Sabre Destination Hack: Overwhelming response, opens to virtual entries from overseas developers
The response to Sabre’s first ever Asia Pacific inaugural hackathon has been so overwhelming that the company has added a virtual component to enable overseas developers to take part remotely.
To date, over 200 participants have registered from Singapore and the Asia Pacific region for Destinat [...]
Is the tail wagging the dog? Time to flip the world around
I remember the first day I started wearing spectacles. I was 10 and kept failing my Math and the teacher thought there could be something wrong with my eyesight. I was so relieved, I thought I was just bad at numbers and was getting a serious complex.
Anyway, the first day I wore it, not only did [...]
Simon Lehmann to lead Phocuswright as President
Travel industry research authority Phocuswright, a division of Northstar Travel Group, today announced the appointment of Simon Lehmann as the brand’s president, effective November 1, 2016.
Lehmann brings to Phocuswright 25 years of strategic and operating experience, expertise in travel and te [...]
The Wrap: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
The weekly news roundup: Visa’s report on future of global travel and tourism, two new partners for Sabre, PayPals’s new merchants in APAC
VISA SURVEY: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
International travel among Singapore household [...]
Hotels under-investing in revenue management talent, says Duetto’s Bosworth
It is imperative that the hotel industry in Asia invests in educating the next generation of revenue managers – this is necessary for its own survival, said Patrick Bosworth, CEO and co-founder of Duetto.
Speaking at the Duetto Revenue Strategy Forum which it ran in partnership with Hotel I [...]
APAC travellers like to consume travel content before they sleep: Skyscanner
We have been advised not to bring our mobile gadgets to bed as the blue light emitted is bad for our eyesight, interrupts our sleep patterns and bad for health, yet many travellers in Asia Pacific (APAC) are doing just that - consuming travel content before they hit the sack.
Skyscanner’s first [...]
Seven startups to vie for top prize at WIT amid surge in travel investments
Seven travel tech startups are in the running in the WIT Startup Pitch competition to win a place in the Travelport Labs Accelerator programme, which comes with seed funding of US$30,000, as well as US$120,000 of cloud credits on IBM Cloud, under the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program.
The semi-fi [...]
SimpliFlying survey: Customer service is number one priority for airlines
Airlines have picked social customer service as their top priority going into 2017.
This is one of the key findings from a survey of senior management executives from 90 airlines from around the world by SimpliFlying, which specialises in aviation marketing.
Its annual study, The Airline Socia [...]
Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
The Wrap: Regent introduces new digital platform for global travellers
The weekly news roundup: Regent’s revamped website, Sabre’s hospitality solution & Tripcase integrate, December opening for iconic The Warehouse Hotel
HOSPITALITY: Regent introduces new digital platform for global travellers
Regent Hotels and Resorts has launched its rejuvenated we [...]
