No beer, just laughter at this Happy Hour
I have moderated many sessions in my career – some are more fun than others. But I have to say that I’ve never laughed as much as I did during a recent session at ITB Berlin.The session was called “Happy Hour of Humour, Laughter and Optimism”. At first, I thought they would be serving some [...]
“I have no life. I need sex”
What happens when one of your staff tweet, “I have no life. I need sex.” With social media being so much a part of AirAsia's corporate culture, the airline shares some stories of how it recruits as well as how it stays in touch with its employees.Last year, AirAsia decided to use its blog to rec [...]
Hot off the press: Facebook Times
AirAsia’s success in social media sets Yeoh Siew Hoon thinking about what this all means to the concept of publishing.I come from the world of print publishing. I cut my teeth in print journalism. In the newspaper where I trained as a cadet reporter, the presses were located in the basement of the [...]
Airlines post robust recovery in March
The news on the airline front in Asia was pretty good until the volcanic ash crisis closed European air space for several days and grounded flights across the world.Preliminary figures released today by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) indicate that both passenger and air cargo market [...]
Ash fallout: Abacus tracks bookings
Bookings for Asia to Europe (Paris, London & Frankfurt) saw a slight dip in the 4th April to 10th April week compared with the previous week. There was no significant increase in Asia to Europe booking in that week. Correspondingly, bookings from Asia to Asia increased in the 4th April to 1 [...]
Amadeus assesses ash fallout on transactions
Whilst it says it is still too early to make a full assessment of all the data, Amadeus says initial reports have shown that the European flight ban caused by the volcano in Iceland has had a slight impact on the overall volume of transactions handled by the Amadeus data centre in Erding, Germany.� [...]
Travelport calls for crisis task force
Travelport president and CEO Jeff Clarke has renewed his call to develop a US-EU Task Force on Global Emergency Communications, and the AAPA has also joined in the growing chorus for better crisis management. The proposal was included in the Transatlantic Business Dialogue’s (TABD) “Building a [...]
Travellers posting more reviews on OTAs
Travellers are posting more hotel reviews on online travel agencies (OTAs) than on traveler review sites, a new study has revealed.According to the new report from PhoCusWright Inc. on the role of social media in online travel, OTAs were home to nearly three in four traveler-generated hotel reviews [...]
Petimo makes social networking fun and safe for children
WIT speaker in 2008, Prof Adrian David Cheok of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore and his team, have won an award for their invention “Petimo”, a social networking robot for children.The world’s first interactive virtual and real world social robot won the first prize in an international in [...]
Exhibitors applaud “quality over quantity” move
Exhibitors taking part in ITB Asia 2010 have welcomed the latest move by organizers, Messe Berlin (Singapore), to put quality over quantity in its buyer programme by introducing new filtering techniques as well as social media-like networking and referrals.Frank Trampert, Executive Vice President, R [...]
