A touch of Korea on AirAsia X
Tasty airline food, previously the domain of legacy airlines with the (mis)conception that their low-cost counterparts can’t offer passengers much beyond the usual dry sandwiches, muffins, buns and canned drinks or the 3-in-one beverages.Photo: Food tasting with AirAsia X's Azran Osman-Rani (2nd r [...]
A lust for wandering and creating goes a long way
You could be forgiven for thinking you have walked into a music store. Or is it a funky bar with its eclectic furniture? Or a Peranakan-themed French restaurant? Whatever it is, it’s hard to put Loh Lik Peng’s newest hotel in Singapore, Wanderlust, into any box.Which is how the hotelier (left), [...]
A heady brew of exits, passion and Gen Y desires
I think I traded too much beer last night. So forgive me if this post is a little incoherent, but what the heck, it was the last WITNext in Singapore before we begin the countdown to the WIT Conference in October. It was great for Fritz Demopoulos, former CEO of Qunar, to fly in from Hong Kong for [...]
A customer’s voice: How you can get me to love you more
In three weeks time I will be attending WIT and participating on two panels. And today I enjoyed a lovely lunch with Siew Hoon talking about the event, all the arrangements and how tweeters and bloggers can participate in the true spirit of engaged and connected consumers.We talked a little about Fo [...]
‘Nothing like Australia’ comes to Singapore
Three months after it launched its new “There’s Nothing Like Australia” brand story, Tourism Australia has brought the campaign to Singapore.It is inviting Singapore residents to share their favourite Australian holiday stories, to be posted alongside the 3,500 Australian entries it collected [...]
‘Fill the Floor’ of a Bali hotel with 20 friends
Hotels.com® has launched its “Fill the Floor” competition. The competition gives travelers from 10 Asia Pacific countries the chance to win the ultimate holiday worth up to S$20,000, with up to 19 friends or family members.For the lucky winner from Singapore, the once-in-a-lifetime prize includ [...]
Wotif, Thien Minh team up to make iViVu leading OTA in Vietnam
Wotif Group has sealed its first joint venture deal in Asia with the inking of a 50:50 partnership in Vietnam with the Thien Minh Travel Group that owns Buffalo Tours and Victoria Hotels & Resorts.Group CEO Robbie Cooke, passing through Singapore on his return from Ho Chi Minh City, did not disc [...]
Wotif posts $25.4m in half-year profit, poised to grow in Asia
Wotif Holdings has announced a half-year after tax profit of A$25.4 million, results that are in line with what it flagged last year and “mirrors the performance we saw in the business in the six months to June 2010”, said group chief executive Robbie Cooke.Some highlights are:· Australian acco [...]
Worldhotels launches global Facebook contest
Worldhotels, one of the leading groups for independent hotels, has launched a global contest for fans of its Facebook page.Until September 30, 2011 the group’s Facebook friends are eligible to win 25,000 Frequent Flyer miles with one of the 19 Frequent Flyer partners of Worldhotels, and a two-nig [...]
Boatbay, the Airbnb of boats, launches in APAC & ME
Tapping into the new wave of sharing, the first boat rental marketplace has launched covering Asia Pacific and the Middle East, the two biggest emerging markets for sailing and yachting.Co-founder, Tim Gundry, of Boatbay says it is “the Airbnb for boating, yachting and people who want to experien [...]
