Dixon: Ancillaries make it harder for customers and one shouldn’t get too carried away with social media
Geoff Dixon, the former CEO of Qantas, and now chairman of Tourism Australia, speaks to WIT on the linkages between aviation and tourism, airlines and ancillary revenues and marketing and social media.Q: So is there life after Qantas?A: Yes, there is. Really. I loved being at Qantas but it was just [...]
Down Under: Men watch twice the amount of online video as women
Here's an interesting stat to begin with: Australians Watched Nearly 3 Hours of Online Video per Viewer at YouTube.com in October ComScore today released its October 2010 rankings of the top video properties in Australia based on data from its comScore Video Metrix service. The report found tha [...]
EAN teams up with Japan’s Globe-Trotter T&E
Expedia® Affiliate Network (EAN), a division of Expedia Inc, has inked an agreement to power online hotel bookings forGlobe-Trotter T&E, a Tokyo-based media company.With this agreement, visitors to the Globe-Trotter website are able to book hotels from almost 140,000 properties across 30,000 [...]
eNett partners Moneydirect as latter closes global operations
eNett International, a joint venture between Travelport and PSP International, and a provider of payment solutions tailored to meet the needs of the travel industry, has entered into a strategic relationship with Moneydirect, an Amadeus and Sabre joint venture.Moneydirect, which is closing its glo [...]
Feeling high in Cuzco!
Everyone warned us about the effects of altitude sickness in Cuzco!Agh. I've been up to 5,416 m in Nepal, I've climbed Slovenia's tallest mountain Triglav which is 2,864 m and just last week we were in Tucson, Arizona and drove up Mt Lemon which peaks at 2,800 m. What altitude sickness!Cuz [...]
Find a lower price anywhere else and you will get first night free, promises IHG
IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group) announced a major initiative to better serve guests’ evolving needs in the hotel industry.Pioneering the way forward, the launch of “Best Price Guarantee” offers the most powerful website guarantee ever to guests booking on any of the IHG brand sites - a [...]
Food of my roots, rediscovered
Food’s always been a big part of my life. My father, you see, was a cook. In those days, they didn’t have chefs, they were just cooks. He was one of those Hainanese folks who arrived in the then-Malaya and somehow most of them landed up in the food business.They were the pillars of South-east As [...]
G’day mates, I’m feeling as dry as a dead dingo’s dong
There was a moment last week when I conceded to myself that I had been “aussified”.It’s a similar experience to being ossified - afterwards, I felt I had turned to bone.After almost 30 years of living in Australia, but still carrying a UK passport, supporting Arsenal and favouring UK bra [...]
GetFlight is different ‘because we focus on sale airfares’
Is there room for another flight search site? Well, Ian Cumming obviously thinks so - he recently launched GetFlight.com.au. The site received massive traffic on launch day and then things went a bit sour when a joke backfired. It used the image of a plane crash to explain why its server went down. [...]
GHS develops “disruptive” Facebook booking engine for independents
Singapore-based Global Hospitality Solutions has developed a Facebook booking engine for hotels that will allow the booking to be transacted within the social network’s environment.CEO Bernard Quek said, “Most booking engines embedded within a hotel’s Facebook page now take the customer to the [...]
