How to get that dream job and build a career with purpose
One of the most common refrains I heard from tourism professionals who attended the WITNext Summercamp was, I wished there’d been an event like this when I was just starting out in my career.And thank goodness for my team and I, the 250 of you who attended over the two days seemed to agree and no [...]
Burufly packs curated content and social sharing to fly in Indonesia
Burufly, a new Indonesian travel start-up launched yesterday, wants to make it easy for everyone to plan their next holiday in Indonesia – and that means going beyond Bali. Founder Pete Goldsworthy shares the business case.Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
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MAS to sweat it out to revive fortune
Beleaguered Malaysia Airlines, bogged down by its biggest ever net loss of RM2.5 billion last year, has delayed its profitability target by a year - from 2013 to 2014 - and will focus on an aggressive revenue boosting campaign while striving to keep cost down.Its group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (p [...]
How the top travel websites performed in May
Expedia Singapore rules as the top online travel agency in Singapore for May, while Jipiao.trip.taobao.comleads the pack in Hong Kong and Wotif.com maintains the top spot in Australia.Below is a summary of how the regions’s top travel websties performed for May according to data from Experian Hit [...]
Demand for corporate travel stabilises, air fares ruled by economic unknowns
While airfares across the Asia-Pacific region saw domestic fares increase just 1%, fares to the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region fell 1% and intra-Asia fares remained flat in the first quarter of 2012, fares to the Americas rose 2%. According to the recently released 2012 American [...]
Webb tips something “big and good” from Red App Centre, sees Asia at inflexion point
Greg Webb, president of Sabre Travel Network, believes “something big and good” will come out of the Sabre Red App Centre, its B2B marketplace which is open for developers to develop apps and sell them to its travel agents.Since its launch, it’s had 1,000 app downloads from 42 countries and m [...]
Fogel: OTAs are about more than price and it’s a myth that hotels do not like us
Ahead of his participation in the 2012 China Travel Distribution Summit to be held on 12-13 September in Shanghai, Glenn D. Fogel, Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning for Priceline, shares with Travel Daily China the group’s plans for Asia Pacific and his take of the future landscape of onli [...]
New gen South-east Asians redefining travel to Australia
A new generation of South-east Asians travelling to Australia is effectively redefining the market, according to a poll commissioned by leading Asia/Pacific travel metasearch site,Wego.com.The study revealed that traditional group travel is in decline and Singaporean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vi [...]
The world of short-term rentals, flash sales and chicken wing optimisation
In China, you do whatever works – even if it’s “chicken wing optimization”. Yeoh Siew Hoon follows the discussion on travel opportunities at Echelon 2012, which was focused on flash sales and the short-term rental space.It was good to run into so many travel friends at Echelon 2012, Asia� [...]
Qantas bites the bullet, aims to be back in black by 2014
Embattled Australian flag carrier Qantas is to split its international and domestic arms into separate businesses and will expand partnerships with worldwide airlines to bring it back to profitability by 2014.Stephen Thompson, Qantas' executive manager global sales (pictured left), speaking at t [...]
