Lights, Camera! Engage your guest with these five tips
This is a guest blog by Rocky Westbrook (pictured below left) from Sabre Hospitality on the effecitveness of using videos in hotel marketing.
In today’s online battle for room nights, a video can make all the difference.
Video is growing as a contributing factor to room night bookings. In a� [...]
A touch of Google Glass from Virgin Atlantic staffers at Heathrow
Living up to its long tradition of shaking things up and putting innovation at the heart of the flying experience, Virgin Atlantic is equipping its concierge staff at London’s Heathrow airport with Google Glass or Sony SmartWatch 2.
This makes Sir Richard Branson’s airline the first in [...]
Rocketrip raises US$2.6 million for software and product development
Rocketrip has landed US$2.6 million in Series A round of funding led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Genacast Ventures and others investors.
The company has received previous funding from Genacast Ventures, Y Combinator and angel investors.
The new funds will be used to acceler [...]
Customise search with Wego’s new Affiliate Network
Travel metasearch site, Wego, has launched the Wego Affiliate Network (WAN.travel), a set of DIY tools that allow travel and tourism website publishers to integrate flight and hotel searches into their own sites.
WAN.travel provides affiliates with a variety of customisable embeddable search box [...]
Fastest, smartest, luckiest – HotelsCombined rolls out ad trilogy in Middle East
Fastest, smartest, luckiest – those are the three wordsHotelsCombined is using in its television commercials in the Middle East to tell consumers that if you use their site to search for hotels, you’re one of those three.
The three commercials, done in English and Arabic, uses humour to put [...]
Big data, mobile solutions and social media take centre stage at ITB Berlin
For the first time eTravel World joins Travel Technology at ITB Berlin (March 5-9) under one roof in Hall 6.1 with an extra 50% floor space and a larger stage to host workshops, papers and discussions.
A pressing issue, which experts holding three lectures will be discussing, is secure communic [...]
Ibis, at 47% of Accor’s network, sets sights firmly on Indonesia
On the evening of Jan 21, Accor held three parties on three separate continents to celebrate its ibis brand’s 1000th hotel globally. At 12:30am (GMT +8), ibis Basuki Rahmat Surabaya, Indonesia, ibis Kurfurstendamm Berlin, Germany and ibis Botafogo Rio De Janeiro, Brazil were simultaneously online, [...]
The Wrap: Thai AirAsia X readies for flight, names new CEO
In the news: Thai AirAsia X gets AOC, American Airlines inks deal with Sabre, holidays in cities for Singaporeans, Amadeus acquires UFIS
Thai AirAsia X readies for flight, names new CEO
Malaysia based long haul budget carrier AirAsia X is on course with the setting up of multi hubs in the re [...]
Nine ways to capture the next billion customers in APAC, starting with China
Everyone knows the China market is huge and can only get huger – Chinese travellers are expected to make up 40% of Asian outbound (international) travellers by 2030.
And they can spend – according to the Boston Consulting Group, Chinese urban travellers took about 500 million domestic and out [...]
Travellers enjoy hotel service but unhappy over Internet
In 2013 travellers smiled about service but were irate over the Internet (or rather lack of), according to the latest
study by TrustYou which analysed over 14 million reviews worldwide.
The TrustYou global reports, developed by the company working in conjunction with New York University Prof [...]
