WIT Day One – Cross-firing on the C-Spot
Web in Travel 2010 opened on a blistering note with two teams – The Glee Team and The A Team - competing with each other to come up with the best customer insights that would drive change in travel distribution and marketing.The Glee Team comprised Ram Badrinathan, General Manager - Asia Pacific, [...]
WIT Day One – Japan revealed
The “Land of the Rising Sun” is one travel market that many want to tap and cultivate. But it is not an easy one to tap. Some insights into the market and the changing Japanese customers were revealed at the WIT Conference in the session, “My Name is Yuki-san, I Love to Travel”.Pictured left [...]
WIT Day One – On The Move Part One
Session description: After years of anticipation and expectation, followed by deflation, that mobile would change things forever, has it finally arrived? In this first session on mobile, we look at it from the view of the customer and how it has, and could, change the experience of those on th [...]
WIT Ideas Lab – The new image of luxury
It seems that after a hiatus, luxury is back, especially in Asia. Hotel and airline revenues are up, occupancies are up, average room rates are recovering and there is in general more activity in the market, something we haven't seen since the heydays of 2007/08. Today's panel, consisting of Paul K [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Bill Liu on the problems people are trying to solve
More entrepreneurs in Singapore are venturing into the interactive digital media space hoping to cash in on the growth of social media, observed William Liu, managing director of Stream Global, a venture catalyst.Liu, who will be one of the judges in the WIT Grand Finals Start-Up Pitch at the WIT C [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Bring down barriers, AirAsia X’s Azran implores
A level playing field and removal of protectionist and monopolistic barriers to encourage competition in both the aviation sector and in business, is the impassioned call of Azran Osman Rani (pictured left), chief executive officer of AirAsia X, Malaysia’s long-haul budget carrier.In implementing [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Mandala on the go, go, go
As the chief commercial officer of Mandala Airlines, Adrian Hamilton-Manns is a man on the go, go, go. After all, his mission is to develop the airline into one of the leading carriers in the rapidly-growing Indonesian market and the region.And the prospects are looking good. There is no doubt about [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Travelzoo takes it step by step in Asia, says Gurrie
Following the sale of its Asia Pacific division back to founder and chairman Ralph Bartel late last year, the deal-publisher and media company Travelzoo is ready to expand its wings in the region.There will be no new launches however; growth will come from leveraging and building upon its five ass [...]
WIT*e goes to Melbourne; Expedia’s Dan Lynn to speak
Melbourne, here we come. Dan Lynn (left), managing director of Expedia Asia Pacific, will kick off the first WIT*e – Inspiration & Mentoring to be held in Australia on November 25.In a conversation with Yeoh Siew Hoon, editor and producer of WIT-Web In Travel, Lynn will share the latest trends [...]
Wotif posts record profit of $53 million
Wotif.com Holdings continued its successful streak, setting another record year in profits. It posted a A$53 million full year after tax profit for FY2010, up $9.5 million over last year’s record result.The 22% uplift in profits was driven off the back of sales of 7.12 million room nights across t [...]
