Silk Road adventure awaits winner of Tune Hotels Facebook contest
Tune Hotels is hosting the “Adventure on the Silk Road” contest on its Facebook page, and the winner will join 30 other explorers in the month-long four-wheel drive overland expedition spanning over 10,000 kilometres along China’s stretch of the Silk Road.The journey, slated to start on Au [...]
Dream on but remember it’s also about the stamina
Rita Goh, a regular WIT attendee, shares her impressions of the WITNext Summercamp and what she walked away with personally.It was a hot Thursday afternoon at the Singapore Management University Administration Building and within an hour’s registration before the start of WITnext Summercamp at th [...]
Newism – and why that spells heaven or hell from brands
Newism - and why that spells heaven or hell from brandsNewism … And why that spells heaven or hell from Brands.That’s how the people at Trend watching title their latest trend briefing. They define it as:The ‘new’ has never been hotter, as the entire world, from emerging to mature ec [...]
Wego picks Jakarta as its mobile & social centre of excellence
In the past six months Wego has doubled its investment in Indonesia. Its team, operating out of new offices in Kuningan, Jakarta is expected to grow to 50 by the end of the year, and they will spearhead the company's mobile product and social media development."Indonesia is a market of high strateg [...]
Technology to help Filipino travel agents manage industry’s rapid growth
Philippines' travel and tourism is set to grow positively in the years ahead, with both inbound arrivals and domestic passenger numbers expected to rise, with the latter increasing by 10% this year, making it one of the few countries achieving double digit growth.Booking figures from Abacus Intern [...]
People Power: How to be a talent magnet in the travel industry
Hot on the heels of our WITNext Summercamp, we asked David Brett, President, Amadeus Asia Pacific to share his views on how travel companies can attract and retain talent. A person who is attracted to a career in the travel industry is surely an adventurer. Naturally inquisitive, they want to trav [...]
The changing face of the Chinese traveller
The Chinese middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States. In 15 years the Chinese middle class will reach 800 million from 300 million today. Over the next five years affluent Chinese consumers will grow from four million to 20 million. It has changed and will cont [...]
Airline Cloud9 to bridge airlines and changing customers
From Japan to China to India, online travel is experiencing a boom throughout Asia Pacific. PhoCusWright estimates that the total travel market in Asia Pacific in 2012 will be worth USD294 billion and of this, the online travel market will account for USD70.6 billion.In Japan, amid a declining tra [...]
Online Review and Reputation Management Trends for Hotels
The use of online reviews and social media has reached an unprecedented level of adoption within the hotel industry – becoming nearly universally embraced by hotel executives in Asia and around the world as a key source of customer insight, a tool to achieve operational and service excellence, an [...]
ITB Asia 2012’s sold out
ITB Asia 2012 is completely sold out following the close of exhibitor applications in May, five months ahead of the event."Each year the show gets bigger and better. We increased capacity by 20% after a record performance in 2011, and with five months to go until ITB Asia 2012 we’ve not only fil [...]
