Technology to help Filipino travel agents manage industry’s rapid growth
Philippines' travel and tourism is set to grow positively in the years ahead, with both inbound arrivals and domestic passenger numbers expected to rise, with the latter increasing by 10% this year, making it one of the few countries achieving double digit growth.Booking figures from Abacus Intern [...]
People Power: How to be a talent magnet in the travel industry
Hot on the heels of our WITNext Summercamp, we asked David Brett, President, Amadeus Asia Pacific to share his views on how travel companies can attract and retain talent. A person who is attracted to a career in the travel industry is surely an adventurer. Naturally inquisitive, they want to trav [...]
The changing face of the Chinese traveller
The Chinese middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States. In 15 years the Chinese middle class will reach 800 million from 300 million today. Over the next five years affluent Chinese consumers will grow from four million to 20 million. It has changed and will cont [...]
Airline Cloud9 to bridge airlines and changing customers
From Japan to China to India, online travel is experiencing a boom throughout Asia Pacific. PhoCusWright estimates that the total travel market in Asia Pacific in 2012 will be worth USD294 billion and of this, the online travel market will account for USD70.6 billion.In Japan, amid a declining tra [...]
Online Review and Reputation Management Trends for Hotels
The use of online reviews and social media has reached an unprecedented level of adoption within the hotel industry – becoming nearly universally embraced by hotel executives in Asia and around the world as a key source of customer insight, a tool to achieve operational and service excellence, an [...]
ITB Asia 2012’s sold out
ITB Asia 2012 is completely sold out following the close of exhibitor applications in May, five months ahead of the event."Each year the show gets bigger and better. We increased capacity by 20% after a record performance in 2011, and with five months to go until ITB Asia 2012 we’ve not only fil [...]
New players giving new spin to the term ‘accommodation’
Talking to my hotelier friends in Asia, I am amazed by how many of them are still unaware of players like Airbnb and 9flats and not to mention, the rest that came along in the new wave of businesses offering different styles of accommodation for travellers.Across Asia now, we have Roomorama w [...]
Tourism Australia bets big on social media, 25% of digital budget goes on Facebook channel
The numbers from Tourism Australia are staggering – 3,184,016 “Likes” with 395,424 talking about it on its Facebook page(as at time of writing), 1,400 photos posted on its (Facebook) wall per week and 500 to 1,000 photos uploaded via Instagram per day.Throw in its official Pinterest page� [...]
You feeling stressed? Take the Travel Stress Index test
According to the United Nations International Labour Organisation, over 40% of employees suffer from stress on a worldwide basis.Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) said as the company’s continued focus is on the business traveller, the CWT Solutions Group developed the CWT Travel Stress Index to [...]
RDX claims to be game-changer in online distribution technology
The Room Distribution Exchange (RDX), an industry platform, allows hotel systems and online booking channels around the globe to connect directly over the web without needing to use third party distribution intermediaries.Mike Ford, managing director of SiteMinder, who launched RDX in Baltimore, [...]
