Stunning views and some good legal pointers on social media
Now, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that a presentation on ‘The Law and Social Media’ at a firm of lawyers in a CBD office might not be the most exciting part of Singapore’s Social Media Week … but, for this attendee, Lionel Tan’s presentation was one of the week’s highlights.Whilst [...]
Local OTAs rule in Japan
Online travel agencies (OTAs) lead all travel categories in terms of monthly unique visitors, attracting more than twice as many visitors as airline websites, the most popular supplier website category. According to PhoCusWright's Japan Online Travel Traffic Report (a Global and Asia Pacific Edi [...]
Making Social Media An Asset To Your Hotel, Part 1
The first in a series of articles by Brand Karma on Making Social Media an Asset to Your Hotel. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share our learnings on how social media can benefit the various departments and stakeholders at a hotel or hospitality firm, and present practical ideas for how it can [...]
Hotels in Malaysia jumping onto social media for engagement
With more than 12.2 million members on Facebook – that's a 47% penetration of its population – Malaysia is no laggard when it comes to embracing social media. Currently ranked at 17th place among Facebook countries, it is seeing fast growth – in the last month alone, numbers jumped by almost h [...]
Revenues jump 50% in MakeMyTrip’s fiscal third quarter
India’s leading OTA MakeMyTrip continues to post gains in revenues and profit. Here are the financial highlights of its unaudited financial and operating results for its fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011.Financial Highlights
• Revenue rose 50.3% (67.6% in constant currency) yoy to $53 [...]
Wego brings local travel search to Philippines
Asia's travel metasearch website, Wego, has launched a dedicated site for the Philippines - Wego Philippines – that enables travellers to find the cheapest flights and the best accommodation from across the market with just a few clicks online.The site says this will help travellers save hund [...]
Is the fun over? ‘This is the year of government regulation’
I left this morning's opening session of Social Media Week Singapore with the distinct feeling that we may have had our fun in the sun as far as social media is concerned and now it’s time for the parents to come spoil the party.With Twitter planning to allow country-specific censorship of twe [...]
Collaboration is key to the future of travel
Travel will become more collaborative in the next decade where travel providers and travellers will work together, says the report, “From Chaos to Collaboration”, developed by The Futures Company, a global foresight and futures consultancy, and commissioned by Amadeus.The report details th [...]
No money, can he survive in Singapore for 5 days on social media alone?
Can man live on social media alone? Well, one young man is about to find out if he can depend on the social web and the kindness of strangers to survive in Singapore for five days from February 9-15.Armed with just a Nokia Lumia 800 and 10 items in a survival pack, Martin (#CanManLondon), from Lond [...]
Fly in comfort with full row of seats on AirAsia X
Don’t like being assigned a middle seat on a long haul flight or sit next to a snoring passenger? AirAsia’s long haul low cost affiliate is making it possible for passengers to escape this "tight" situation with its new Empty Seat Option (ESo) that makes available three seats in a row in econom [...]
