Carlson Wagonlit foresees moderate rate increase for 2013
Prices in most areas of travel spend are expected to grow modestly around the globe next year, with the most significant inflation expected throughout APAC and Latin America, according to Carlson Wagonlit Travel 2013 Travel Price Forecast."Price increases in 2013 will begin to level off in most r [...]
Top travel websites in June – Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Data from Experian Hitwise shows the same players in the three countries dominated the online scene last month as in May, with Wotif.com, Jipiao.trip.taobao.com and Expedia Singapore topping the list.See slideshow below for the full details.Australia • The Australia online travel scen [...]
Webb tips something “big and good” from Red App Centre, sees Asia at inflexion point
Greg Webb, president of Sabre Travel Network, believes “something big and good” will come out of the Sabre Red App Centre, its B2B marketplace which is open for developers to develop apps and sell them to its travel agents.Since its launch, it’s had 1,000 app downloads from 42 countries and m [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AirAsia sets up in Jakarta to prepare for next decade of growth
AirAsia’s rapid growth in the last 10 years, from an airline with a "fleet" of two ageing Boeing B737 aircraft, six domestic routes and 250 Malaysian staff, calls for a major shift in its perspective, strategy and operations if it is to sustain its trajectory.The airline also needs to pivot to a [...]
Discovering Kuala Lumpur the TripAdvisor way
TripAdvisor recently announced it added 30 global travel destinations to its offline mobile City Guides (for iPhone and Android) including Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Hearing good things about these guides, I decide to test drive my adopted city of residence – Kuala Lumpur.In the course of my wo [...]
Interest in Myanmar on the rise
TripAdvisor revealed that travellers have shown significantly more interest in Myanmar as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won a parliamentary seat in the country's by-elections in April.There was a sharp rise in travellers’ searches on Myanmar by 70% across TripAdvisor branded sites [...]
All-Star OTA panel takes the spotlight at WIT Japan
Picture shows from left: Wilfred Fan, Director North Asia, Agoda; Johan Svanstrom, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Hotels.com; Dan Lynn, CEO, AAE Travel (AirAsiaExpedia), Masabumi Mori, IKYU.com; Suguru Tomizuka, Recruit (Jalan); Toshiyuki Imai, JTB (i.JTB) and Masashi Okatake, Rakuten Travel. Co [...]
