To grow, hotels must have greater integration between business and IT priorities
A new report by Amadeus, Transform Your Growth Strategy Now, says that if hotels are to secure growth in the next three years they must align strategic business and IT priorities now.Developed by RockCheetah, a leading travel industry marketing strategy and technology consulting practice, and aut [...]
Tourism Western Australia launches YouTube Channel
Tourism Western Australia has launched a new channel on YouTube.Tourism Minister Kim Hames said the Tourism WA YouTube channel was a perfect tool for sharing footage of Western Australia’s extraordinary destinations and experiences which hopefully would inspire viewers to visit our State. “Thes [...]
Trashy Eurovision and stunning Russia – all in one trip
Gosh I laughed! Silly laughing!! Love laughing on the plane. Just finished watching 'Bridal Wars' enroute to Moscow ... and although the movie is totally ridiculous ... I laughed!What will also be ridiculous is the Eurovision Song Festival finals that we're going to see this Saturday. That i [...]
Travel bookings to Indonesia growing rapidly
Expedia, Inc. released data showing the number of international bookings made on Expedia and Hotels.com global sites for travel to Indonesia has grown nearly 70% over the past twelve months, with the majority of the travelers coming from Australia, the U.S., and the U.K. “Indonesia is growing in [...]
Spottly raises US$850K, to use funds for expansion and app development
Hong Kong-based social travel app, Spottly, has raised US$850,000 in seed round funding from investors that include Silicon Valley-based incubator 500Startups, Cherubic Ventures, Gobi Partners and a number of individual angel investors.Spottly will use the proceeds to focus on growth in local mark [...]
The New Gen Renter: A threat or opportunity to hotels?
I came home from walking the dogs the other day to find a notice left on my door by my estate management. I sometimes feel they’re there to keep me in my place rather than keep people out.Anyhow, the gist of the memo was to tell me that they’d discovered that at least one of the residents had do [...]
Starwood ups the loyalty ante with launch of SPG Pro
Starwood Preferred Guest®, the 15 year-old loyalty programme from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, will be getting a revamp from October 15, 2014, as it extends its sights to its business-to-business customer base.The new, comprehensive loyalty programme will target meeting and travel prof [...]
Easy Taxi targets corporates in next move to monetise and expand
Soon as I had finished a ride with Easy Taxi, I got a call on my mobile asking how the ride had been. The other day, when a booking failed to materialise, for some reason, I couldn’t get the app to work, I receive a call asking me if there had been a problem and could they help? Such is the speed [...]
8 luxury travel trends you shouldn’t ignore
Brand Karma has just published its latest research on Luxury Travel Trends, and we present the summarised findings here. So Luxury digital marketers, this one is for you. 1. Small is the New Big. In luxury travel social media, size does matter. But in this case smaller is better when it comes to d [...]
Ouch. The Skycouch that’s a tad too pricey
Air New Zealand has been pretty aggressive in the Social Media space. They have also been a very innovative airline.Their Economy Skycouch idea (or should it be Sky Chaise?) product has been much promoted – the new product will be available on its new 777-300 aircraft and will be flying on selec [...]
