Indonesia, APAC lead global surge in Twitter usage
In June, nearly 93 million Internet users visited Twitter.com, an increase of 109% from the previous year, as the social networking site achieved strong gains across all global regions, according to a comScore study.Indonesia reported the highest penetration, with 20.8% of Internet users in the co [...]
Convergence key to efficiency reveals Abacus in corporate travel poll
The latest Corporate Travel Practices Survey from echnology solution provider, Abacus, uncovered a series of structural and behavioural issues that, if addressed, could dramatically improve the efficiency of the managed travel sector.The survey, which represented the views of 82 of the region’s to [...]
The Wrap: BCD Travel’s new Mumbai business centre to help drive growth
In the news this week: BCD’s new business centre in Mumbai, Accor’s first hotel in Myanmar, Mongolia’s official partner for ITB Berlin 2015, Fairmont’s love storiesBCD’s new Mumbai business centre to help drive growthGlobal corporate travel management company, BCD Travel, is set to drive i [...]
WIT Day One – Cross-firing on the C-Spot
Web in Travel 2010 opened on a blistering note with two teams – The Glee Team and The A Team - competing with each other to come up with the best customer insights that would drive change in travel distribution and marketing.The Glee Team comprised Ram Badrinathan, General Manager - Asia Pacific, [...]
WIT Day One – Finding your parents and WITcubator
One new aspect of WIT this year has been the THack. THack is Tnooz’s unique event which brings together travel industry APIs and the development community to brainstorm and create new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools.Largely going on out of the spotlight, the THack took [...]
WIT Day One – Japan revealed
The “Land of the Rising Sun” is one travel market that many want to tap and cultivate. But it is not an easy one to tap. Some insights into the market and the changing Japanese customers were revealed at the WIT Conference in the session, “My Name is Yuki-san, I Love to Travel”.Pictured left [...]
WIT Day One – On The Move Part One
Session description: After years of anticipation and expectation, followed by deflation, that mobile would change things forever, has it finally arrived? In this first session on mobile, we look at it from the view of the customer and how it has, and could, change the experience of those on th [...]
WIT Day One – Siew Hoon headlines by asking “What’s your company Groove?”
The first panel at WIT this year was Siew Hoon discussing headlines with four panelists:Azran Osman Rani, CEO, AirAsiaXDhruv Shringi, CEO, Yatra, IndiaRod Cuthbert, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Viator IncRichard Wiegmann, Managing Director, Trust InternationalBefore discussing headlines Siew Hoo [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Bill Liu on the problems people are trying to solve
More entrepreneurs in Singapore are venturing into the interactive digital media space hoping to cash in on the growth of social media, observed William Liu, managing director of Stream Global, a venture catalyst.Liu, who will be one of the judges in the WIT Grand Finals Start-Up Pitch at the WIT C [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Bring down barriers, AirAsia X’s Azran implores
A level playing field and removal of protectionist and monopolistic barriers to encourage competition in both the aviation sector and in business, is the impassioned call of Azran Osman Rani (pictured left), chief executive officer of AirAsia X, Malaysia’s long-haul budget carrier.In implementing [...]
