Unplugged 480: An experiment in survival. Are you game?
When my god-daughter was undertaking a 40-hour famine at her college in Adelaide to raise awareness of world hunger, she was asked to give up two out of three things – food, furniture and technology.She chose food and furniture. “I felt I couldn’t live without technology.”On the walk to th [...]
Silk Road adventure awaits winner of Tune Hotels Facebook contest
Tune Hotels is hosting the “Adventure on the Silk Road” contest on its Facebook page, and the winner will join 30 other explorers in the month-long four-wheel drive overland expedition spanning over 10,000 kilometres along China’s stretch of the Silk Road.The journey, slated to start on Au [...]
Dream on but remember it’s also about the stamina
Rita Goh, a regular WIT attendee, shares her impressions of the WITNext Summercamp and what she walked away with personally.It was a hot Thursday afternoon at the Singapore Management University Administration Building and within an hour’s registration before the start of WITnext Summercamp at th [...]
Wego picks Jakarta as its mobile & social centre of excellence
In the past six months Wego has doubled its investment in Indonesia. Its team, operating out of new offices in Kuningan, Jakarta is expected to grow to 50 by the end of the year, and they will spearhead the company's mobile product and social media development."Indonesia is a market of high strateg [...]
New players giving new spin to the term ‘accommodation’
Talking to my hotelier friends in Asia, I am amazed by how many of them are still unaware of players like Airbnb and 9flats and not to mention, the rest that came along in the new wave of businesses offering different styles of accommodation for travellers.Across Asia now, we have Roomorama w [...]
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� [...]
You feeling stressed? Take the Travel Stress Index test
According to the United Nations International Labour Organisation, over 40% of employees suffer from stress on a worldwide basis.Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) said as the company’s continued focus is on the business traveller, the CWT Solutions Group developed the CWT Travel Stress Index to [...]
How to get that dream job and build a career with purpose
One of the most common refrains I heard from tourism professionals who attended the WITNext Summercamp was, I wished there’d been an event like this when I was just starting out in my career.And thank goodness for my team and I, the 250 of you who attended over the two days seemed to agree and no [...]
Burufly packs curated content and social sharing to fly in Indonesia
Burufly, a new Indonesian travel start-up launched yesterday, wants to make it easy for everyone to plan their next holiday in Indonesia – and that means going beyond Bali. Founder Pete Goldsworthy shares the business case.Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
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Priceline’s fleet of fighter jets continues to soar
At more than 425,000 room nights booked a day, of which 325,000 come fromBooking.com, you’d be forgiven for likening the Priceline Group to an A380 but Adrian Currie prefers to think of it as a fleet of fighter jets, each winging its own way to success. Currie, Priceline Group Board Management M [...]
