Finnair goes to the Angry Birds, seeks fans for Asian Challenge
Finnair has begun a worldwide online search for the eight biggest Angry Birds fans to fly on the longest and highest Angry Birds flight ever from Helsinki to Singapore on September 20, 2011.Onboard this one-of-a-kind theme flight, the fans of the world-famous mobile gaming device, developed by the F [...]
WIT Charity Auction to help build a school and dormitory for young girls in Laos
I was curious to meet Marie Cammal. I had heard of her work in Cambodia rescuing young children from prostitution, abuse and rape. Her organization, Sok Sabay which means “happiness” in Khmer, has done such good work that in 2004, Time Magazine singled her out as one of 27 European Heroes. Ment [...]
Now anyone can add businesses to Google Maps
Google has just launched a Google Map feature, which enables anybody to put tourism businesses and places of interest as pins and markers on Google Maps.Previously, you have to be a business claiming a Google My Business page to tell Google to put you on the map. Or you had to rely on Google picking [...]
AirAsia’s Q2 net profit surges to RM362mil on forex gains
AirAsia Bhd posted a net profit of RM367.16 million (US$116 million) for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014 (2Q14) from RM58.35 million a year ago, representing a 529% increase mainly due to foreign exchange gain on borrowings.This was achieved on the back of a higher revenue of RM1.31 billion, [...]
The State of Travel Startups
At PhoCusWright, we get a lot of briefings from travel startups. Over the years, we have seen many emerging companies, so we decided to dig into the numbers to see what we could learn about the state of startups in travel – where are entrepreneurs investing their creative capital, and where are in [...]
Get a Uber ride with the TripAdvisor app
Uber, in a move to stay ahead of competitors such as Lyft, has opened its API to all developers enabling other companies to integrate its service into third party apps.This development enables apps to pass a destination address to the Uber app, display pickup times, provide fare estimates, and acces [...]
Alitalia, Amadeus ink content pact
Alitalia and Amadeus have signed a full content contract which runs until the end of 2013. Under the terms of the agreement, Alitalia has expanded guaranteed access to its full range of fares, schedules and inventory from Europe-wide to all Amadeus travel agencies globally.Marco Sansavini, Alitalia� [...]
All Text and FB, all the time: Today’s Teens, Tomorrow’s Travellers.
At ITB Berlin this week there is a Roundtable: Blogging, Tweeting and Pinging for Business. One of the subtext topics of the session from moderated by PhocusWright's Bruce Rosard is examining "What will be the most impactful communication channels for travel distribution in 2011 for suppliers, in [...]
Amadeus and Garuda forge partnership
Just announced, Amadeus and Garuda Indonesia have partnered up to create a user-friendly booking system for Garuda's global customers. The implementation of the Amadeus online booking engine was timed to coincide with Garuda Indonesia’s re-introduction of services to Europe with the launch of [...]
Amadeus enhances Extreme Search
Amadeus is enhancing its Extreme Search solution which allows travellers to ask open questions in real-time such as “where can I go on a beach holiday in Europe for less than €600 per person?”Extreme Search was first launched in 2009 and won the Top Innovation Award at the PhocusWright confere [...]
