Move over, you old thing – make way for the new
Either I am losing it or I am travelling too much. The night before my flight to Shanghai, I thought I should check on my flight time. Turned out I had booked the 01.15 flight thinking it was 1.15pm.Panic ensued. This meant I had roughly five hours to get ready instead of 17 hours. What did I do? I [...]
My Venice: Best pool in the world, and more
Why would anyone choose Venice in the height of summer? Veterans avoid it in July – too hot, too humid, too crowded. But I’m here and loving it. Because there’s a lifeline on the laguna to beat the heat. Well, sort of in it actually. Filtered sea water, lightly chlorinated with a splash of fr [...]
My-Strok@WIT to raise funds for Burmese foundation for the needy
Web In Travel will once again be featuring the My-Strok@WIT initiative where delegates will have a chance to create their doodles depicitng their love for travel on a canvas. These will be turned into a work of art by artist Alpana Ahuja.Alpana, whose paintings reflect her deep love for nature (righ [...]
myALN fuses Jetsetter and Tablet models to go after luxury travel in China
Trying to carve out a slice of the luxury travel market in China is private sale site myALN (Affordable Luxury Network) started by four former college room-mates from Harvard.“Online players in the luxury travel space are non-existent in China,” said CEO & co-founder Frank Lin. “Yet it� [...]
New direct marketing service for hotels that leverages on Twitter traffic
European startup Reach.ly has launched its first product, a unique service that delivers a highly filtered, real-time Twitter stream and conversation tool for hotels to convert potential guests into hotel rooms.As Reach.ly puts it simply on its website: “Someone tweets about their trip to your c [...]
WITNext: Pigeonhole Live to make debut on June 1 event
In the spirit of nurturing start-ups, WITNext on June 1 will be trying out a new conference service started by two National University of Singapore graduates.Pigeonhole Live, described as “the world’s simplest real-time conference Q&A tool on the mobile, enables questions and comments to be [...]
New records set in hotel bookings in November
Both the corporate and leisure travel sectors set 2010 growth records over 2009 in November, according to new data released in The Pegasus View.The report by Pegasus Solutions shows booking volumes through the mostly business global distribution systems (GDS) climbed +30.6%. Additionally, revenue fo [...]
NileGuide.com buys 10Best.com
Following its recent acquisition of travel Q & A site Localyte.com, global travel content publisher NileGuide.com today announced the acquisition of travel recommendation site 10Best.com for an undisclosed amount.The 10best.com acquisition from Enveritas Group, Inc. solidifies NileGuide as [...]
Now you can book within the KAYAK iPhone app
In a move clearly aimed at strengthening its brand engagement with users, KAYAK has introduced the option for users to complete hotel bookings directly within the KAYAK iPhone app.The updated version of the app is now available in the iTunes App Store and is available for download.Before the release [...]
OK, one more time: Your own website or a Facebook Fan Page?
A couple of months ago I was at the Singapore Tourism Board conference here in Singapore.Siew Hoon (of Web In Travel) was hosting a panel and I asked the panelists a question:“If you had finite funds and you were a small hotel owner, would you invest your precious cash in your own website or (y [...]
