TripAdvisor changes booking policies on animals attractions, launches education portal
TripAdvisor today announced its commitment to launch a set of industry-leading actions, including changes to its policy on selling tickets to animal attractions, and the launch of a new education portal to help inform travellers about the standards of care for wild, captive, and endangered species i [...]
Leveraging hotels’ true unconstrained demand with better data sources
This is a guest post by Patrick Bosworth, CEO of Duetto, a San Francisco-based revenue strategy technology company.
The hospitality industry has long used typical information sources to create as accurate a demand forecast as possible. However, with more sophisticated technology and software [...]
Is the tail wagging the dog? Time to flip the world around
I remember the first day I started wearing spectacles. I was 10 and kept failing my Math and the teacher thought there could be something wrong with my eyesight. I was so relieved, I thought I was just bad at numbers and was getting a serious complex.
Anyway, the first day I wore it, not only did [...]
Simon Lehmann to lead Phocuswright as President
Travel industry research authority Phocuswright, a division of Northstar Travel Group, today announced the appointment of Simon Lehmann as the brand’s president, effective November 1, 2016.
Lehmann brings to Phocuswright 25 years of strategic and operating experience, expertise in travel and te [...]
The Wrap: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
The weekly news roundup: Visa’s report on future of global travel and tourism, two new partners for Sabre, PayPals’s new merchants in APAC
VISA SURVEY: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
International travel among Singapore household [...]
Hotels under-investing in revenue management talent, says Duetto’s Bosworth
It is imperative that the hotel industry in Asia invests in educating the next generation of revenue managers – this is necessary for its own survival, said Patrick Bosworth, CEO and co-founder of Duetto.
Speaking at the Duetto Revenue Strategy Forum which it ran in partnership with Hotel I [...]
Two years on, here’s why Oracle bought Micros Systems – a new Hospitality Cloud
Two years after Oracle bought Micros Systems in June 2014, the buyer is finally ready to launch what it calls its game-changing Oracle Hospitality suite of solutions, revolving around a new dedicated Oracle Hospitality Cloud, within the Oracle V2 Infrastructure.
It’s clear the integration of MI [...]
Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
Sabre charts transformation of APAC travel technology at TTX
The 500+ participants at Sabre’s inaugural Asia Pacific Travel Technology Exchange (TTX) in Beijing last week were given an insight into the big trends and developments impacting travel and technology in Asia Pacific.
Sabre executives and guest speakers took to the stage to highlight the chan [...]
Momondo’s Burge on Brexit, emotion, meta and startups
Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Hugo Burge, CEO of London-based Momondo Group, to discuss, among other things, the impact of Brexit, the need for emotion and purpose in today's world of travcl, the evolution of meta and the investments he's making through HOWZAT Partners, and why it's a great time to [...]
