Change in an industry of blinding lights
The opening panel at last week's Asia Connect in Singapore, “The C-Spot: Customer, Chaos, Cloud – There's a new C in the air”, moderated by Web In Travel’s Yeoh Siew Hoon, featured Patrick Andres, VP Asia Pacific of Sabre Hospitality and Mario Jobbe, co-founder of Circos Brand Karma.To kick [...]
eRevMax launches RT Suite Review
eRevMax, creator of RateTiger, has announced the launch of its latest product RTSuite Review, an online guest review consolidator for hotels. The new platform enables hotels to manage their brand reputation and interact directly with guests across multiple hotel review sites. RTSuite Review will [...]
Finding Asia’s Finest Apps
Our business is knowing about the most innovative technologies, people and companies coming out of Asia. A few months ago, we set out to discover the best apps coming out of Earth's most populous continent, so we ran a contest called Asia's Top 50 Apps.The search for the Top 50 was completely open - [...]
Alitalia, Amadeus ink content pact
Alitalia and Amadeus have signed a full content contract which runs until the end of 2013. Under the terms of the agreement, Alitalia has expanded guaranteed access to its full range of fares, schedules and inventory from Europe-wide to all Amadeus travel agencies globally.Marco Sansavini, Alitalia� [...]
Amadeus and Garuda forge partnership
Just announced, Amadeus and Garuda Indonesia have partnered up to create a user-friendly booking system for Garuda's global customers. The implementation of the Amadeus online booking engine was timed to coincide with Garuda Indonesia’s re-introduction of services to Europe with the launch of [...]
Amadeus posts 30% rise in profit
Adjusted net profit for the nine months ended September 30 increased 30.1% to reach €354.6m at Amadeus IT Holding. This was backed by a growth in revenue of 12.1% to €2,053.6m and an improvement in EBITDA of 16.9% to €816.6m.Consolidated net financial debt on 30 September 2010 was €2,700.3m [...]
Attitude’s changing but are travel agents ready to ride the next wave?
One of the things that did please me about the Web In Travel conference this year was the increase in the number of traditional travel agents attending the event.And the ones that did and sat through the programme were visibly excited to learn about what’s going on and said they learnt a lot – t [...]
Burning Man – a personal experience, Part One
My brother, Edward (who lives in London), mentioned going to Burning Man to me earlier this year quite out of the blue and, whilst not on top of my things to do list, there were enough images and thoughts in my mind collected over the years of this enigmatic event for his suggestion to resonate wi [...]
A lust for wandering and creating goes a long way
You could be forgiven for thinking you have walked into a music store. Or is it a funky bar with its eclectic furniture? Or a Peranakan-themed French restaurant? Whatever it is, it’s hard to put Loh Lik Peng’s newest hotel in Singapore, Wanderlust, into any box.Which is how the hotelier (left), [...]
A customer’s voice: How you can get me to love you more
In three weeks time I will be attending WIT and participating on two panels. And today I enjoyed a lovely lunch with Siew Hoon talking about the event, all the arrangements and how tweeters and bloggers can participate in the true spirit of engaged and connected consumers.We talked a little about Fo [...]
