Confessions of an airline miles hunter: Building Mileslife is harder than a self-drive in Western Africa
He says his hardest trip ever was a self-drive in Western Africa. Over a month, he crossed three countries. Road conditions were terrible and he kept hitting police checkpoints everywhere and at each point, he never knew if he would be arrested or released.
“It was a very hard trip,” says Tro [...]
Letter from Delhi & Shanghai: Meet the two giants shaking up travel & Asia
As I stood at the immigration queue at Delhi airport, just two days after I had departed Shanghai, I was mindful that I had just gone from one mega city to another, two giants that are leading what experts are calling the Asia Decade, or maybe the next two Decades.
In terms of population, both ar [...]
The Wrap: Meet IVALO, the Tinder for fashion
In the news: IVALO, a mobile shopping app for high fashion, new presidents for Genting Hong Kong, York Hotel Singapore’s revamped website, mobile boarding for more Jetstar's destinations
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: MEET IVALO, THE TINDER FOR FASHION
See a beautiful dress that you like and want to [...]
‘Cash is King’: How revenue is reshaping frequent flyer programmes
Frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) and how they are now more revenue aware is the subject of a new report in the ‘2017 thought leadership series on revenue and loyalty from CarTrawler.
Produced as a joint initiative with IdeaWorksCompany, Cash is King: Revenue Now Rules Frequent Flyer Programme A [...]
Rail: the time to get onboard is now and here’s how
For all the current chatter about new technology, there is an age-old travel product that is now demanding new attention.
According to Amadeus’ white paper on rail travel in Asia – Changing Tracks: Five make-or-break factors for rail travel in Asia Pacific – momentum is building. It also no [...]
Singapore’s Aviato wins AirAsia’s inaugural hackathon
Team Aviato from Singapore has taken the top prize in AIRVOLUTION 2017, AirAsia's first hackathon, which set the challenge of profiling the airline's fans based on their digital social footprint to improve customer experience.
The Singaporeans beat the other 19 teams at the end of the 18-hour eve [...]
Think cities in ASEAN and tech disruption will play out differently in region
While the world’s attention is focused on North Asia, spare a thought for South-east Asia whose potential is immense and is developing at a rapid pace fuelled by a growing middle class whose behavior will be shaped differently by technology.
Fraser Thompson, director, AlphaBeta, speaking at [...]
WIT Hospitality dives deep into the new hospitality environment
The new, reimagined environment that hotels and hotel-related suppliers are operating within can be tricky to navigate. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, chats, disruption, alternative accommodation, are some words and concepts hotels have been having to confront these days.
T [...]
flyiin gets “excited about travel again” building alternative “semi-direct distribution channel” to rival OTAs and meta-search engines
flyiin has built a new distribution model “from scratch”, based on the International Air Transport Association’s latest distribution standard, known as New Distribution Capability (NDC), and is ready to enter a beta phase with Lufthansa Group as its first partner airline.
flyiin claims it [...]
How hotels can maximise revenue through distribution, reveals new Sabre/Phocuswright report
A new white paper by Sabre Hospitality Solutions and Phocuswright discusses the decisions hoteliers must make in the channel optimisation process, as well as implement an effective strategy that will maximise the ROI (return on investment) of both direct and indirect channels.
Sabre says the repo [...]
