A-Z of business travel trends – technology to drive change in the year ahead
CWT, in its forecast of key business travel trends for 2013, predicts consumer-influenced technology, such as mobile apps, will find its way to corporate travel.The travel management company said it has developed traveller-focused tools based on “mobile”, “social” and “local” principles [...]
Etihad, Cathay see technology as key to owning the customer
Many things were said by airline executives speaking at the two-day CAPA World Aviation Summit 2012 in Hong Kong this week but one clear message resonated with me – full service carriers are investing in technology to own the customer in every sense of the word.This is an area where low cost carri [...]
First WIT Indonesia to uncover insights and ideas in a boom market
Web In Travel (WIT), the premier event to focus thought, debate and personality around the subject of travel distribution, marketing and technology, is teaming up with Kibar Kreasi, an Indonesian digital specialist that organises events such as GeekFest, Women Wired Weekend, the Alphaterra Digital M [...]
Users of Hotel.jp now able to search foreign sites
Hotel.jp has signed partnership agreements with Agoda.com, Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia Japan, which will give its users access to Japanese content on four of the world's largest hotel booking sites.It's also the first step towards the hotel and travel accommodation review website run by Ven [...]
Creating content: Lessons from Hollywood
I’ve always been fascinated by Hollywood and filmmaking because despite its glamour, beautiful people, and larger than life personas, movies wouldn’t get made without a whole lot of tech geeks. Technology has long been a backbone of film-making starting with the proto-geek himself Thomas Ediso [...]
WIT turns 8: A reflection on the evolution of Asia from the floor
In the beginning there was an idea. Bring to Asia through Singapore, the gateway to the region, the state of the art in online travel. Eight years later, it is a very different story.Now Asia stands on its own. China is poised to take over from the USA as the leading travel market in the world. Alr [...]
Booking travel is as easy as www these days
Whether it’s booking hotels or apartments or flights, it’s become so easy for anyone to do so with confidence and the customer is really in control.Flying over the land of the long white cloud on my way to Queenstown, I had a chance to reflect on the booking journey that got me on this Air New Z [...]
Click, Click, Click
The enormous amount of time we spend to make our digital selves more attractive, as well as to fertilise other’s digital presences via Likes, Comments, Shares, Reviews, and Ratings so that we can mutually benefit by moving up in the Rankings – any type of search results page – is the biggest t [...]
View from Abacus: Asia’s the place to be and mobile favours intermediaries
While air passenger volume has moderated in the second half of the year, Asia’s the best place to be at right now, affirmed Abacus International at its International Conference in Seoul this week.
“The industry is still healthy, growth is still ahead that of last year and the money is [...]
Unplugged 480 Experiment: First survivor Clare shares her experience
The first survivor of our Unplugged 480 experiment – to see how 10 tech addicts can survive for 48 hours without Internet and devices – has lived to tell the tale. Here's her story.Name: Clare Annabelle ChiuWhat I do: Group Director of Business Development, Warwick Hotels & Resorts Why I am [...]
