Fly around the world virtually with Flight Centre
Flight Centre Singapore is offering its customers the chance to immerse and transport themselves to a destination of their choice in-store with the launch of the Virtual Reality (VR) experience at its headquarters.The VR experience starts with three destinations –Hoi An in Vietnam, Tokyo in Japan [...]
The Wrap: The best of ASEAN in an e-book
In the news: An e-book on Asean top tourist attractions, Kaligo’s iPhone app, Expedia Singapore’s new loyalty programme, enhanced services on Scoot’s Dreamliner fleet The best of ASEAN in an e-bookFollowing closely on the heels of the formation of the ASEAN Community the region’s national to [...]
The Lion king’s epic journey from keyboards and cakes to CAPA Legend
Things could have turned out very differently for Rusdi Kirana, recipient of the CAPA Legends Award 2015 if he had listened to a official from the Transportation Ministry when he first applied for a licence to start Lion Air.The advice he got was to start a condom factory instead. “If I had listen [...]
Sabre buys Trust Group to boost leadership in hospitality
Consolidation continues – Sabre Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Trust Group of Companies which include Trust International, InnLink and Nexus.“Acquiring the Trust Group is consistent with our stated goal of building on Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ global lead [...]
Winners at Phocuswright’s Travel Innovation Summit
Travel industry research authority, Phocuswright, has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit, held on November 17 and 18, during The Phocuswright Conference in Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.Phocuswright said that each year, innovative companies were selected to demonstrate g [...]
The Wrap: China, Thailand, Hong Kong most favoured destinations for Singapore travellers
In the news: GfK Travelscan report on Singapore travellers, lower booking costs for agents with VANs, AirAsia’s new mobile appChina, Thailand, Hong Kong most favoured destinations for Singapore travellers Travellers in Singapore have chalked up more outbound trips by air in the first three quarter [...]
As travel consolidates, welcome to the land of giants and specialists
Marriott buys Starwood; Accor in talks with Fairmont; Expedia nabs HomeAway – what’s next as the big gets bigger? Marriott buys Starwood. It came probably in a tweet, a Facebook post or a LinkedIn update. Just three words which mean a lot. A heck of a lot.In fact, you could say, in travel indust [...]
The Wrap: Souvenirs and memories – APAC tourists are the world’s top travel spenders
In the news: Visa’s Global Travel Intentions Study 2015 on travel spend, and new NokScoot/Sabre and Eva Air/Travelport partnerships.Souvenirs and memories: APAC tourists are the world’s top travel spenders Travellers from Asia Pacific trumped their counterparts from the rest of the world in inte [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Third Culture Colonialism
As a ‘third culture kid’ (TCK), I never quite felt at home anywhere. Patriotism remained a foreign concept and while it was easy to state, “I am half English and half Singaporean (or Indonesian, technically speaking)” whenever people asked, I never felt like I fitted in with either ‘cultur [...]
Direct is the future – FlyZilla excludes OTAs in new flight metasearch product
Last month travel portal TripZilla sent out a press release to announce the launch of its new flight metasearch, FlyZilla, with a rather bold headline “FlyZilla, the Flight Metasearch that says No to OTAs”.Current flight metasearch engines are dominated by airfares from online travel agencies (O [...]
