New social media monitoring tool for hotels and restaurants
TrustYou of Munich and Dallas-based Review Analyst have formed a strategic partnership to launch TrustYou Review Analyst, touted as the world's largest and most international social media monitoring provider for hotels and restaurants.The new service has the largest and widest range of review sour [...]
My life in a Continental Deli
Rabat-Paris-Cardiff – as unlikely a combination as you will find on any traveller’s itinerary – but hey, that’s what travel is about these days, the ability to mix and match according to desires and circumstances.Rabat (left) wasn’t the easiest place to get into. I won’t bore you with th [...]
Moving a colossal temple site in Egypt. It’s possible!
The flies are attacking me! The air is much cleaner than in Cairo, yet now we have pesky flies all around, all the time. Agh!Situated just 43 km from the Sudanese border, this small Nubian town of 7,000 people has two colossal temples as its claim to fame – the monumental temple of Ramses II and [...]
More growth, more OTA intermediation, predicts ZUJI’s Roshan Mendis
Roshan Mendis, CEO, ZUJI/Travelocity Asia Pacific, shares his views on what lies in store for Online Travel Agents in the new year.Q: What are the three things you think will happen in the online travel agency space in 2011?Significant growth, more players entering the fray, great amount of OTA inte [...]
Momondo launches multi-stop, round-trip search
The travel search aggregator Momondo, which this month was picked one of the “best travel websites and apps” by Travel and Leisure Magazine is launching a new search engine for multi-stop round-trip travel.The initiative makes it possible to search flights with multiple destinations in just [...]
Mobile will change everything, the way Internet did, says Terry Jones
The day I meet Terry Jones, it’s raining in Dubai. It’s quite a rare occasion. Both.I had long wanted to meet the man who founded Travelocity in 1996 – a man who started work life as a travel agent and somehow always found himself to be at the right place at the right time for most of his care [...]
Mobile consumption spikes across the world
comScore today released The comScore 2010 Mobile Year in Review. This inaugural report recaps key trends in the mobile landscape in 2010 throughout the US, Europe (EU5) and Japan.The report highlights important components of the mobile market including device trends, smartphone adoption, browser/app [...]
Mims takes on mammoth task of global sales at Sands
The day I met up with John Mims, the new senior vice president-worldwide sales and resorts marketing for the Sands Corp, the Marina Bay Sands was due to have its official grand opening.Mims, who just joined the group a few weeks ago, was whisked off from Las Vegas to Singapore in one of the Sands’ [...]
Meet a modern day Marco Polo with 10 phones, 3 tablets and oh yes, he tweets too
The other day I met Steve Kleinschmidt - CEO of the Marco Polo Hotel Group. He was here in Singapore with a large part of his team to talk about Marco Polo’s planned return to Singapore and to conduct a GM roadshow. Following a great chat about the Marco Polo plans, Social Media and what it me [...]
Mandala Airlines suspends all flights
Mandala Airlines today announced that it is planning to request a suspension of payment obligation to the Commercial Court allowing its management to restructure the business and to restore the airline to profitability."This is the best course of action to ensure the continued survival of the airlin [...]
