The more travel consolidates, the more freedom for differentiation
No sooner had I uttered the word “consolidation” then another piece of news arrived in my inbox. This time, Sabre Hospitality Solutions buying the Trust Group of companies which include Trust International, Nexus and InnLink for US$154 million.The deal, to be finalised early next year, immediate [...]
Peach wants to be Muji or Uniqlo of airlines as it champions Japan inbound
Peach CEO Shinichi Inoue wants his airline to become the Muji or Uniqlo of aviation. Accepting the Low Cost Airline of the Year award at the CAPA Asian Aviation Summit on Monday night, Inoue said with those two brands, you don’t think of them as where they come from but as global household names.T [...]
Fly around the world virtually with Flight Centre
Flight Centre Singapore is offering its customers the chance to immerse and transport themselves to a destination of their choice in-store with the launch of the Virtual Reality (VR) experience at its headquarters.The VR experience starts with three destinations –Hoi An in Vietnam, Tokyo in Japan [...]
LCCs in North Asia hampered by archaic airport regulations
Airport regulations are ‘archaic’ and ‘limiting’, said low-cost carrier (LCC) panelists at the CAPA Asia Aviation Summit 2015 in Singapore this week.Speakers at the North Asian LCC panel slammed over-regulation, although where safety was concerned, regulation is both adequate and needed.Part [...]
The Wrap: The best of ASEAN in an e-book
In the news: An e-book on Asean top tourist attractions, Kaligo’s iPhone app, Expedia Singapore’s new loyalty programme, enhanced services on Scoot’s Dreamliner fleet The best of ASEAN in an e-bookFollowing closely on the heels of the formation of the ASEAN Community the region’s national to [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Phoning It In
A recent report published by eMarketer has estimated that booking trips via mobile device will be an increasingly popular method for US travellers. Specifically, the report predicts that of those that book online, 51.8% of individuals will do so on their phones, marking a 43.8% increase from this ye [...]
The Lion king’s epic journey from keyboards and cakes to CAPA Legend
Things could have turned out very differently for Rusdi Kirana, recipient of the CAPA Legends Award 2015 if he had listened to a official from the Transportation Ministry when he first applied for a licence to start Lion Air.The advice he got was to start a condom factory instead. “If I had listen [...]
Sabre buys Trust Group to boost leadership in hospitality
Consolidation continues – Sabre Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Trust Group of Companies which include Trust International, InnLink and Nexus.“Acquiring the Trust Group is consistent with our stated goal of building on Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ global lead [...]
GeoTourist wants to walk with you
Shaon Talukder, a young technorepreneur from London, knows how to pitch. When I first met him at the WIT 2015 conference, he raised an interesting question: what if your business idea puts others out of work? Not that GeoTourist, a location-based social media platform has any dark ambitions. In fact [...]
The best of travel tech: Bag tags and movie downloads
Technological advancement in travel doesn’t always come encased in a shiny new device. Take the humble luggage tag: essential yet largely unchanged since the advent of mass air transit. Recent increases in self-service check-ins and untrained hands handling sticky baggage tags can complicate matte [...]
