How to engage with India’s tech-savvy travellers
This is a guest blog by Carolyn Childs, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, on how responsive mobile-ready websites are vital for India, a country where all age groups don't bat an eyelid using smartphones to research and book travel.During Australia Business Week in India in January our delegation [...]
THE LIST: Hotels hand-picked for the time-poor and impatient jetsetter
How often are you asked by your friends for hotel recommendations? Too often, if you are frequent travellers like Trey Shores and Kei Shibata, which is why the two have teamed up to launch THE LIST, a collection of hand-picked hotels that they believe will suit the tastes of like-minded travellers.T [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Paradise Lost
Going to Bali every Christmas was always an annual highlight in my family. We knew exactly what we were in for - which restaurants we needed to visit, how many days we wanted to dedicate to shopping versus beaching ourselves on the sand, and of course, how many fresh mangoes we were shipping home.Wh [...]
WIT Start-Up Pitch: TraveDoc wants to be the Uber of doctors
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraphTraveDoc is the online doctor appointment scheduling service for people living and traveling in a new country. Fast, easy and free, TraveDoc lets you choose and schedule an appointment with a great physician, dentist, or specialist [...]
Approach it like you’re the customer – Emirates holds first Hackathon briefing for NUS students
It’s difficult not to marvel at the growth of Emirates Airlines. In just 30 years – the airline was formed in 1985 – it’s grown into an entity that’s flying 45 million travellers a year from a home airport in Dubai that now sees 1,300 aircraft movements day.Sanjay Sharma, head of IT Innova [...]
The Wrap: Myanmar gets its first e-commerce payment platform
In the news: e-commerce payment platform for Myanmar, Travelport partners BeMyGuest, 7% passenger growth for AirAsia in FY2014Myanmar gets its first e-commerce payment platformMyanmar citizens, who hold payment cards issued by Myanmar Payment Union (MPU), which authorises the issuance and acceptance [...]
Letter from Penang: Meet the new digital hippies out to create the island’s future
In my interview with the Straits Times of Singapore last month, I told the reporter that it was the hippies who first inspired me to get into travel. I would see them wandering round the streets with a certain smile on their face, and I wanted to be like them.I thought the smile was from happiness, [...]
With 75% ownership, Expedia firmly in driving seat in Asia
When Expedia and AirAsia formed their 50/50 joint venture in 2011, they called it a “happy marriage”. Well, we guess now it can be called a happier marriage because with today’s announcement that Expedia has increased its stake in AAE Travel to 75%, both parties do end up happier as a result.A [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The Tinder Trap
A close friend recently asked me how I felt about Singapore’s dating pool. As a prospective newcomer to the city, he held a rightful amount of curiosity paired with a subtle dose of concern. Given this technological age, we’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to organically meet someone in the [...]
The five elephants in India’s tourism closet
This is a guest blog by Carolyn Childs, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism and aviation industries.Promoting India is as much about clearing barriers as it is about inspiring people. So for India to maximise the benefits of to [...]
