Fast food makes us fat, tech makes us shitty, let’s take a detour, says Groupon’s founder Mason
Holiday times are good for epiphanies and Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon, had his during a one-month break in South-east Asia after he left the company he founded.During the break, he found his attention span returned. “I had built up this complete addiction to technology without knowing it and [...]
New bucks, young faces, barefoot rebels – all changing hospitality
The morning Steve Rowley (pictured left), chairman of IHS, took to the stage at the WIT Conference, he had just broken the news to his employees that the group was in negotiations to buy fastbooking.com.While he couldn’t disclose details during his time onstage, he did say it was part of IHS’ pl [...]
CheckMate partners with global travel brands on its Guest Engagement Platform
CheckMate has launched its Guest Engagement Platform with several travel partners including Expedia, Kayak, Travelocity, Orbitz, TripCase, and Concur to accelerate mobile hotel check In and strengthen customer relationships.The company said that with its platform, travel distributors could strengthe [...]
Phocuswright Announces the Next Generation of Groundbreaking Travel Innovators
Travel industry research authority Phocuswright Inc. has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit, held on Nov. 11, the first day of The Phocuswright Conference currently underway in Los Angeles, Calif. Each year, 32 innovators are selected to demonstrate groundbreaking applicatio [...]
The View from Students: Don’t be afraid to make changes and take ownership of challenges
As part of our WITNext outreach to inspire and mentor young talent, we opened our events to tourism and hospitality students from the UNLV (University of Las Vegas). This is a summary by Jan Lim on The Challengers' panel on Day 1 of the WIT 2014 Conference on Oct 28.How does one infiltrate into tr [...]
Letter from LA: Get past the airport and everything’s just dandy
So first let’s get the grumpy part over with – LA is the worst airport in the world. No surprises there because almost everyone agrees with that.The immigration officer attending to me (or rather my passport) because he didn’t look at me the entire transaction had all the appearance of someone [...]
The Wrap: Airports investing in IT to get ready for the “connected traveller”
In the news: Airports investing for the "connected traveller", 7 million landmark number for Tune Hotels, meetings trends in 2015 from CWT Meetings & EventsAirports investing in IT to get ready for the connected travellerAirports around the world rank improving passenger processes as the number [...]
Hotels need to sort few issues to optimise their ties with meta-search
Hotel organisations are grappling with issues when it comes to making the most of their relationship with meta-search engines. And these aren’t just related to competing with OTAs.Are hotel organisations astutely capitalising on the increasing prowess of meta-search in the battle to garner the att [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Prepare To Be Surprised
I can’t count how many times I’ve been warned off travelling to certain places. South Africa is too dangerous, all of the Middle East is a warzone, Paris is ‘so overrated’, there’s nothing to do in Amsterdam beyond getting high and visiting the Anne Frank and sex museum in the same afterno [...]
Rome2rio brings door-to-door planning to Concur’s open platform
Rome2rio has entered into a partnership with Concur, the world’s leading provider of spend management solutions and services, to bring Rome2rio’s journey planning solutions to Concur users worldwide.With this partnership, Concur customers will be able to plan a complete door-to-door trip with Ro [...]
