South Sulawesi is Indonesia’s “hottest” destination
Burufly, Indonesia based social travel site, reveals the country's top 10 destinations based on its social engagement statistics, with South Sulawesi heading the list, followed by East Nusa Tenggare and Jakarta.Details in infographics below: INDON [...]
Bangkok, NYC get most searches, UK travellers procrastinate, and US has shortest trip durations
This is a blog by Nicolas Borel, COO Travel Intelligence, Amadeus IT GroupWe recently blogged about the cities that generated the most air traffic, and not surprisingly London, New York, and Tokyo came in as the top 3 cities.We also highlighted that the travel industry was changing at a really fa [...]
Asia’s growing for Rezgo but payments still tough nut to crack in tours and activities
Rezgo, the pioneer in cloud based software for tour and activity businesses and which recently crossed a million customers, is seeing 20% of its total bookings come from APAC operators.CEO Stephen Joyce, who told WIT that 22% of the tours offered in its system are based in the region, said that Asia [...]
The Wrap: World’s first Twentieth Century Fox theme park in Genting Highlands
In the news: New international theme park for Genting Highlands, The Miele Guide closes, Xtreme Booking in Japan, HotelQuickly launches in New ZealandWorld's first Twentieth Century Fox theme park in Genting Highlands Genting Malaysia Bhd, which owns and operates Resorts World Genting (RWG) in Gen [...]
Mygola’s new claim – create amazing trips in 15 minutes – as it pivots to itinerary model
Mygola, which started as a travel planning service with the aim to be a “global uber travel agent” to make it easy for customers to plan their holidays, has changed its model to be a one-stop shop for users to plan their travel itineraries.In an interview with WIT last July, Anshuman Bapna, CEO [...]
#BarondaMaluku – a social initiative to revive Maluku’s tourism
Since the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) sectarian conflict broke out in early 1999, travellers, including Indonesians, have been avoiding the region even though the conflict ended in 2002. Acmad Alkatiri, from the islands, decides to use social media to lure back the tourists.Acmad Alkatiri, or Mad as [...]
HotelClub goes back to roots, targets China
Orbitz-owned HotelClub is gearing up to make big changes to its offering for consumers in mainland China by the end of the year.While making the HotelClub Chinese website more relevant to Chinese consumers, the brand is also repositioning itself – recognising its roots as a travel club.So far Hote [...]
Russians prefer booking their holidays at the last minute
A survey by IPK International’s World Travel Monitor, commissioned by ITB Berlin, revealed that booking one’s holidays at the last possible moment continues to be a popular trend among the world’s most important travel markets, which make up the biggest percentage of holidays.The habit of boo [...]
He dreams of a global passport and believes ‘Asia Factor’ can mean the difference between success and bankruptcy
If global strategist and author Parag Khanna had his way, there’d be 250 million people who would travel with a global passport, and the world would have its first identification not tied to a nationality.In fact, that was the idea he submitted to the US$1 million TED Prize 2013 and it ended up [...]
Online population in Southeast Asia on the rise, with largest numbers in Vietnam
The number of Internet users in Southeast Asia increased by 9% to 62 million, outpacing the global Internet growth rate by more than 60%, according to comScore’s “2013 Southeast Asia Digital Future in Focus” report.With 16.1 million monthly internet users, Vietnam now has the largest onli [...]
