TripZilla makes foray into Vietnam with new site
Singapore based travel portal, TripZilla, sets its eyes on Vietnam’s growing online travel market with the launch of TripZilla.vnon January 13.
This is the third travel portal for the company, the other two being inSingapore and Malaysia. As Tripzilla's founder, Winnie Tan, said, the “ph [...]
Hotel bookings through mobile devices set to rise in 2014
Travellers are increasingly turning to smarphones and tablets to book hotel rooms, acounting for 7% of all bookings in 2013 and this trend will grow by another 20% this year, reveals eRevMax in its recent study on "Online Hotel Distribution 2014" (see details in infographic below).
Hotel [...]
Five ways you can use Facebook’s new Insights platform
Megan Peterson from Sabre Hospitality Solutions shares some valuable tips on to get the most from Facebook’s new Insights platform.
Do your fans really Like you? As Facebook’s new Insights platform rolls out to all businesses, you will have access to more data that shows just how likeable y [...]
The Wrap: Tigerair scales down ops in the Philippines, sells Filipino unit to Cebu Pacific
In the news: Cebu Pacific buys Tigerair Philippines, Accorhotels.com's Arabic site, Amadeus accessible to international airlines in China, India’s Via.com adopts Abacus’ solutions
Tigerair scales down ops in the Philippines, sells Filipino unit to Cebu Pacific
Singapore’s Tigerair an [...]
The Big 10 Tech Predictions for 2014
Futurist Prof Adrian David Cheok, Chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London and founder and director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore, shares his top 10 tech predictions for 2014.
1: Drones in the sky becoming mainstream. Delivery of goods by Drones.
2: Virtu [...]
Make last minute booking with Warwick’s new “Tonight” app
Warwick International Hotels has launched its new app, Warwick Tonight, which offers same-day deals to travellers and local customers with last-minute accommodation requirements for the group‘s collection of 50 upscale and luxury hotels and resorts across five continents.
Each featured W [...]
Abacus gets nod from CAAC to scale outbound travel from China
Abacus has become the first foreign global distribution system (GDS) to serve mainland China, the world’s largest outbound travel market, with the Civil Aviation Administration of China’s (CAAC) approval of licenses for its travel agent applicants.
The company, which has operated on th [...]
Year of the Chat
“What are you doing?” I asked my 19-year-old god-daughter whose nose was buried in her smartphone.
She has an iPhone 4 and its screen is cracked and she complains about how slow it is. She’s looking forward to the new iPhone 5s she’s getting from her father as a reward for doing [...]
Malaysia playing pivotal role in promoting intra-ASEAN tourism
Malaysia, which just launched Visit Malaysia Year 2014 (VMY 2014), is hosting the annual ASEAN Tourism Forum in Kuching, Sarawak from January 16 to 24. Its minister for tourism and culture, Dato' Seri Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz, believes ATF will be the perfect platform for the travel industry [...]
Pinpoint chooses Travelport as tech partner
Travelport has inked a new agreement with Pinpoint Travel Group, which makes it the preferred global distribution systems (GDS) provider for the group in the Asia region, and provide its businesses with on-going travel technology consultancy services as they continue their expansion..
Pinpoint [...]
