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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AccorHotels plays into co-living space with new brand JO&JOE
AccorHotels has launched a new brand, JO&JOE, "designed to meet the expectations of millennials and all those who value sharing, spontaneity and experience.”
The hotel group describes the new brand as "a vibrant living space" and "one that "was co-constructed with its future guests and disr [...]
Two years on, here’s why Oracle bought Micros Systems – a new Hospitality Cloud
Two years after Oracle bought Micros Systems in June 2014, the buyer is finally ready to launch what it calls its game-changing Oracle Hospitality suite of solutions, revolving around a new dedicated Oracle Hospitality Cloud, within the Oracle V2 Infrastructure.
It’s clear the integration of MI [...]
Why travel needs to go cross-device
This is a guest blog by Russell Young, managing director, Asia Pacific, Sojern
Strategy Analytics estimates that by 2020, there will be 33 billion (yes, billion) connected devices worldwide. This means that every man, woman and child will have 4.3 devices each. People are already searching and bo [...]
