Peach wants to be Muji or Uniqlo of airlines as it champions Japan inbound
Peach CEO Shinichi Inoue wants his airline to become the Muji or Uniqlo of aviation. Accepting the Low Cost Airline of the Year award at the CAPA Asian Aviation Summit on Monday night, Inoue said with those two brands, you don’t think of them as where they come from but as global household names.T [...]
LCCs in North Asia hampered by archaic airport regulations
Airport regulations are ‘archaic’ and ‘limiting’, said low-cost carrier (LCC) panelists at the CAPA Asia Aviation Summit 2015 in Singapore this week.Speakers at the North Asian LCC panel slammed over-regulation, although where safety was concerned, regulation is both adequate and needed.Part [...]
The Lion king’s epic journey from keyboards and cakes to CAPA Legend
Things could have turned out very differently for Rusdi Kirana, recipient of the CAPA Legends Award 2015 if he had listened to a official from the Transportation Ministry when he first applied for a licence to start Lion Air.The advice he got was to start a condom factory instead. “If I had listen [...]
The best of travel tech: Bag tags and movie downloads
Technological advancement in travel doesn’t always come encased in a shiny new device. Take the humble luggage tag: essential yet largely unchanged since the advent of mass air transit. Recent increases in self-service check-ins and untrained hands handling sticky baggage tags can complicate matte [...]
Future Travel expo reveals ‘magical customer moments’
Imagine effortless travel, aided by technology that anticipates, aggregates and pushes relevant information at the right time. This was the vision presented by a panel of speakers at the Future Travel Experience expo in Singapore this week. According to panelists, technology is not the barrier: i [...]
Winners at Phocuswright’s Travel Innovation Summit
Travel industry research authority, Phocuswright, has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit, held on November 17 and 18, during The Phocuswright Conference in Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.Phocuswright said that each year, innovative companies were selected to demonstrate g [...]
My Take on Phocuswright’s Battleground
This is a guest article by Douglas Quinby, Vice President, Research at Phocuswright.For eight years Phocuswright's Travel Innovation Summit has assembled travel startups and more established companies to present their innovations to the industry and compete on stage at The Phocuswright Conference. T [...]
A modest proposal: travel technology dominance
This is a guest blog by Arnie Weissmann, editor in chief, Travel Weekly.The question that Singapore’s minister of foreign affairs put to attendees at the Web in Travel conference last week seemed a little silly: “How many of you are in the travel industry?”Every hand went up.And the followup s [...]
How Stone saw the light and decided to bring it home to Uluru
“There’s something in today’s society that draws people to personal experiences more,” says Ray Stone as he explains why creating experiences such as the “Field of Light” exhibition in Australia’s most sacred place are key to drawing in more visitors to destinations.It was four years a [...]
For Asia, the real story is only just beginning
Richie is a 27-year-old orang utan living in the Semenggoh Wildlife Reserve of Sarawak. Philip Yong, CEO of Borneo Adventure, found him living in a cage as a baby, paid to free him and now he’s hanging out at the sanctuary, which rehabilitates apes and returns them to the wild.Obviously Richie is [...]
