Click, Click, Click
The enormous amount of time we spend to make our digital selves more attractive, as well as to fertilise other’s digital presences via Likes, Comments, Shares, Reviews, and Ratings so that we can mutually benefit by moving up in the Rankings – any type of search results page – is the biggest t [...]
Letter from Sydney: Australia wakes up to the Asian century
So it seems like I’ve arrived in Sydney at the dawn of a new Asian century.And it certainly feels like it on first impression – I was driven to the hotel by a taxi driver from India, I am staying at the Shangri-La Hotel, a Hong Kong-based and big-on-China brand and for dinner, I had Thai chicken [...]
THack @ WIT Singapore – high commended, gamification, creativity and more
What can a single developer pull together with a handful of APIs, a creative mind and a touch of tongue-in-check? Yes, it’s the Traveling Gnome (not the roaming kind!).Developer Alexey Abolmasov, a Belarussian now living in Thailand where he works for a company called 12Go.Asia, pulled together w [...]
Customer experience, ancillaries among challenges Sabre’s trying to solve
For 15 years, Theo Panagiotoulias (pictured below) worked on the airline side of the fence, spending most of his career with American Airlines. Then earlier this year, he switched to the supplier side, joining Sabre Airlines Solutions as its vice president for Asia Pacific.Why the jump over the fen [...]
A one-click business trip and friendly reviews via Facebook win THack @ WIT Singapore
More creativity and masses of hard work from developers as a teams from Skyscanner and Flocations brought a new idea to planning business trips and also capturing the best travel reviews.The two teams won the second THack held in Singapore to coincide with the annual WebinTravel conference t [...]
An invitation from Ibis to a Pillow Fight Party
As part of a new global rebranding campaign, Accor’s ibis brand family of economy hotels is hosting the world’s biggest virtual pillow fight through its Facebook app.The “Pillow Fight Party” invitation is opened to fans of ibis Facebook page in Asia Pacific. Participants not only stand a [...]
The king is dead, long live the new content
Photo above: “The Future of Content” panel at WIT, from left, Ross Veitch, CEO, Wego; George Mitchell, CTO & co-founder, Circos Brand Karma; Prof Adrian David Cheok; Gordon Locke, president, DCustom; and Melissa Yang, CTO & co-founder, Tujia, China.I heard it again on the podcast our “ [...]
Top travel websites for September
Wotif.com and ZUJI continue to rule the online travel space in Australia and Singapore respectively, while in Hong Kong Ctrip regained its #1 spot, displacing front-runner Jipiao.trip.taobao.com (See slides below for full details.)AustraliaWotif.com maintained its stronghold as the top online trave [...]
Strong demand by tech savvy Indonesians for Rajakamar’s apps
Since the relaunch of Rajakamar.com, Indonesia’s largest domestic hotel distribution group, on 31 May 2012 over 25,000 customers have downloaded its two mobile apps.Scott Blume, CEO of RKI Group (pictured left), said the company was already seeing end-to-end bookings, including payment on these l [...]
Lessons from WIT 2012 – ideas to heed
As you unwind after the WIT Conference last week and plug back into your work wherever you are, here’s a list of things you should heed and ideas to keep by your bedside as you plan your strategy for 2013.• You have to lose something to win at something else.Glenn Fogel (pictured left), head of [...]
