The future of car rental: customers vote for WiFi over safety
Guest post written by CarTrawlerIf you asked people what they would like to see available in rental cars of the future, what would you expect to hear? Driverless cars? Virtual tour guides? How about solar-powered cars? These are just a few of the preferences selected by car rental customers partic [...]
Free business solution for SMEs and SMIs from AccorHotels
AccorHotels has launched a free solution, AccorHotels Business Solution, for SMEs and SMIs, which will allow them to manage online their travel policy and bookings in 2,800 hotels around the world.To access this service customers just have to create an online account in the Pro Solutions section of [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Travel agents have major role to play in China cruise market
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: Travel Weekly China’s inaugural CruiseWorld China conference, visa-free entry to Indonesia for more countries, Bollywood tourism ambassador for New ZealandTravel agents have major role to play in China cruise marketThe huge growth of the cruise market in Ch [...]
Blood moons, baristas and rebooting your world
The idea of “Reboot” came to me while I was on Samui island, relaxing in a private villa by the beach. It was the weekend after WIT 2014 had just ended and this was my annual retreat to unwind.We had just marked “Little Big 10”, the first WIT after the acquisition by Northstar Travel Media. [...]
The Wrap: Business travel taking off for Booking.com
In the news: Booking.com’s business reservations on the rise, SITA’s survey on Australian air passengers, new country director for FASTBOOKING in Thailand, Trisara Phuket’s virtual reality tour, Business travel taking off for Booking.comBooking.com reveals that more and more of its leisure tra [...]
Stick to your “loyalty machines”, it’s a shark-eat-shark world out there
Amadeus’ distribution chief Holger Taubmann speaks to WIT about “loyalty machines”, Lufthansa’s Direct Connect strategy, RyanAir’s Amazonian ambitions, Accor Marketplace’s aspirations and swimming with the big sharks.For all the talk about direct distribution, and suppliers wanting to go [...]
Heritage Race heads to Bangkok to uncover local stories
The Heritage Race, which was run in Singapore in 2014 and 2015, will travel to Bangkok on November 29.A travel industry-led event created to uncover local stories about places and to raise funds for good causes, the Bangkok Heritage Race is organised by local travel industry volunteers and WIT, and [...]
The “reboot” of Alan Joyce and Qantas: How an Irish working class lad became high-flying executive
If ever there’s a reboot story, it is that of Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas, personally and how he led and engineered the biggest airline turnaround possibly in the history of aviation.During the CAPA Aviation Awards night in Helsinki, of which I was the emcee, Joyce picked up both the Airline Turnaro [...]
The Wrap: AirAsia Japan taking a second shot, take-off in 2016
In the news: Second edition of AirAsia Japan, survey on youth travel by ITB Berlin, MyTeksi’s new safety featureAirAsia Japan taking a second shot, take-off in 2016When AirAsia’s joint venture with All Nippon Airways (ANA), then known as AirAsia Japan, ended in June 2013 Tan Sri Tony Fernandes [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: There’s life beyond Angkor Wat
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: New marketing plan by six Greater Mekong Subregion countries, Hollywood star power for Emirates, debate on number of pilots in airlinesThere’s life beyond Angkor WatThe six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries - Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic R [...]
