Carlson Wagonlit foresees moderate rate increase for 2013
Prices in most areas of travel spend are expected to grow modestly around the globe next year, with the most significant inflation expected throughout APAC and Latin America, according to Carlson Wagonlit Travel 2013 Travel Price Forecast."Price increases in 2013 will begin to level off in most r [...]
Mygola chases simple to become the 21st century travel agent
If Anshuman Bapna has his way, travel planning should be as easy and simple as it is to plan with a friend. “That’s my desire – to make it simple, to become the Oprah Winfrey of travel planning. But to do simple is really hard,” says the founder ofMygola.com, a travel planning site.Mygola� [...]
Ancillary revenues soar for airlines
Ahead of the Airline Cloud9 conference in Bangkok, which will have a strong focus on ancillaries, a new Amadeus report reveals ancillary revenue growth of 66% in two years from 2009, with United, Delta, American and Qantas as top earners. The Review by IdeaWorksCompany, a consultancy in the are [...]
Cheap and cheerful’s working so far for Scoot
Six weeks after Scoot first’s flight and CEO Campbell Wilson is looking a tad more relaxed than when I first interviewed him in March.That time, he was fretting about making sure he got the AOC and his airline up in the air in time for the school holidays for both Australia and Singapore. This [...]
Are you ready to unplug? WIT 2012 goes live
Rumours have it that it was a gorgeous sunny day in Singapore. We wouldn’t know anything about that because we were holed up in our web agency’s office getting our WIT 2012 conference site ready for launch.And so this evening at 6.18pm, we have lift-off. No, we didn’t consult any feng shui [...]
Big year for South Korean travel industry
It is just halfway into 2012 and a number of market indicators are reinforcing Amadeus’ belief that the outlook for the South Korean travel sector remains strong, with its government and travel players making strategic investments to drive growth.David Brett, president of Amadeus Asia Pacific ( [...]
GDSs to bet on the future at Airline Cloud9 as online travel soars
Airlines and GDSs have always had a love-hate relationship, much like parents and their children, we suppose. They created them (the GDSs) and now that their “children” have grown up to be richer (definitely) and spoilt (well, maybe), tension has crept into the relationship.In some cases, tensi [...]
New AsiaRooms index shows region leads in online hotel bookings
Asia leads in online usage for hotel bookings with cost savings ranking lower on priorities compared to other markets, according to the new AsiaRooms.com Traveller Confidence Index (TCI).The survey, commissioned by AsiaRooms.com and in partnership with research firm VisionOne UK, shows Asia had t [...]
The man who wants to put Humaneity in travel
The first time Mark Philpott’s life changed was when he was working for DHL in Belgium. He was watching a local TV programme about an athlete who had been badly injured and would no longer be able to compete again.He determined to find the athlete and after a few hours of searching, his colleague [...]
SiteMinder sees doubling in booking revenues
SiteMinder's distribution platform delivered its growing list of global hotel customers using the platform just over USD$2 billion dollars in booking revenue from online channels in the 12 months to June 30, 2012 – double the figure from the previous financial year.The revenue was generated by a [...]
