Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
The Wrap: Regent introduces new digital platform for global travellers
The weekly news roundup: Regent’s revamped website, Sabre’s hospitality solution & Tripcase integrate, December opening for iconic The Warehouse Hotel
HOSPITALITY: Regent introduces new digital platform for global travellers
Regent Hotels and Resorts has launched its rejuvenated we [...]
AccorHotels plays into co-living space with new brand JO&JOE
AccorHotels has launched a new brand, JO&JOE, "designed to meet the expectations of millennials and all those who value sharing, spontaneity and experience.”
The hotel group describes the new brand as "a vibrant living space" and "one that "was co-constructed with its future guests and disr [...]
Two years on, here’s why Oracle bought Micros Systems – a new Hospitality Cloud
Two years after Oracle bought Micros Systems in June 2014, the buyer is finally ready to launch what it calls its game-changing Oracle Hospitality suite of solutions, revolving around a new dedicated Oracle Hospitality Cloud, within the Oracle V2 Infrastructure.
It’s clear the integration of MI [...]
Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
TNS Connected Life 2016 study: Instagram and Snapchat on the rise in APAC
TNS Connected Life 2016, a recent global study surveying the online behaviours of approximately 70,000 internet users across 57 countries revealed that the use of visual social media platforms, Instagram and Snapchat, has risen sharply across APAC.
It comes as no surprise as APAC sees over a bill [...]
Why travel needs to go cross-device
This is a guest blog by Russell Young, managing director, Asia Pacific, Sojern
Strategy Analytics estimates that by 2020, there will be 33 billion (yes, billion) connected devices worldwide. This means that every man, woman and child will have 4.3 devices each. People are already searching and bo [...]
Sabre charts transformation of APAC travel technology at TTX
The 500+ participants at Sabre’s inaugural Asia Pacific Travel Technology Exchange (TTX) in Beijing last week were given an insight into the big trends and developments impacting travel and technology in Asia Pacific.
Sabre executives and guest speakers took to the stage to highlight the chan [...]
The Millennial Traveller: From content veteran to tech startup, how Insight Guides is reimagining its role in travel
Travel research and inspiration before the digital age never involved a hashtag or a geotag on your phone. It involved browsing the Travel Literature section of bookstores, flipping through pages of destination magazines… or picking your next destination by spinning a globe and seeing where your f [...]
BeMyGuest partners with Yatra to tap Indian outbound market
Asian-focused travel activities/tours online booking platform, BeMyGuest, and Indian OTA Yatra.com have formed an activities and tours partnership.
With this deal Yatra.com has gone live with the integration of BeMyGuest’s API for attraction tickets, activities and tours for both its website an [...]
