Single? Male? 30-something? You’re the perfect airline passenger!
Skyscanner’s first survey of international cabin crew uncovers the good, the bad and the ugly of airline travel.The survey of more than 700 international cabin crew members in 85 countries revealed the perfect airline passenger to be male, in his early 30s and travels alone for pleasure rather th [...]
ASEAN looks to China for tourism growth
According to the UNWTO's World Tourism Barometer report on the first half of 2012, ASEAN countries are some of the fastest growing tourism destinations in the world with China as he biggest growing contributor of international visitor arrivals to the region.International visitor arrivals into Myanma [...]
BeMyGuest aims to plough travel dollars back to local people
Singapore-based BeMyGuest.travel recently went online to provide a new comprehensive way for discerning travellers to contribute the majority of their travel dollars directly to local businesses.The company markets and distributes people's unique travel products across its online and offline chann [...]
Confessions of a travel agent: How we must adapt and fight back
Post-the Abacus International Conference in Seoul in which it told its agent customers of the trends changing the travel business, WIT decided to ask a senior agency owner how he feels about the changes and how he thinks traditional travel agents should respond.He wishes to remain unidentified but w [...]
More affordable luxury city holidays in Asia for Singaporeans
High-end bargains are available despite soaring hotel room rates across the region, according to the findings in the Hotels.comHotel Price Index (HPI) report.Hotel room prices in Asia increased by 4% overall in the first half of 2012 as confidence returned to the market following the Japanese eart [...]
Travelmob raises US$1m seed funding, introduces search personalisation feature
Travelmob, the Asia Pacific -focused social stay marketplace which launched in July, has raised US$1 million in seed funding.Leading the funding round for the Singapore-based company is Jungle Ventures with participation from other prominent, private investors in the region.Turochas Fuad, CEO and [...]
Speakers’ corner: Priceline powers on, Fogel ever mindful of disruption
It was interesting to hear Fan Min, CEO of Ctrip share his vision of the future at the Travel Distribution Summit in China - how China’s largest OTA should evolve into an OTP (Online Travel Platform), and he used the analogy of a gas station where you could buy everything.In contrast, you had [...]
Top travel websites in August
Agoda rules in the online hotel sector for August 2012, capturing the #1 position in the three countries surveyed by Experian Hitwise. (Full details in slides below)AustraliaThe online travel scene in Australia remained consistent for the month of August. Wotif.com continued to edge out second-pla [...]
As search gets disrupted, travel.jp differentiates with curated content
The revolution will always eat its own children, it is said, and just as his company disrupted travel in Japan by introducing search into a very traditional distribution architecture, Kei Shibata is also aware that his business may soon be disrupted by giants such as Google and Apple.“I don’t m [...]
Technology makes remote journeys more accessible, but less unplugged
Uttara Sarkar Crees runs journeys that are as unplugged as they come. Her company, Gyalthang Eco Travel, takes people to remote regions of the Tibetan Plateau and places that are off the beaten track. She talks to WIT about how technology is changing traveller behaviour and how a boutique agency l [...]
