This is why the world needs business travel and peddlers in paradise
It really doesn’t matter how good the technology is and how much better we are at navigating Zoom, Swapcard, Brella or the myriad of event platforms that have mushroomed during this time in history but let’s face it, it will never be as good as being there.
Such was the feeling when I moder [...]
A time when small is beautiful and hotels think beyond rooming to programming: Capella’s Nicholas Clayton
Scale, size and might are usually lauded in the business world, and aspirations are often built around those values. However, in such a time as this, Nicholas Clayton, CEO of the Capella Hotel Group representing a cluster of luxury hotels and resorts, is thankful to be running a relatively small ch [...]
How Pitman is keeping Bali Wake Park afloat: “It’s about passion and reputation”
When you have lived to the age of 70, worked in gold mines, ran your
first business at the age of 21, operated the first cable ski park in Perth in
1986 and ran Air Bali for 15 years, there’s very little that can faze you.
Which is why Greg Pitman, who’s been running the Bali Wake Park for t [...]
LCCs the right model for post-Covid world; recovery is not near, but out of creative destruction may emerge new entities
Low cost carriers might just be the right model for the post-Covid world, said Scoot’s CEO Campbell Wilson, but recovery is still some distance away.
Speaking at
CAPA’s virtual Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, Wilson suggested “this is a
good time to be an LCC for a few good reasons”.
[...]
Turner urges, fix the present; Harbison says, fix the future; Joyce raises funds to invest in restructuring to ensure Qantas lasts 100 years
“We need to bring as many people as we can through this”, says Flight Centre Travel Group CEO
Airlines don’t make money at the best of times and these are the worst of times. Watching the opening couple of hours of Wednesday’s CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit on the screen was a bi [...]
Groundhog Day on rewind; no one is in charge yet everyone is in it
Do you feel that at times you are a character in the movie “Groundhog Day”? In that 1993 movie, Bill Murray plays Phil, a weatherman, who finds himself trapped in a blizzard and forced to relive the same day over and over again until he makes the right choices.
One of
his quotes – “What [...]
Cleanliness and hygiene take centerstage in Hilton marketing
Who could have imagined hotels would be advertising their cleaning processes and products on their websites, or building entire marketing campaigns around how they keep their hotel rooms cleaned and sanitised?
But in this
new world we live in, these are now valued and marketing hooks because cl [...]
How boutique hotels are like sourdough bread: AKARYN’s Anchalika on navigating Covid with wellness and sustainable luxury
Like most
of humanity during lockdown, Anchalika Kijkanakorn became really good at baking
sourdough bread. Each morning, she’d wake up at 6am to “go and feed the beast”,
the beast being the starter needed to make sourdough, as the non-baker me learnt.
And if she
could, she said, she’d s [...]
Covid Entry Check gives TruTrip a breakout moment as it builds new SME corporate tool focused on risk management and duty of care
You wouldn’t call it the best of timing. Singapore-based corporate travel startup TruTrip, which is creating a tool for SMEs to manage their travel, went live with its beta version in April but the timing has actually worked in its favour.
Co-founder Hugh Batley said the timing has given it t [...]
More “good companies” will go public post-Covid, says Saberwal as RedDoorz enters positive recovery territory
As Airbnb prepares for its much-anticipated IPO, Amit Saberwal, founder and CEO of RedDoorz, predicts that good travel companies will emerge out of Covid and there will be a lot of focus on getting these companies public.
“The good companies that will emerge will go on to become your unicorns [...]
