Closer cooperation among APAC LCCs to combat rising regional competition
The recently released LCC/Hybrid Study, Asia Pacific 2014, by Abacus reveals that low cost carriers across Asia Pacific are collaborating more as competition in the region heats up.
Of those surveyed, four in 10 (42%) cite competition from other LCCs as a “significant challenge”, just [...]
Travel set to soar, China outbound set to surpass US this year
A major industry study written by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Amadeus, forecasts travel to grow by 5.4% per annum over the next 10 years, outpacing global GDP. The report also predicts that large emerging markets will be driving this growth, with China set to surpass the U.S to bec [...]
In an age of Math men, Brand Karma and Starwood win Data Creativity Award
For those who were at the WIT Conference last October, you’ll remember Lawrence Kuok, Manager, Digital Marketing, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific presenting a Facebook campaign that yielded unbelievable ROI.
Well, that campaign and the agency that executed it, Brand Karma, has [...]
Northstar Travel Media acquires Asia’s leading online travel content brand, Web in Travel
Secaucus, NJ USA, April 2, 2014 - Northstar Travel Media, the leading business-to-business information company serving the travel and meetings industries, has acquired Web In Travel (WIT), a Singapore-based multi-media platform content provider best known for its event series related to online tr [...]
The Age of Lost Innocence
I can’t help but think that the age of innocence in social networks is over.
Remember that first day you set up your Facebook account? It was so cool. A way to connect with real friends, to share with them what you liked, what you were doing.And then it grew and people you didn’t really kno [...]
Automation to replace hotels’ manual channel management
A key focus for hoteliers around the world in 2012 will be the integration of their online distribution with their Property Management Systems (PMS) and Revenue Management Systems (RMS) to make their online reach faster, simpler and more powerful.Forecasting trends for the online distribution of h [...]
Fresh, visceral take on an old theme – food, sex and intimacy intertwined
Shame opens with the protagonist Brandon (Michael Fassbender) lying in bed half-naked with one hand under the sheets. Immediately, one of those faux Confucius sayings came to mind, “Man who goes to bed with hard problem, wakes up with solution in hand.”
After reading some reviews on Sha [...]
Agents want more efficient process in selling ancillaries
Travel agencies are keen to assist airlines in distributing ancillary services through the GDS if the process is more streamlined and less-time consuming, reveals Travelport’s global airline merchandising survey.
Travelport found that one of the main gripes among agencies is the current [...]
A carnal appetite, stripped bare
An honest and unflinching exploration of sex addiction, Shame is far from the usual Hollywood fare.Steve McQueen's rendering of a sex addict's world has a fragile yet sinister beauty: beneath his ordered life, depicted through the protagonist's success at work and showroom apartment, lies an insati [...]
Three different perspectives on Shame
The challenge – for each of us to write a review about the movie “Shame”. So here it is, in consecutive posts, three different perspectives on the new Steve McQueen movie. As a journalist, I rarely miss deadlines, a consequence of working under an editor who said this was one word which me [...]
