How America needs to engage with the Chinese traveller
As a growing number of Chinese travel abroad for business and leisure, competition to lure mainland travelers is also heating up and one person who's seen the market evolve first hand is Delta Airlines’ Director & Chief Representative of China & Hong Kong, Sandeep Bahl (left).From his offi [...]
New Abacus, Net Trans tie-up takes pain out of hotel commissions
A new tie-up between Abacus and Net Trans may see travel agencies in Asia increase their revenues from hotel commissions between 30-50% within a year.The new agreement offers travel agencies a total solution for the collection, recovery and reconciliation of hotel commissions. Travel agencies that [...]
ITB Asia 2010 Attracts 30% New Exhibitors
ITB Asia has returned quickly to strong growth with floor space sales up markedly compared to same time last year. Over 30% of exhibitors are new participants at the show which is in its third year.Guangdong Tourism Authority, Bhutan Department of Tourism, the Moscow Exhibition and Convention Agency [...]
eRevMax expands in Asia
eRevMax, pioneer in the field of online benchmarking and channel management for the hospitality industry, is expanding in the Asia Pacific region.The company plans to further increase its global presence by more aggressively distributing RateTiger and SimpleDistribution in Singapore, Thailand, Malay [...]
Dangerous Festivals, here I come
A few days ago, as reported in WIT, NileGuide announced their new ‘events’ functionality for their already great website. I test drove the NileGuide website before here.As soon as I was on the site I immediately felt ‘at home’. Although I haven’t used the site a lot, my experiences so [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: 10 things I’d like WIT to address this year
I attended my first WIT in 2008, where we introduced our company, Circos Brand Karma, to the Asia Pacific travel market. I am looking forward to taking part again this year, both as a speaker and delegate. Here's what I want to learn.1. What can we do together to ensure the romance of travel is alwa [...]
Would you risk showing TripAdvisor’s opinions on your home page?
I have many friends who always go on TripAdvisor to check out the reviews of a given hotel, prior to making a booking. And when I listen to them recite comments on a given place, based on the reviews they read, I can't but help think what is the purpose behind some of these reviews. I guess I'm a [...]
Zicasso on the hunt for luxury travel specialists in Asia
A US-based online luxury travel referral service is out in the market in Asia/Pacific looking for retailers who want to focus on selling luxury custom tours, and also for inbound agents and tour operators who are interested in capturing a portion of the large US luxury market. “We are looking for [...]
Zinc comes in with a different kind of hotel play
There’s a new hospitality player in town and it intends to make waves. Nothing new about that, you might say. After all, why start something new when you don’t intend it to count for something – but this one has an interesting story.The new company is called Zinc I InVision Hospitality, the r [...]
ZUJI sees bookings double from this year’s NATAS fair
Holiday bookings have more than doubled compared to last year’s NATAS (National Association of Travel Agents) Travel Fair over the same period onzuji.com.sg, according to the OTA.From every aspect of short, mid and long haul, the OTA, which is offering post-NATAS deals on its site following the [...]
