MAS to sweat it out to revive fortune
Beleaguered Malaysia Airlines, bogged down by its biggest ever net loss of RM2.5 billion last year, has delayed its profitability target by a year - from 2013 to 2014 - and will focus on an aggressive revenue boosting campaign while striving to keep cost down.Its group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (p [...]
How the top travel websites performed in May
Expedia Singapore rules as the top online travel agency in Singapore for May, while Jipiao.trip.taobao.comleads the pack in Hong Kong and Wotif.com maintains the top spot in Australia.Below is a summary of how the regions’s top travel websties performed for May according to data from Experian Hit [...]
Webb tips something “big and good” from Red App Centre, sees Asia at inflexion point
Greg Webb, president of Sabre Travel Network, believes “something big and good” will come out of the Sabre Red App Centre, its B2B marketplace which is open for developers to develop apps and sell them to its travel agents.Since its launch, it’s had 1,000 app downloads from 42 countries and m [...]
Fogel: OTAs are about more than price and it’s a myth that hotels do not like us
Ahead of his participation in the 2012 China Travel Distribution Summit to be held on 12-13 September in Shanghai, Glenn D. Fogel, Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning for Priceline, shares with Travel Daily China the group’s plans for Asia Pacific and his take of the future landscape of onli [...]
New gen South-east Asians redefining travel to Australia
A new generation of South-east Asians travelling to Australia is effectively redefining the market, according to a poll commissioned by leading Asia/Pacific travel metasearch site,Wego.com.The study revealed that traditional group travel is in decline and Singaporean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vi [...]
The world of short-term rentals, flash sales and chicken wing optimisation
In China, you do whatever works – even if it’s “chicken wing optimization”. Yeoh Siew Hoon follows the discussion on travel opportunities at Echelon 2012, which was focused on flash sales and the short-term rental space.It was good to run into so many travel friends at Echelon 2012, Asia� [...]
Qantas bites the bullet, aims to be back in black by 2014
Embattled Australian flag carrier Qantas is to split its international and domestic arms into separate businesses and will expand partnerships with worldwide airlines to bring it back to profitability by 2014.Stephen Thompson, Qantas' executive manager global sales (pictured left), speaking at t [...]
India, the next big thing for Australia
Australia is pinning high hopes on India to boost its visitor arrival numbers in a new tourism strategy – “The India 2020 Strategic Plan” – from 148,200 in 2011 to 300,000 by plan’s end. Pictured above L-R: Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson, Tourism Australia's Francess-Anne K [...]
Priceline’s fleet of fighter jets continues to soar
At more than 425,000 room nights booked a day, of which 325,000 come fromBooking.com, you’d be forgiven for likening the Priceline Group to an A380 but Adrian Currie prefers to think of it as a fleet of fighter jets, each winging its own way to success. Currie, Priceline Group Board Management M [...]
Rate parity is biggest dilemma for hoteliers
A new study by Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and RateTiger reveals rate parity is the dominant factor affecting hotels’ distribution and revenue strategies today.This has also resulted in hotels neglecting the fundamentals of revenue management but has also opened their eyes to alternative distr [...]
