Littering and spitting, worst offences among beach holiday-makers
Travellers in Southeast Asia named littering and spitting as the most umpleasant beach and pool misdemeanours with teenagers and young adults as the main culprits, according to aTripAdvisor survey.This was the response from about 70% of the respondents to the company's beach and pool etiquette surv [...]
Exit chat with Yilmaz: Mobile’s HUGE and online’s confusing – so take care of the basics first
The biggest change that Ali Yilmaz, the former head of travel for Google South-east Asia has seen in his 19 months in the role, is how big mobile has become as a channel for travel.In his presentation at the WIT Conference 2012 last month, Yilmaz shared statistics which showed:• 23% of all queries [...]
Top travel websites for October: Australia, China
Wotif, Agoda and Jetstar were the most visited websites in Australia in October, while over in China the top players were Qunar, MaFengWo and China Eastern Airlines. (Full details in slides below)AustraliaThe online travel space Down Under remained fairly consistent for the seventh consecutive mont [...]
Exposed: The mile high romps that go on
A recent survey by Asia Pacific’s and MENA’s leading travel search siteWego has revealed that airline passengers are still quite partial to becoming members of the mile high club.This fascination of experiencing one of life’s ultimate pleasures at 35,000 feet sees no sign of waning as around [...]
Users of Hotel.jp now able to search foreign sites
Hotel.jp has signed partnership agreements with Agoda.com, Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia Japan, which will give its users access to Japanese content on four of the world's largest hotel booking sites.It's also the first step towards the hotel and travel accommodation review website run by Ven [...]
ComeSingapore, a “personal tour guide” app
Two Singapore-based travel start-ups - Travelogy and TripFlick - have teamed up to launch ComeSingapore, a travel guide on the Android platform that allows visitors to plan their itinerary before and during their stay in Singapore.The app acts like a personal tour guide, helps travellers to plan [...]
MTT survey reveals key factors for airlines’ mobile success
Airlines listed usability and unique added value as among the top three most imortant factors when implementing their mobile strategy in a survey conducted by Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) at the recent IATA World Passenger Symposium.The airlines were responding to three questions from MTT - [...]
Confessions of a global soul: How travel moves Pico Iyer
I travelled last week through New Zealand with Pico Iyer in my head. I was reading his latest book“The Man Within My Head” to prepare for my interview with him at the Singapore Writers Festival and I couldn’t have picked a better companion.From his first breakthrough book 27 years ago, “V [...]
The Wrap: Malaysia Airports rebrands its hotels as “Sama-Sama”
The Wrap: In the news Malaysia Airports, Amadeus, Rakuten, TripAdvisorMalaysia Airports rebrands its hotels as “Sama-Sama”Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) is consolidating its air-side and land-side hotels at the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang under a new brand name, "Sama-Sama" [...]
Single? Male? 30-something? You’re the perfect airline passenger!
Skyscanner’s first survey of international cabin crew uncovers the good, the bad and the ugly of airline travel.The survey of more than 700 international cabin crew members in 85 countries revealed the perfect airline passenger to be male, in his early 30s and travels alone for pleasure rather th [...]
