Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Low cost airlines warned to cut the promotion hype
Featured stories from TravelWeekly: Low cost airlines and promotions hype, Chinese love affair with Australia, rabies in BaliLow cost airlines warned to cut the promotion hypeThailand has told budget airlines they must be more transparent with their special offers during promotion campaigns.Local me [...]
Game-changer in the making? Ascott teams up with Tujia, CapitaLand gets serious about IT
The private accommodation and real estate market in China and Asia just got a whole lot more interesting with the latest move by Singapore-based CapitaLand to invest in and form a joint venture with Tujia.com, Beijing-based apartment sharing site.CapitaLand is one of Asia’s largest real estate com [...]
2014 airline ancillary revenue soars to $38.1b, up nearly 21%
For the eighth consecutive year, 63 airlines reported substantial increases in revenue from retail activities and the sale of a la carte services and frequent flier miles.The highlights:• Ancillary revenue per passenger is $17.49, 8.5% more than the 2013 result.• Activity among low cost carriers [...]
Corporate travel in disruption: Concur’s news at GBTA part of change sweeping the sector
From a partnership with Lufthansa that will enable business travelers to book direct on LH.com to one with services like Lfyt and HotelTonight, Concur's announcements made at this week's Global Business Travel Associatoon (GBTA) Convention in Orlando are all part of changes sweeping the lucrative co [...]
Russians generous with hotel reviews, UAE travellers most demanding
The scores are in – that is for hotel reviews. Russian travellers have emerged as the most generous in rating hotels and tend to give the highest scores, while travellers from the UAE are the most demanding.These were the results of the recent Travel Smarts survey by leading accommodation site, Ag [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Locally grown, locally eaten as ‘farm to table’ catches on
Hooray! The ‘farm to table’ concept has finally picked up in Singapore. Marketing strategies have shifted from boasting about the vast distances the piece of perfectly seared steak has travelled for your enjoyment to showing off the restaurant’s humble rooftop garden that yields just enough mi [...]
Six global hot spots drive air travel price increases despite flat forecast for 2016
India, China, Colombia, Mexico, Singapore and Australia are the six hot spots where increased business travel demand is pushing up global air prices despite signs that they will be essentially flat in 2016.The findings are from the 2016 Global Travel Price Outlook, a research paper from the GBTA Fou [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Bali flights cancelled again due to ash cloud
Featured stories from TravelWeekly: Closure of Bali airport due to ash cloud, Airbnb’s new services for business travellers, Grand Hyatt’s strategies for the MICE marketBali flights cancelled again due to ash cloudThere was more misery for passengers flying between Australia and Bali on Wednesda [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Wanted – secret agents to snoop on luxury hotels
Featured stories from TravelWeekly: SLH search for mystery hotel inspectors, an "invasion" of the HOGS in Bali, more Hong Kong’s events to drive businessWanted: secret agents to snoop on luxury hotelsSmall Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) has launched a global search to find 25 new hotel inspector [...]
Study reveals how travellers choose to book hotels
The cleaniliness of a hotel or the availability of free and fast WiFi could be key to a traveller choosing the property over another, which does not provide such services. This is revealed in a study by TrustYou, the global online reputation management tool, and Donna Quadri-Felitti, director of th [...]
