Start-up stars at my first WIT Bootcamp
Maggie Rauch, senior research analyst, PhoCusWright, was at today's Bootcamp held in conjunction with WIT Japan and she came away impressed. Here's her account.Today’s competitors at WIT Japan’s Start-Up Pitch, held as part of the Bootcamp, were impressively bold, creative, and well prepared to [...]
The Wrap: M’sian PM calls for promotion of Asean as a single tourist destinaton
In the news: GOASEAN launched, Ingresso app plugin for Travelport, TripAdvisor’s Travellers' Choice Landmarks M'sian PM calls for promotion of Asean as a single tourist destinationThe 10 Asean countries should make a collective effort to promote the region as a single tourist destination, is the c [...]
Air China sets its sight on top level personalisation
You log on to an airline website, search for a fare, and abandon the site. You log in again – so how well the website knows you to support you from where you left?It’s a critical question as airlines are refining their merchandising strategy in order to differentiate their product. There is talk [...]
Travelport opens its Labs Incubator to help develop travel start-ups
Travelport has developed a seed stage investment and mentorship programme to accelerate the growth of start-up companies focused on travel commerce.
The Incubation programme will run in four-month-cycles with four start-ups accepted for each cycle. Mentors will be in-house Travelport experts [...]
Lufthansa to charge consumers and agents extra for not booking direct, Amadeus responds
Lufthansa Group announced today that beginning September 1 it will charge consumers and travel agents an extra $17.80 (16 euros) per ticket for flights booked beyond Lufthansa Group websites, service centers and airport ticket counters.
In light of this announcement, Amadeus has responded to Luf [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Strong reactions follow Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings, stay-at-home holidays for Brits, habits of China’s super travellers revealed.
Strong reactions follow Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings
Reactions followed swiftly after Lufthansa announced a levy [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Beyond city limits, parallels between Perth and Singapore
From a tourist’s perspective, it seems both Singapore’s and Western Australia’s tourism industries are beginning to make a conscious and strategic effort to battle past public perceptions as, most simply put, one-dimensional business destinations.
Singapore and Perth, Australia could be (an [...]
Letter from Tokyo: So much easier to enjoy, and things are just getting started
Arrived in Tokyo Monday morning on the Japan Airlines red-eye from Singapore. There’s a lot to be said when travelling to a foreign country on their home carrier – it prepares you for the destination.
We spend a lot of time lambasting national carriers and how wasteful and inefficient they ar [...]
“Technically bankrupt” Malaysia Airlines to break even by 2018 with operation recovery
An industry friend commented when Christoph Mueller was appointed to take over the troubled Malaysia Airlines (MAS), and to set it on the path to profitabilty that it “would take a brave, brave man to lift an airline that has fallen so far down to fly high again”.
But then again Mueller is no [...]
It was as if I were there: How I embraced virtual reality in travel
Immersive marketing is now a thing. I first heard of it when HBO employed the hottest tech gadget - Oculus Rift - at SXSW last year to market the popular TV show, Game of Thrones.
Don a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and conference-goers could get a taste of life as a member of the Night� [...]
