IDeaS wants to be the AirAsia of revenue management
If everyone can fly with AirAsia, then every hotel can revenue manage, according to Brian Sterrett (left), vice president global sales and marketing of IDeaS, who is looking to the region to drive the company’s growth in the next few years.Sterrett, who attended the WIT Conference, said that IDeaS [...]
Change in an industry of blinding lights
The opening panel at last week's Asia Connect in Singapore, “The C-Spot: Customer, Chaos, Cloud – There's a new C in the air”, moderated by Web In Travel’s Yeoh Siew Hoon, featured Patrick Andres, VP Asia Pacific of Sabre Hospitality and Mario Jobbe, co-founder of Circos Brand Karma.To kick [...]
No wringing of hands and moaning as AirAsia soldiers on to post growth
Ours not to “wring our hands and moan” at the high fuel prices, ours “but to use our creativity” and so AirAsia gets on with it to post a growth in operating profit for the first quarter of 2011.Group CEO Tony Fernandes, said, “What is particularly significant for us is that our operating [...]
Ctrip pact to spur growth for Shangri-La, high end travel the one to watch
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts saw a 60% growth in business from Ctrip.com International in 2010 over 2009 across its entire portfolio. That was probably what spurred the Hong Kong-based brand to sign a “distribution co-operation agreement” with China’s leading online travel agency in antici [...]
Don’t be overwhelmed, Mr Travel Agent – conquer post-booking space first
With so much happening in the mobile space, it is easy for travel agents to be overwhelmed and get confused about what they should do in this space.Well, the advice from Brett Henry, vice president-marketing, Abacus International and vice president India, is “conquer the post-booking space first� [...]
eRevMax buys web services agency
Continuing on its acquisition path, eRevMax International, owner of channel management technologies RateTiger and SimpleDistribution have acquired Lunar Logic Polska, a web and digital development services company.Lunar Logic Polska's expertise in web development and internet applications will help [...]
eRevMax in talks for two more acquisitions, expands in Asia
eRevMax International, which recently made two acquisitions – Lunar Logic Polska and SimpleDistribution – is in talks for two further acquisitions even as it expands in Asia, CEO Sascha Hausmann told WIT.“One is services related and is in contract stage and another one is product related and w [...]
eRevMax launches RT Suite Review
eRevMax, creator of RateTiger, has announced the launch of its latest product RTSuite Review, an online guest review consolidator for hotels. The new platform enables hotels to manage their brand reputation and interact directly with guests across multiple hotel review sites. RTSuite Review will [...]
Planet Travel thanks you, Steve Jobs
In the wee hours of this morning, I was inspired to write a column about how, to me, the iPad’s been the best thing to happen to travel in a long time. A few hours later, I woke up to an Apple home page that showed a black-and-white photo of Steve Jobs.My throat clenched. My heart sank. For a mome [...]
Find your groove in a time of oh-too-fast change
It’s got to be one of the most exciting times to be in the travel industry yet possibly the most terrifying.Martin Symes, CEO of Wego, said as much when I asked him the question during our panel on “Understanding the new Asian traveler”, yesterday at ITB Berlin.“Yes it’s exciting but it’ [...]
