SilverRail is top innovator at PhoCusWright summit
Travel research industry authority, PhoCusWright Inc., has named SilverRail Technologies the "PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Winner" at the close of The PhoCusWright Conference held November 16-18, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ USA.SilverRail took top honours among 33 innovative companies that demon [...]
Singaporeans, Chinese work the hardest; Indians like their gyms
Business travellers surveyed in the Accor Asia Pacific Business Traveller Survey 2011 are a hard-working lot, with folks from Singapore and China topping the hard-working charts.The survey found that 75% worked in the hotel at some point during their trip, increasing to 82% for respondents travell [...]
Skyscanner brings its local approach to Asia
Caught up with Skyscanner’s Frank Skivington (left) and Ewan Gray this afternoon, their last day of a hectic week recruiting staff and finding office space for their new operations in Singapore.They both looked surprisingly fresh, considering they have had 40 meetings in a week, and definitely up [...]
Skyscanner expects Asia traffic to surpass Europe’s in 2 years
Skyscanner’s new office is pretty swish. From the 40th floor of the Ocean Financial Centre, you can pretty much scan the skyline of Singapore.On the walls are computer screens that show revenue tickers, session tickers, downloading times, tweet tracking – it’s like being in a medical room hook [...]
Hotels.com localizes sites for Indonesia and Vietnam
Lately, the stars have been aligning for hotels.com in the Asia Pac region. They have just localized their website for the Indonesian and Vietnamese markets, allowing consumers to do searches on over 135,000 hotels worldwide utilizing their destination preferences and languages. This brings the [...]
Social commerce can happen, but do it with respect
Social media is interesting in that it can help suppliers gain more traffic at their own branded site. As most suppliers have an efficient e-commerce engine on their own branded site, positive social media can actually facilitate more transactions.I know this is a big statement, but it's true. Here' [...]
Social web helps Sweetman share Hidden Secrets
In my travels, I am always looking out for entrepreneurs who are trying to do things differently in travel and, in Melbourne, I found such a person.Fiona Sweetman (left) runs Hidden Secrets Tours, a company that takes people on walks through Melbourne’s lanes, arcades and walkways, showing them p [...]
Technology enhances AirAsia’s product and service delivery
From mobile travel protection to inflight entertainment via Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and a new airline management systemAirAsia, the region’s largest low cost airline, banks on technology for efficient services and to grow its ancillary business.AirAsia INSURE on the goOne of AirAsia’s latest tech [...]
Taking our eyes off the rearview mirror
For those of you at WIT last year, you may remember a guy wearing a strange hat and blabbing on (dreaming on) about something he called ‘Searching without Searching’. Well, that guy was me and I’m a believer in trying to imagine what could be – what would be great – without thinking too m [...]
Japan crisis opened BCD’s eyes to power of social media
At first he was skeptical of social media but now that he’s seen its value during the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, you can’t keep Greg O’Neil, president of BCD Travel Asia Pacific, from chattering.Chatter is an internal social media tool within Sales Force and O’Neil said [...]
