Japan Internet users spend most time on blogs
More than 80% of Japan’s entire online population in Japan visited a blog site in June 2011, an increase of 7% from the previous year, according to comScore Japan KK, a subsidiary of comScore, Inc.FC2 inc. led the pack with 46.7 million visitors, followed by Livedoor-Blog with 33.4 million visito [...]
From Las Vegas: Super-connectivity is great but it carries risks
A super-connected world brings with it tremendous opportunities for travel and tourism and along with it, great risks, said Dr Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin College at the opening session of the World Travel & Tourism Council Summit in Las Vegas this morning.Connectivity brings with it c [...]
Jet Airways introduces Mobile Barcodes
Jet Airways announced that it has adopted the very latest in Quick Response (QR) mobile code technology to disseminate more information about its products and services to its guests.This initiative makes Jet Airways the first airline in India to utilize barcode technology to disseminate real time in [...]
Jetstar declares ‘decade of low cost for North Asia’
Japan Airlines in talks with Qantas. All Nippon Airways in discussion with AirAsia. No wonder Bruce Buchanan, CEO of Jetstar, is calling this the decade of low cost for North Asia.At a media conference to announce the launch of flights to Beijing, Ningbo and Hanoi, Buchanan said that while the 80s [...]
Kuoni buys Travelport’s GTA
Travelport is to sell its ground content wholesale business, Gullivers Travel Associates (GTA), to Kuoni for US$720 million.The transaction is conditioned on the majority approval by Travelport’s bank lenders and a vote by the shareholders of Kuoni in favour of a capital increase by Kuoni to fina [...]
Top 10 social media marketing tips for hotels
Here are our Top 10 tips for hotel social media marketing. We have put these together from daily hands on experience performing internet marketing for our hotels. It is the best list of practical ideas that can be implemented right away.1. Have a Blog to post information on activities, attractions, [...]
Lao hotels on one booking site
Last month CyberServ Company launched a new travel booking website www.LaoBooking.com that they claim includes nearly all accommodation of the country ranging from guest houses to large sized hotels.It states that every property has been visited by staff so featured photos and descriptions relia [...]
Let The Gamification Begin
If there was one word that stuck in my mind from the three days of discourse, debate and discussion at WIT, it was “gamification”.It was a word that aroused passions too – some people hated it, insisted it didn’t exist as a proper English word while some people loved it, saying language shou [...]
Letter from Dubai, the day after
So it’s the day after (the news of the death of Osama bin Laden). Our intrepid Professor Sabena is at the Arab World’s biggest travel show, now one of the largest in the world. He reports from the show floor, the cafes, the hotels and the taxi cabs.The mood amongst people in Dubai on the street, [...]
Looking to start up in travel? Here are the 6 hot categories
Imagine there’s the WIT Venture Fund and you were one of the investors? Here are the categories you should be investing in.At the WIT*e event last Thursday, Brett Henry, Vice President Marketing and Vice President India of Abacus International singled out six categories for travel start-ups – ga [...]
