The Wrap: Here’s where Chinese travellers are going to welcome the Year of the Dog
In the news: With the Year of the Dog just around the corner we take a look at where the Chinese people are spending the week-long Spring Festival holidays, and how another Singapore company is wooing Chinese visitors to the city-state.
DESTINATIONS: Here’s where Chinese travellers are going to [...]
The Wrap: Meet KATE, the intelligent check-in kiosk
In the news: Robots, interactive guestroom assistants and smart gates grab the headlines this week as airports (Kansai and Dubai) and the hospitality industry leverage new technologies to boost efficiency while enhancing user experience at the same time.
ROBOTICS: Meet KATE, the intelligent check [...]
SIA launches loyalty digital wallet: Travel retailers are clearly hoping blockchain is their Internet 3.0 moment
The hottest word on the block these days is blockchain. Even though it’s been on the periphery for a few years, it’s been in the shadow of the other hotter word, cryptocurrency.
But as the technology underpinning cryptocurrency, it’s been getting more attention of late.
Like everyone els [...]
Now you can use your face to check-in with AirAsia in Malaysia
Everyone can now literally use their face to board an AirAsia flight at Senai International Airport in Johor Bahru, the low cost airline’s southern hub in Malaysia, with the launch of the Fast Airport Clearance Experience System (FACES).
The airline, which owns and operates FACES, proudly touts [...]
How Aaron Sarma ventured into Touristly and a 50% deal with AirAsia
Other than a little exposure to travel during his stint as country manager at Street Deal, a group buying company in Malaysia, Aaron Sarma knew very little about the vertical.
But when he was looking to do his own thing after leaving the daily deals company, the first industry he looked to was tr [...]
Best practices in storytelling, an STB case study: Use your brain and make people happy
Last year, Myfanwy McGregor, co-founder of Adhesive PR in Sydney, had an idea for a campaign – was there a way to measure the happiness levels that Singapore can create?
And so the agency for Singapore Tourism Board worked on a programme where it brought a team of influencers and neuro scientis [...]
STB to unleash passionate marketers and storytellers to support and animate its new brand
Having launched its “Passion Made Possible” brand last year, the success of which depends on unleashing the passion of Singaporeans and residents, the Singapore Tourism Board is investing in building an industry of marketers and storytellers.
As a first step, it has opened its internal Ma [...]
The Wrap: onefinestay launches personalised concierge service
In the news: Higher Living with onefinestay; STB partners with Grab to provide seamless experience to visitors; 250 airlines on board with Travelport's merchandising tool
HOSPITALITY: onefinestay launches new personalised concierge service
For your next stay at any onefinestay’s propert [...]
The I in IT is no longer just ‘Information’
A new year is always a good time to take stock of what went before, in particular in a fast-moving industry like IT. I started 2017 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas seeing technologies that I thought would alter human-technology interaction if they took off, and most have evolved a [...]
Your time is gold and yes, we have yobots to serve you too: The Yotel promise
Walk into Yotel Singapore and you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve stepped into the mission control of a space capsule. The look and feel is white and minimal with splashes of purple.
Two Yobots, one male and one female (distinguished by her eyelashes), catch the eye. Wifi-enabled, the [...]
