in Hong Kong and greater Asia specialty travel deals including discounts on flights, hotels and cruisers, with weekly deal updates.Through the new site consumers are able to access attractive tra [...]
For Fernandes, it was love at first sight; for Diller, ‘I ain’t no fool’
It’s being hailed as a “marriage made in heaven” and a “perpetual partnership” and I guess only time will tell if it will be a “happy, till death or loss do us part” kind of union but at the launch of the joint venture between Expedia and AirAsia this morning in Singapore, the bride an [...]
Forget about calling home … social media is the way to keep in touch
Don’t sit by the phone to wait for a call from a loved one on the road as a Sheraton Hotels & Resorts survey reveals that road warriors are increasingly using social media, email to keep in touch while on the road.According to the recently released global social media study by Sheraton Hotels [...]
Forget big brother. Your company is watching you
In the name of ‘security’ and ‘saving cost’, big business is encroaching on every facet of their employee’s life, including the aspect of mobile telephony.At the ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) ASPAC Regional Conference held in Singapore last week, a good number of partic [...]
