Move over, you old thing – make way for the new
Either I am losing it or I am travelling too much. The night before my flight to Shanghai, I thought I should check on my flight time. Turned out I had booked the 01.15 flight thinking it was 1.15pm.Panic ensued. This meant I had roughly five hours to get ready instead of 17 hours. What did I do? I [...]
myALN fuses Jetsetter and Tablet models to go after luxury travel in China
Trying to carve out a slice of the luxury travel market in China is private sale site myALN (Affordable Luxury Network) started by four former college room-mates from Harvard.“Online players in the luxury travel space are non-existent in China,” said CEO & co-founder Frank Lin. “Yet it� [...]
WITNext: Pigeonhole Live to make debut on June 1 event
In the spirit of nurturing start-ups, WITNext on June 1 will be trying out a new conference service started by two National University of Singapore graduates.Pigeonhole Live, described as “the world’s simplest real-time conference Q&A tool on the mobile, enables questions and comments to be [...]
New records set in hotel bookings in November
Both the corporate and leisure travel sectors set 2010 growth records over 2009 in November, according to new data released in The Pegasus View.The report by Pegasus Solutions shows booking volumes through the mostly business global distribution systems (GDS) climbed +30.6%. Additionally, revenue fo [...]
NileGuide.com buys 10Best.com
Following its recent acquisition of travel Q & A site Localyte.com, global travel content publisher NileGuide.com today announced the acquisition of travel recommendation site 10Best.com for an undisclosed amount.The 10best.com acquisition from Enveritas Group, Inc. solidifies NileGuide as [...]
Online shopping a fad among Internet users in Asia Pacific
A love for the latest clothes and beauty products is driving internet users in six emerging eCommerce markets in Asia Pacific to seek their fashion fixes on overseas shopping websites, according to the 2010 Visa eCommerce Consumer Monitor.Most popular among shoppers in six emerging eCommerce markets [...]
Gong launches Impulse Flyer, membership flash sale site for luxury, boutique hotels
Steven Gong, formerly of Wego and Circos Brand Karma, has pre-launched his own startup, Impulse Flyer.Billed as an exclusive, luxury & boutique hotel-specific flash sale site for the Asia Pacific region, the site aims to help members in three easy steps – “exclusively notify, stunningly ins [...]
HED Flocations maps a new approach to flight booking
When Singapore Airlines relaunched its website in May, it unveiled a slick, Web 2.0-inspired user interface. Users almost immediately revolted against the new interface, its attendant bugs and various crashes, culminating in a public apology for the new website by the airlines' chief executive i [...]
Here comes Lady Branson in red
If you have always wanted to get up close and personal with the Richard Branson, then AirAsia is offering you the chance to do it on 1 May when he will don the distinctive red AirAsia female flight attendant uniform and serve passengers on an AirAsia X’s London-Kuala Lumpur flight.Branson has to d [...]
Hotels: Predictions & Reflections, Part 1
It was the year in which social media rose to the top of the agenda for hoteliers. What will it be in 2011? Part 1 of our hospitality experts' predictions and reflections.Patrick Andres, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Sabre Hospitality SolutionsQ: What are the three things you think will happen in th [...]
