Magic – intrepid women travellers share their experiences at WITX
Singapore’s first professional female magician and escape artist Ning Cai (left) and her travel companion radio DJ Pam Ho, will be joining the all-woman’s cast at WITX 2012 in Bangkok this April.The two adventurers, both of whom have just completed a year-long trip around the world, will be tal [...]
Tourism comes under spotlight at Start-Up@Singapore
Hospitality and tourism was identified as one of the emerging industries in Singapore at a nationwide 24 Hours Business Plan Challenge organised by Start-Up @ Singapore.The aim of the competition was to raise the awareness of emerging industries, including Cloud Computing and Social Enterprise/Co-o [...]
Travellers “married” to their frequent traveller programmes
Loyalty programmes are so valuable to road warriors that they would choose them over a spouse if they could take just one on the road, reveals a survey of 9,900 globetrotters by Starwood Preferred Guest(SPG).The poll on travellers, who are on the road 25 times or more per year, found that most of [...]
Travelport explains its Agility programme
The following is a statement from Travelport outlining its Agility programme.Travelport Agility is an initiative to provide our travel agency customers with wide-ranging products in a single package and has been created to enable them to compete effectively in today’s rapidly changing travel indu [...]
Travelport’s Agility comes at a price for agents – will they pay?
Travelport’s rollout of its Agility Product Suite, coupled with a revision of commercial terms that will essentially require travel agents to pay for terminals, is causing rumblings among agents in Asia.(See Travelport explains its Agility scheme)The move, made in a space where agents in Asia ar [...]
PhoCusWright@ITB features key European travel leaders.
PhoCusWright has unveiled a pioneering programme forPhoCusWright@ITB, which takes place on March 7 in conjunction with ITB Berlin.This conference-in-a-conference is designed to help executives capitalise on key trends impacting the travel, tourism and hospitality marketplace.This year’s theme, [...]
Thailand prepares for Miracle, Myanmar gets set for Gold Rush
It was good to be back in Bangkok again, feasting on my favourite eats and seeking out new places to satisfy my always-hungry senses.It was also good to see the smiles back on my travel friends’ faces and hearing them say, “It’s slowly coming back” although how many times they’ve said tha [...]
Top travel websites 2011 – Hong Kong and Singapore
A look at the top 10 travel websites for 2011, as of January 2012, from Experian HitwiseIn Hong Kong jipiao.trip.taobao.com took the lead with 10.7% share of visits compared to Ctrip's 8.2% and Qunar's 7.2% respectively [...]
Strong demand for ITB Berlin 2012
The countdown to the 46th ITB Berlin, which takes place from March 7-12, has begun. Many of the halls are already booked up. Messe Berlin expects participation from around 11,000 exhibiting companies and organisations from more than 180 countries.David Ruetz, head of ITB Berlin said bookings were o [...]
One Malaysian entrepreneur’s journey of lessons to discovery
It is said that seven in 10 start-ups fail but even that cold hard fact was not enough to stop Jiun Kiew (left) from pursuing her dream more than a year ago - and she's certainly learnt a few lessons since. This is her journey.
Fresh from her studies in Australia, Kiew joined family-owned M [...]
