How Tourism Australia personalies, mobilises and socialises content
Last week I attended the iStrategy conference in Sydney, Australia. Nick Baker, the Executive General Manager of Consumer Marketing for Tourism Australia, gave a keynote address on Tourism Australia’s past year’s experience, which brought into focus “content and the key levers of personalise, [...]
Differentiate and profit from the women’s market
This Friday, more than 100 travel industry professionals will gather at the Sofitel So Bangkok to find out how they can differentiate and profit from the growing and influential women’s market.The second WITX, a niche event by Singapore-based Web In Travel, will dive into how women are redefining [...]
NusaTrip launches, claims position as Indonesia’s first full service OTA
In yet another sign of how hot the Indonesian online travel market is getting and just days before the WIT Indonesia conference opens on Wednesday in Jakarta, NusaTrip.com has launched, calling itself the “first complete online travel agent in Indonesia”.CEO & founder Hans Ebenhahn said [...]
IATA NDC: Why you should care and how it will change the way airline reservations are made, Part 2
In this two part piece Timothy O'Neil-Dunne (pictured below left) of T2Impact Management Consulting and VaultPAD Accelerator for Travel Entrepreneurs explains how airlines are changing the way reservations are made by improving the sophistication of the supply of airline products to intermed [...]
Tan breathes yellow power into Expedia
Thirty days into her new job as CEO of AirAsia Expedia, the joint venture company between AirAsia and Expedia, and Kathleen Tan’s doing what she does best – building a brand.“The Expedia brand may be well known in the US and Europe but out here, it’s not that known. We are a two-year-old sta [...]
A journey through Myanmar, Part 3: Finding peace and tranquillity in Inle Lake
On the last leg of her adventure in Myanmar, Maria Benz (Amadeus Asia) visited the famed Inle Lake and found a serene rustic paradise.7th November 2012: From Mandalay to Nyaungshwe/Inle LakeAm getting a bit tired of backpacking. My hotel room smelt of “sewage” last night and a light kept flicki [...]
The Wrap: Hong Kongers most honest travellers in Asia Pacific
In the news: Hotel.com's survey on honest travellers in APAC, CWT's Travel Stress Index, Booking.com mobile bookings on the riseHong Kongers most honest travellers in Asia PacificA global survey by online accommodation booking service, Hotel.com, reveals Hong Kongers as the most honest travellers i [...]
It’s all about Me as new travellers set to transform Asia
Travel in Asia Pacific is undergoing a fundamental change influenced by developments such as the greater empowerment of women, the ageing of populations and the drift towards individualism.These developments have led to the fragmentation of the market into niches and new segments such as the female [...]
IATA NDC: Why you should care and how it will change the way airline reservations are made
In this two part piece Timothy O'Neil-Dunne of T2Impact Management Consulting and VaultPAD Accelerator for Travel Entrepreneurs explains how airlines are going to change the way reservations are made by improving the sophistication of the supply of airline products to intermediaries, content p [...]
Airline Merchandising Platform part of Travelport’s journey to reinvent GDS model
In case you think the new Travelport Merchandising platform for airlines is yet another product put out by yet another GDS, Travelport would like you to think again.This is the product that marks a “sea change” in the travel industry and signals the arrival of a new Travelport that intends t [...]
