SiteMinder sees doubling in booking revenues
SiteMinder's distribution platform delivered its growing list of global hotel customers using the platform just over USD$2 billion dollars in booking revenue from online channels in the 12 months to June 30, 2012 – double the figure from the previous financial year.The revenue was generated by a [...]
New solution to give hotels direct control over allotments and inventory
A Malaysian company has developed the Hotel Allotment System (HAS) which promises to give hotels direct control over their room inventory management.The system, operating from a single platform, allows hoteliers to streamline multiple sales channels including their OTAs and wholesalers by centralisi [...]
Online travel service Valadoo flying high
Business has been good for the new Indonesia start-up, Valadoo, which reported a 300% increase in order inquiries in Q2 2012 and 500% growth in sales in the past three months. "The growth of our business has been phenomenal. We started this business to encourage people to travel more and enjoy t [...]
Internet savvy Arab travellers going online to shop
With growing confidence in ecommerce sites and the safety of web-based transactions, travellers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are rapidly changing the way in which they purchase their flights and hotel nights.Wego is seeing UAE travellers taking control of their own itineraries as they realise [...]
Newism – and why that spells heaven or hell from brands
Newism - and why that spells heaven or hell from brandsNewism … And why that spells heaven or hell from Brands.That’s how the people at Trend watching title their latest trend briefing. They define it as:The ‘new’ has never been hotter, as the entire world, from emerging to mature ec [...]
People Power: How to be a talent magnet in the travel industry
Hot on the heels of our WITNext Summercamp, we asked David Brett, President, Amadeus Asia Pacific to share his views on how travel companies can attract and retain talent. A person who is attracted to a career in the travel industry is surely an adventurer. Naturally inquisitive, they want to trav [...]
Airline Cloud9 to bridge airlines and changing customers
From Japan to China to India, online travel is experiencing a boom throughout Asia Pacific. PhoCusWright estimates that the total travel market in Asia Pacific in 2012 will be worth USD294 billion and of this, the online travel market will account for USD70.6 billion.In Japan, amid a declining tra [...]
Online Review and Reputation Management Trends for Hotels
The use of online reviews and social media has reached an unprecedented level of adoption within the hotel industry – becoming nearly universally embraced by hotel executives in Asia and around the world as a key source of customer insight, a tool to achieve operational and service excellence, an [...]
ITB Asia 2012’s sold out
ITB Asia 2012 is completely sold out following the close of exhibitor applications in May, five months ahead of the event."Each year the show gets bigger and better. We increased capacity by 20% after a record performance in 2011, and with five months to go until ITB Asia 2012 we’ve not only fil [...]
Burufly packs curated content and social sharing to fly in Indonesia
Burufly, a new Indonesian travel start-up launched yesterday, wants to make it easy for everyone to plan their next holiday in Indonesia – and that means going beyond Bali. Founder Pete Goldsworthy shares the business case.Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
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