Letter from Sydney: Winter’s coming, a battle of Amazonic proportions is looming
Winter in Sydney is very different from the winter portrayed in the Game of Thrones television series but I get the feeling that the competition for online consumers is going to get as brutal and bloody in the next year or so, and travel will be caught up in the quest for the Iron Throne.
The [...]
On the Rocks, Hoshino talks ryokans, minpaku and recognition
I suppose when you work in travel, you shouldn’t be surprised who you run into so when I heard that Hoshino Resorts was having a media lunch in Sydney the week I happened to be in town, I gatecrashed it.
I wanted to catch up with Yoshiharu Hoshino, who wants to take his fourth-generation fa [...]
The Wrap: MBC Group, Middle East’s leading multimedia company, invests in Wego
In the news: MBC Groups’s investment in Wego, Cathay Pacific’s partnership with Alibaba Group, SIA’s creative inflight safety video unveiled
ONLINE TRAVEL: MBC Group, Middle East’s leading multimedia company, invests in Wego
Last week travel search site Wego announced it has recei [...]
Marriott teams up with Alibaba to woo Chinese outbound travellers
Marriott International and Chinese e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, have formed a new joint venture "to redefine the travel experience for the hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers travelling abroad and domestically every year.”
The JV leverages Marriott’s portfolio of more than 6,200 [...]
Voice, NDC, airline retailing and even survival of travel agents (yes, again) provide lively banter on CAPA panel
As a conference moderator, you could say it is a better problem to have to shut the panel up because they can’t stop talking, then to have to continually goad them to say more.
The former of which is precisely what Yeoh Siew Hoon, founder & editor of Web In Travel (WIT), had to contend [...]
A ‘solid’ H12017 for Travelport in line with expectations of steady growth
Travelport has reported a “solid” second quarter and half year ended June 30, 2017 with net revenue increasing 1% to US$612 million.
Travel Commerce Platform revenue rose 2% to US$584 million, with Asia Pacific contributing primarily to this increase due to a 4% increase in both Reported Segmen [...]
No goosing around for Air New Zealand as it changes the world map
You should take your business seriously but you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously, that was the key message from Christopher Luxon, CEO Air New Zealand, as he shared how the 77-year-old airline had achieved 15 years of consecutive profitability and 13 years of positive dividends.
Of course, [...]
Jetstar’s bets on digital, data 4 years ago paying off
Jayne Hrdlicka, CEO of Jetstar Group, painted a picture as sunny as the weather outside for her airline at this week’s CAPA Aviation Summit in Sydney.
Opening the two-day conference, she said, “The global economy is in its best shape since the GFC. We are carrying 37 million passengers now, t [...]
The Wrap: Indonesia gets on board with AirAsia and Adobe for tourism promotion
In the news: Indonesia’s new tourism partners, AccorHotels’ move into collaborative workspace, two new travel companies for Flight Centre
DESTINATIONS: Indonesia gets on board with AirAsia and Adobe for tourism promotion
Indonesia is entering into partnerships to promote itself as the [...]
Startups in ASEAN: Time to look to China, not US, for lessons
If there was one clear message coming out from investors in the tech space at the Techsauce Global Summit in Bangkok last week, it was – it’s time for startups in Southeast Asia to stop looking to the US for role models; instead they should look to China.
A panel of investors, specialising in [...]
