The Millennial Traveller: A Young Tern’s First Flight, A Near-Startup Experience
Being a writer for Web In Travel has put me in the advantageous position of being able to interview countless travel startups as they head towards (hopefully) eventual success.
It’s frankly a nice place to be, buffered from the realities and hardships that budding businesses face day in and day [...]
Remember your first job? Key is how to make your travel careers last
We all remember the first time we did anything – first kiss, first flight – so when I asked my panelists at Tern, the travel careers event, last weekend what was their first job in travel, they all had vivid memories.
Timothy Hughes, vice president business development at Agoda, worked at a b [...]
“Never let anything stop you from travelling”: 10 best quotes from intrepid women travellers
Timing is everything and timing was on my side when I was in Penang when the “Zafigo Talk: Intimate Conversations with women on travel and culture” was on as part of the George Town Festival.
The talk was moderated by Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, founder of Zafigo.com, a new website to cater [...]
Amadeus picks out Power of 5 that will drive individual travel
Amadeus APAC president, Albert Pozo, has called out five global travel trends influencing the travel ecosystem. The “Power of 5”, which he shared at the first of the Amadeus Breakfast Club series for media in Singapore, includes the Internet of Things, virtual and augmented reality, the sharing [...]
Out of Expedia into Zuzu, a virtual brand and partner for budget hotels
Two former employees of Expedia have launched their own startup, Zuzu Hotels, to help consumers find good quality budget hotels in Asia as well as help hotels in the 2 to 3-star category get better at branding, distribution and revenue management.
Vikram Malhi, who worked with Expedia for eight y [...]
Five qualities of superior leadership and what makes effective digital talent
It’s all very well to say you want to embark on a “digital transformation” – as every company and his dog seems to be doing today – but it’s another thing to have the leaders and team who can deliver it.
In a global survey of views on leadership development, done in July and August 20 [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The Four Cores of Building a Millennial Career in Travel
In an industry as widespread as travel, things are changing constantly. The ‘sharing economy’ didn’t even exist before our lifetime but now we’re carpooling through an app and staying in strangers’ homes (whom we met online) instead of hotels.
Equally so, jobs in travel have evolved far [...]
Hooray, we have moved on from toilet rolls: Hartman on innovation and integration
It was good to see veteran hotelier Richard Hartman on stage at Hotelsworld Sydney being recognised for his contribution to hospitality – he received the conference’s 2016 Global First Award – and in familiar fine fighting form.
One of the things I liked about Hartman, best known for le [...]
GuestReady takes the guesswork out of property management
As the ‘sharing economy’ continues to gain momentum, systems are being put into place to regulate and standardise how the sharing economy is run. One company that is paving the way is GuestReady.
GuestReady aims to professionalise hosting on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb and HomeAway by [...]
Do we need to be more ‘touchy feely’ in a high tech world?
In the BBC TV series, “Humans”, the world is now divided into humans and “synths”, human-like robots who work among us. They work in our police force, clean the house, look after our children and pets, and really they can do anything we can, just more efficiently and without question.
How [...]
