In an age of Math men, Brand Karma and Starwood win Data Creativity Award
For those who were at the WIT Conference last October, you’ll remember Lawrence Kuok, Manager, Digital Marketing, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific presenting a Facebook campaign that yielded unbelievable ROI.
Well, that campaign and the agency that executed it, Brand Karma, has [...]
Northstar Travel Media acquires Asia’s leading online travel content brand, Web in Travel
Secaucus, NJ USA, April 2, 2014 - Northstar Travel Media, the leading business-to-business information company serving the travel and meetings industries, has acquired Web In Travel (WIT), a Singapore-based multi-media platform content provider best known for its event series related to online tr [...]
Automation to replace hotels’ manual channel management
A key focus for hoteliers around the world in 2012 will be the integration of their online distribution with their Property Management Systems (PMS) and Revenue Management Systems (RMS) to make their online reach faster, simpler and more powerful.Forecasting trends for the online distribution of h [...]
Agents want more efficient process in selling ancillaries
Travel agencies are keen to assist airlines in distributing ancillary services through the GDS if the process is more streamlined and less-time consuming, reveals Travelport’s global airline merchandising survey.
Travelport found that one of the main gripes among agencies is the current [...]
A carnal appetite, stripped bare
An honest and unflinching exploration of sex addiction, Shame is far from the usual Hollywood fare.Steve McQueen's rendering of a sex addict's world has a fragile yet sinister beauty: beneath his ordered life, depicted through the protagonist's success at work and showroom apartment, lies an insati [...]
Three different perspectives on Shame
The challenge – for each of us to write a review about the movie “Shame”. So here it is, in consecutive posts, three different perspectives on the new Steve McQueen movie. As a journalist, I rarely miss deadlines, a consequence of working under an editor who said this was one word which me [...]
Magic – intrepid women travellers share their experiences at WITX
Singapore’s first professional female magician and escape artist Ning Cai (left) and her travel companion radio DJ Pam Ho, will be joining the all-woman’s cast at WITX 2012 in Bangkok this April.The two adventurers, both of whom have just completed a year-long trip around the world, will be tal [...]
Tourism comes under spotlight at Start-Up@Singapore
Hospitality and tourism was identified as one of the emerging industries in Singapore at a nationwide 24 Hours Business Plan Challenge organised by Start-Up @ Singapore.The aim of the competition was to raise the awareness of emerging industries, including Cloud Computing and Social Enterprise/Co-o [...]
Travellers “married” to their frequent traveller programmes
Loyalty programmes are so valuable to road warriors that they would choose them over a spouse if they could take just one on the road, reveals a survey of 9,900 globetrotters by Starwood Preferred Guest(SPG).The poll on travellers, who are on the road 25 times or more per year, found that most of [...]
Travelport explains its Agility programme
The following is a statement from Travelport outlining its Agility programme.Travelport Agility is an initiative to provide our travel agency customers with wide-ranging products in a single package and has been created to enable them to compete effectively in today’s rapidly changing travel indu [...]
