Asia takes Google-ITA news in its stride
While the travel world has gone berserk over today's announcement that Google has bought ITA Software and speculating what this means for air fare search in particular, players in Asia seem to be taking it in their stride. (See the expert analysis in TNooz)Perhaps it’s the knowledge that ITA Sof [...]
Find your path as you walk, says Chong
Don’t fret if you still don’t know what you want to do – just find your path as you walk. That was the advice from Chong Phit Lian, CEO of Jetstar Asia, when she spoke to students and interns attending our WIT*e – Inspiration & Mentoring event at The Fairmont Singapore last week.Chong s [...]
The way to an Asian flyer’s heart is through his stomach
On Monday, I zipped up to Kuala Lumpur for a tour of the AirAsia Academy. The flight was full despite it being mid-morning. I thought back to the dark – and expensive – days before low cost airlines were allowed to fly the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore route and how we consumers had only two carriers t [...]
Chinese hunger for travel grows
The Chinese appetite for travel is on the rise, American desire to venture on longhaul trips remains dampened while the travel habits of Europeans will remain predictable. Such are the findings of the World Travel Trends Report 2010 by researchers IPK International, which was commissioned by Messe [...]
Haystack out to find the true needle in search
A solution that helps airlines make more money? A solution that takes into account what a customer wants instead of forcing the user to conform to GDS-enforced logic? A solution that will aggregate fragmented content – combining GDS and non-GDS content – in one single environment?Sounds too good [...]
Cambodia Angkor Air banks on Sabre to grow
Cambodia Angkor Air, one of Southeast Asia’s newest airlines, has migrated onto the SabreSonic Customer Sales and Service (CSS) solution to underpin its expansion plans.The airline, in operation since July 2009, is the national flag carrier of Cambodia and is owned by the Cambodian government and [...]
99 baht. Too good to be true? It’s true and it’s buzzing
Everyone’s throwing out deals in Thailand these days. From Anantara’s “Sawasdee! We’ve Missed You” campaign which offers up to 40% off best available rate to Accor’s Cashback promotion giving travellers money in return for nights spent.But one campaign seems to have set more tongues wagg [...]
Airlines fly high on ancillary revenues
Findings from IdeaWorks and Amadeus show ithe airline industry’s ancillary revenue tidal wave continued in 2009 with more carriers disclosing millions – and billions – in ancillary receipts in financial reports. Revenues in 2009 jumped 43% to 11 billion Euros (US$13.5 billion), reflecting n [...]
NileGuide launches event listings and interactive map
NileGuide, the one-stop travel planning website, launched international events listings last Thursday, with coverage across the world’s top destinations.With filtering tools enabling users to find event recommendations based on preference (like outdoors, kid-friendly, or sports), date range, and o [...]
How travel opened my door to new worlds
If anyone were to wake me up in the middle of the night and asked me what was my passion, my response would be, without a doubt, travel.When I was five years old, my family moved from what was then Yugoslavia (now I'm Slovenian) to India where my father had been transferred.I spent my next six forma [...]
