A small insight into how things work in Japan
It’s been almost a month since we wrapped up WIT Japan and well, I feel ready now to share a little Japanese story.See, I now realize that when it comes to doing business in Japan, once you fit all the boxes – and you get past the starting gate – and that can take seven years or more – th [...]
Fogel: OTAs are about more than price and it’s a myth that hotels do not like us
Ahead of his participation in the 2012 China Travel Distribution Summit to be held on 12-13 September in Shanghai, Glenn D. Fogel, Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning for Priceline, shares with Travel Daily China the group’s plans for Asia Pacific and his take of the future landscape of onli [...]
New gen South-east Asians redefining travel to Australia
A new generation of South-east Asians travelling to Australia is effectively redefining the market, according to a poll commissioned by leading Asia/Pacific travel metasearch site,Wego.com.The study revealed that traditional group travel is in decline and Singaporean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vi [...]
The world of short-term rentals, flash sales and chicken wing optimisation
In China, you do whatever works – even if it’s “chicken wing optimization”. Yeoh Siew Hoon follows the discussion on travel opportunities at Echelon 2012, which was focused on flash sales and the short-term rental space.It was good to run into so many travel friends at Echelon 2012, Asia� [...]
Qantas bites the bullet, aims to be back in black by 2014
Embattled Australian flag carrier Qantas is to split its international and domestic arms into separate businesses and will expand partnerships with worldwide airlines to bring it back to profitability by 2014.Stephen Thompson, Qantas' executive manager global sales (pictured left), speaking at t [...]
India, the next big thing for Australia
Australia is pinning high hopes on India to boost its visitor arrival numbers in a new tourism strategy – “The India 2020 Strategic Plan” – from 148,200 in 2011 to 300,000 by plan’s end. Pictured above L-R: Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson, Tourism Australia's Francess-Anne K [...]
Hanoi cheapest, London most expensive, Singapore not-so-cheap either
TripAdvisor's TripIndexTM 2012, a cost comparison of an evening out for two people in 48 key tourist cities around the world, rates Hanoi as the cheapest and London as the most expensive city, with Singapore ranked among top 10 most expensive. The TripAdvisor TripIndex is tracked against the US [...]
MakeMyTrip: Keeping a start-up culture as it scales
To Amit Saberwal, Employee 62 at MakeMyTrip, India, the biggest achievement of the company is not the successful NASDAQ listing in 2010 but that it’s been consistently rated among the best places to work in India and its talent management practices are recognized by peers.For three years in a ro [...]
Priceline’s fleet of fighter jets continues to soar
At more than 425,000 room nights booked a day, of which 325,000 come fromBooking.com, you’d be forgiven for likening the Priceline Group to an A380 but Adrian Currie prefers to think of it as a fleet of fighter jets, each winging its own way to success. Currie, Priceline Group Board Management M [...]
Rate parity is biggest dilemma for hoteliers
A new study by Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and RateTiger reveals rate parity is the dominant factor affecting hotels’ distribution and revenue strategies today.This has also resulted in hotels neglecting the fundamentals of revenue management but has also opened their eyes to alternative distr [...]
