Letter from Dubai: Excitement is in the air as 2020 and online promise beckon
My first day in Dubai over and I can feel the excitement in the air – the reason, a four-digit number, 2020.
It may be six years away but that number is emblazoned everywhere I look and everyone I meet is citing that number – the year of the World Expo – as why this city is once again bulli [...]
Travel agents gain from Amadeus’ tie-ups with three airlines
In two separate partnership deals with Singapore’s Scoot and European airlines, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, Amadeus offers agents access to a comprehensive range of fares/schedules, as well as boost their merchandising offer to travellers
Scoot inks new deal with Amadeus
A new long [...]
The lessons GetYourGuide learnt along the way to becoming a marketplace
With all eyes on the tours and activities space this year, one company has certainly gathered a lot of attention and that’s the Europe-basedGetYourGuide which started life as a student project back in 2008.
“The basic idea we had was to create a P2P platform for tours and activities – we [...]
AsiaRooms.com rewards customers with cashback programme
Online travel accommodation specialist (OTA), AsiaRooms.com, has launched its first cashback rewards programme, initially for customers from Singapore and Malaysia.
Customers from these two countries who register for the programme can receive between 5% to 7.5% cashback once they have accumu [...]
The Contextless Generation
The Contextless Generation - what a mouthful and sadly, this may be what we are generating. A world where context becomes created artificially rather than naturally.
This was brought home when, over the holidays, I was watching a group of friends engage (of many different age groups) in that gr [...]
Asian travellers fuel global tourism’s growth as more take time off for holidays
Travel will be a major focus for many Asians in 2014, with a forecasted increase of 17% in travel budgets and a rise in trips over last year’s, according to findings from Travelzoo Asia Pacific’s annual subscriber survey.
The results also highlighted transformations in the vacation spendi [...]
The Wrap: Wego unveils travel trends from Singapore, China, Hong Kong in the Year of the Horse
In the news: Travel trends in the Year of the Horse, ITB Berlin Summit on omni-channel marketing, Burufly’s iOS app, Abacus’ Chinese language fare feeds for EVA Air
Wego unveils travel trends from Singapore, China, Hong Kong in the Year of the Horse
Meta search engine, Wego, looks int [...]
Time for hotels to engage and act, Revinate sets up APAC base
While it’s all very good to know what their customers are saying about them on review sites, and most hotels now have tools that enable them to do that, the critical elements to act on this year are engagement and action.
Revinate's vice president for global business development Josh Stei [...]
Letter from Shanghai: When you’re living on China speed, no time for slow TV
It’s a beautiful wintry morning. I am on the top floor of the Shangri-La Jing An overlooking an amazing city that never ceases to astound me.
Shanghai’s put on her best face for me these last three days – crisp air, blue skies – rare days, my Shanghainese friends tell me and so they [...]
Singapore’s BeMyGuest buys Indiescapes
BeMyGuest, Asia’s leading aggregator of local tours and activities, has bought its former competitor, Indiescapes, for an undisclosed sum that wil see it expanding its offerings in South East Asia..
Indiescapes, a curated marketplace that connects travellers seeking unique travel experiences [...]
