Don’t mess with HK Airlines girls, they kick butt
Next time you fly with Hong Kong Airlines, don’t mess with their cabin attendants – they can literally kick butt.In the age of differentiate or die, the airline is pulling a new public relations stunt - literally. It has revealed that all operational flight attendants are now fully Wing Chun m [...]
TripAdvisor’s top hotels for families
TripAdvisor’s 2012 Travellers’ Choice award-winning Hotels for Families features 504 properties in 25 markets around the world including Asia, Australia, South Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, Europe and United States.In Asia, Club Med Sahoro – Karikachi Kogen in Shintoku-cho, Japan (pictured be [...]
The best ideas are collaborative; we learnt this in a classroom
It’s been a while since I sat in a classroom for more than an hour but last Saturday, I found myself sitting for four hours at an SMU (Singapore Management University) World Travel & Tourism Class – and guess what, the time just flew.I was there with Sue Heilbronner, CEO of TravelShark, wh [...]
Here’s how we do it at Scoot, says ‘Chief Cash Cow’
Proving that customers are motived by low fares, Scoot, Singapore’s new low cost airline, sold 30,000 seats in less than a week after it announced S$88 fares for its launch flights to Sydney.“We are an online retailer that just happens to sell flights,” said Scoot’s head of commercial, Ste [...]
Pinterest – or should it be called Finterest?
There was a certain irony to the fact that while the panelists on the webinar were discussing the rise of Pinterest and the descent ofTwitter, we, the audience, were busy posting our comments on Twitter.But such are the contradictions of social media and, perhaps, the logic of women?The webinar I [...]
Roomorama’s lofty goal to become ‘Expedia’ of short-term accommodation
Roomorama.com, which merged with Lofty.com yesterday in a deal which also brought seed funding of US$2.1 million, aims to be the biggest online marketplace for professionally-managed properties by year end.The merger, which sees Lofty.com being rebranded Roomorama (the website declares the name ch [...]
Focus, execution, people – ingredients for success, says Parkitny
Today, April 4, marks the last day for Jens Uwe Parkitny at Expedia, the organization that changed travel all those years ago. Parkitny, managing director of Expedia Affiliate Network, Asia Pacific, for the last 3.5 years speaks to WIT about his journey with the global brand which brought him to Ho [...]
Welcome to the Land of Social Smiles
With WITX-Women In Travel taking place in Bangkok on April 27, these findings make interesting reading into Thailand's online travel market - welcome to the Land of Social Smiles.The inaugural report on Thailand’s Internet usage by comScore Media Metrix service found social networking the mos [...]
A happy wife is a happy life: Google’s view of travel
“A happy wife is a happy life.” Who would have thought one would hear those words uttered at the Google ThinkTravel event held in Singapore on Wednesday.Loren Schuster (left), managing director of Google Singapore started the day by recounting a one-month trip he and his wife made while he was [...]
How Daphne survived on social media alone in London
In the end, it was the cold that turned out to be the biggest challenge for Daphne Chui, the Singaporean girl, who took on the CanMan social media experiment of surviving in London for five days on social media alone.The experiment, which took place during Social Media Week, saw Martin Pasquier [...]
