The Wrap: BCD Travel’s new Mumbai business centre to help drive growth
In the news this week: BCD’s new business centre in Mumbai, Accor’s first hotel in Myanmar, Mongolia’s official partner for ITB Berlin 2015, Fairmont’s love storiesBCD’s new Mumbai business centre to help drive growthGlobal corporate travel management company, BCD Travel, is set to drive i [...]
Social media as whinge outlets and the pool with Brag Plus Factor …
I was having lunch with a hotelier this week when our conversation turned to social media and tools such as Local Measure which allows businesses like hotels to pick up location-based chatter among guests. The idea is then to surprise customers with something unexpected or to pre-empt complaints. (W [...]
HotelQuickly is now in Myanmar and Laos
Last minute hotel booking app, HotelQuickly, expands its footprint in the Asia Pacific region with its entry into the emerging tourist markets of Myanmar and Laos.The company said launching into these countries highlights its commitment to delivering a stress-free and rewarding last-minute hotel boo [...]
Welcome to ‘Planet Marriott’ – sets up own travel lifestyle content studio
Interesting trend as hospitality company morphs into media owners – Marriott International is forming a new global content studio to publish, distribute and share filmed content across film, television, online, digital and print distribution platforms. This is so it can focus on next-generation [...]
Outrigger sets new brand direction with focus on resorts and vacation condos
Outrigger Hotels and Resorts celebrates its Founder’s Day on 20 September to commemorate the day when the hotel group’s founders, Roy and Estelle Kelley, opened their first hotel in the Hawaii resort destination of Waikiki in 1947.To celebrate this special day the hospitality company unveiled it [...]
The Millennial Traveller: (Don’t you) wish you were here
Instagram and Facebook photos are really efficient ways of letting everyone know what you’re up to and making them wish they were experiencing the same thing. Whether it comes to travel or just a plate of food in front of you, the moment you whip out your smart phone to upload a photo, be honest n [...]
WIT Day One – Cross-firing on the C-Spot
Web in Travel 2010 opened on a blistering note with two teams – The Glee Team and The A Team - competing with each other to come up with the best customer insights that would drive change in travel distribution and marketing.The Glee Team comprised Ram Badrinathan, General Manager - Asia Pacific, [...]
WIT Day One – Finding your parents and WITcubator
One new aspect of WIT this year has been the THack. THack is Tnooz’s unique event which brings together travel industry APIs and the development community to brainstorm and create new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools.Largely going on out of the spotlight, the THack took [...]
WIT Day One – Japan revealed
The “Land of the Rising Sun” is one travel market that many want to tap and cultivate. But it is not an easy one to tap. Some insights into the market and the changing Japanese customers were revealed at the WIT Conference in the session, “My Name is Yuki-san, I Love to Travel”.Pictured left [...]
WIT Day One – On The Move Part One
Session description: After years of anticipation and expectation, followed by deflation, that mobile would change things forever, has it finally arrived? In this first session on mobile, we look at it from the view of the customer and how it has, and could, change the experience of those on th [...]
