TravelTainment shows off its iPad app
Bringing existing search and booking to the Apple iPad has seemingly opened up a world of opportunity to simply improve the user experience.In fact, if the search and booking experience was better, travel websites would perhaps have better conversion rates. That's the wider argument.So the iPad is t [...]
Travel never looked so mobile – APAC takes lead
Online travel never looked so mobile, especially in Asia Pacific with more than 20% of travel bookings made on a mobile device, compared with Brazil and Germany with less than 10%. The Travel Flash Report from Criteo, the performance advertising technology company, represents the activity of more [...]
The Wrap: Habits of Malaysian online shoppers unveiled
In the news this week: Habits of Malaysian online shoppers, international tourists up for H1 2014, specialist training for Etihad Airways' trainee butlers Habits of Malaysian online shoppers unveiledMost Malaysians are shopaholics, and shopping is a national pastime for them. In fact, the country ha [...]
Pegasus launches booking solutions for online and mobile
Pegasus Solutions has launched two new solutions - RezView Internet Booking Engine and RezView Mobile – to meet the growing trend among travellers to book hotels online and via mobile devices.According to PhoCusWright, one in three global travellers will book online by 2012, with supplier website [...]
Mobile – who wins? Suppliers or intermediaries?
You can tell that mobile is going to be the next battleground to win the customer.At the China Travel Distribution Summit, Gerry Samuels, founder and CEO of Mobile Travel Technologies, said travel suppliers were taking an increasingly aggressive stance on mobile as they see it as an opportunity to [...]
How to play the mobile game in 2011
A new year simply wouldn’t be complete without top ten lists, countdowns and predictions for the year to come. In that spirit, I’ve put together five predictions for mobile in 2011, and offered some pointers and potential next steps.1. Tablets – The hits will just keep on comingThe Apple iPad [...]
iSpeedy application gets a major upgrade
Amadeus and Speedy Travel continue their successful partnership as the innovative online agency releases the latest evolution of its iSpeedy Travel application. The new developments include an iSpeedy social networking function, which introduces extensive connectivity with social media allowing for [...]
Smartphones, tablets driving up digital traffic in the US
comScore has released a report, "Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Consumption Habits", that shows these devices are changing US digital media consumption habits.The report analyses how cross-platform consumption has created a vastly [...]
Tablets could revolutionise travel agencies; every frontliner should have one
The mobile revolution and the tablet could enable traditional travel agents to make up for whatever ground they may have lost when the travel business went online.
Indeed, Robert Bailey, president and CEO of Abacus International, said just as tablet devices are revolutionizing the way we work, [...]
The difference between a truly mobile app and one that is merely mobile
Last time I blogged (or was it the time before) I mentioned briefly the subject of mobile applications. I think I said then that a mobile application could (probably) be much more than an application built for the Apple’s IOS platform or the increasingly dominant Android stage or something that [...]
