Fun before trust for Singapore travellers
Who do you like to travel with? Someone like you or someone totally unlike you? Well, a new survey by hotels.com reveals insights into Singapore travellers that may or may not surprise you.Firstly, Singapore travellers prefer to flock with the same-feathered birds - 61% indicated that having simila [...]
Internet savvy Arab travellers going online to shop
With growing confidence in ecommerce sites and the safety of web-based transactions, travellers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are rapidly changing the way in which they purchase their flights and hotel nights.Wego is seeing UAE travellers taking control of their own itineraries as they realise [...]
The changing face of the Chinese traveller
The Chinese middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States. In 15 years the Chinese middle class will reach 800 million from 300 million today. Over the next five years affluent Chinese consumers will grow from four million to 20 million. It has changed and will cont [...]
Tourism Australia bets big on social media, 25% of digital budget goes on Facebook channel
The numbers from Tourism Australia are staggering – 3,184,016 “Likes” with 395,424 talking about it on its Facebook page(as at time of writing), 1,400 photos posted on its (Facebook) wall per week and 500 to 1,000 photos uploaded via Instagram per day.Throw in its official Pinterest page� [...]
How the top travel websites performed in May
Expedia Singapore rules as the top online travel agency in Singapore for May, while Jipiao.trip.taobao.comleads the pack in Hong Kong and Wotif.com maintains the top spot in Australia.Below is a summary of how the regions’s top travel websties performed for May according to data from Experian Hit [...]
Demand for corporate travel stabilises, air fares ruled by economic unknowns
While airfares across the Asia-Pacific region saw domestic fares increase just 1%, fares to the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region fell 1% and intra-Asia fares remained flat in the first quarter of 2012, fares to the Americas rose 2%. According to the recently released 2012 American [...]
New gen South-east Asians redefining travel to Australia
A new generation of South-east Asians travelling to Australia is effectively redefining the market, according to a poll commissioned by leading Asia/Pacific travel metasearch site,Wego.com.The study revealed that traditional group travel is in decline and Singaporean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vi [...]
Hanoi cheapest, London most expensive, Singapore not-so-cheap either
TripAdvisor's TripIndexTM 2012, a cost comparison of an evening out for two people in 48 key tourist cities around the world, rates Hanoi as the cheapest and London as the most expensive city, with Singapore ranked among top 10 most expensive. The TripAdvisor TripIndex is tracked against the US [...]
Wego’s global and digital queen – the face of a new travel generation
Blanca Menchaca was born in Mexico, studied in Australia and now lives in Singapore. She flies around the world on a regular basis, thinks nothing of heading to Norway for a long weekend, and believes a flight of 30 hours is ‘not really that long’. To refer to Menchaca as a global citizen is the [...]
It’s time for tourism in ASEAN to grow up
Willem Niemeijer (pictured below right),
CEO and co-founder of the
Khiri Travel Group, Thailand shares his thoughts on the direction the ASEAN tourism industry should take to realise its full potential. We reproduce his full blog below:The tourism debate at the World Economic Forum on Eas [...]
