Ctrip boosts tours and activities with BeMyGuest partnership
China’s largest OTA Ctrip has teamed up with Singapore-based tours and activities platform BeMyGuest to offer Ctrip customers access to the site’s 10,000-strong inventory, spread over 600 destinations across Asia. The partnership is achieved through integrating BeMyGuest’s API (Application Pro [...]
Stick to your “loyalty machines”, it’s a shark-eat-shark world out there
Amadeus’ distribution chief Holger Taubmann speaks to WIT about “loyalty machines”, Lufthansa’s Direct Connect strategy, RyanAir’s Amazonian ambitions, Accor Marketplace’s aspirations and swimming with the big sharks.For all the talk about direct distribution, and suppliers wanting to go [...]
Looking forward to WIT: Land that brand promise through experiences
Guest writer Carl Griffith is a design thinker, passionate about brand and marketing. He’s returning to WIT as a delegate after a couple of years’ absence.As I look forward to re-acquainting myself with WIT (I’ve not been for a few years), I’m reflecting on my previous involvement with the e [...]
Heritage Race heads to Bangkok to uncover local stories
The Heritage Race, which was run in Singapore in 2014 and 2015, will travel to Bangkok on November 29.A travel industry-led event created to uncover local stories about places and to raise funds for good causes, the Bangkok Heritage Race is organised by local travel industry volunteers and WIT, and [...]
The “reboot” of Alan Joyce and Qantas: How an Irish working class lad became high-flying executive
If ever there’s a reboot story, it is that of Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas, personally and how he led and engineered the biggest airline turnaround possibly in the history of aviation.During the CAPA Aviation Awards night in Helsinki, of which I was the emcee, Joyce picked up both the Airline Turnaro [...]
Letter to Jukka: The lost art of waiting and conversations
Finland’s always been on my list of places to visit. One main reason is that when I was about 10, I started a correspondence with a Finnish boy, which lasted a few years.Those were the days before you could just click and make a friend. I can’t quite recall how we met but I think it was from one [...]
The Wrap: AirAsia Japan taking a second shot, take-off in 2016
In the news: Second edition of AirAsia Japan, survey on youth travel by ITB Berlin, MyTeksi’s new safety featureAirAsia Japan taking a second shot, take-off in 2016When AirAsia’s joint venture with All Nippon Airways (ANA), then known as AirAsia Japan, ended in June 2013 Tan Sri Tony Fernandes [...]
Almaty eyes the future as an innovation and start-up hub
Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital, sits on the foothills of the Tian Shan mountain range, known for wild apples, seismic activity and – if the government has its way – an innovation hub.Home to just under 1.5 million inhabitants, this is the cultural and financial heart of the country. The c [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: There’s life beyond Angkor Wat
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: New marketing plan by six Greater Mekong Subregion countries, Hollywood star power for Emirates, debate on number of pilots in airlinesThere’s life beyond Angkor WatThe six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries - Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic R [...]
Brand Karma “reboots” to VR, TrustYou expands in Asia with new deal
The takeover of Brand Karma’s Online Reputation Management services by TrustYou is part of the Taiwan-based company’s “reboot” to become a leader in virtual reality content, said Morris Sim, CEO & co-founder.Under the agreement – terms were not disclosed – TrustYou will take over al [...]
