The Wrap: Sabre partners with Indian university to incubate its next QA Centre of Excellence
In the news: A Sabre sponsored CoE in Delhi, FASTBOOKING in Japan, Etihad Airways’ new mobile app, top destinations for UAE and Saudi Arabia family travel,
Sabre partners with Indian university incubate to its next QA Centre of Excellence
Sabre has tied up with Indira Gandhi Delhi Tech [...]
Letter from Bali: It’s Indonesia’s time in the digital sun
It’s a full flight. The beginning of a long weekend for Singaporeans and Bali’s always a quick and good two-hour-flight escape for stressed out city folks.There are lots of Australians too on the flight, connecting via Changi which, to no one’s surprise, has just been named “best airport to [...]
Jeju Air, Korea tap on “Descendants of the Sun” star power
Move over, Game of Thrones. Well, at least as Asia is concerned, because even as the world prepared for the launch of Season 6 of the George R Martin series, another phenomenon has been sweeping across Asia in the last few months. Some are calling it the Harry Potter effect – just-concluded Korea [...]
Letter from Penang: The artists who call it home and the making of a festival
It was a wonderful coincidence that on the Sunday I was in Penang to mark the Ching Ming (All Soul’s Day) festival, it happened to be the night for “Whispers of George Town Festival”.It was a sneak preview for media as well as the local artist community to get an idea of what’s in store for [...]
The Wrap: Travellers’ choice of the 10 best islands in Asia
In the news: TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice awards for islands, China Southern and Travelport extend cooperation, Wego app on Xiaomi smart devicesTravellers' choice of the 10 best islands in Asia Summer’s round the corner and it’s vacation time soon for schools in the ASEAN region – time for [...]
Relux uses new funds to expand inbound business on back of Abe’s ambitious targets
Loco Partners, which manages the members-only luxury hotels and ryokan booking site, Relux, will use the latest 500m yen (about US$4.5m) raised to expand its service for Japanese users as well as expand its inbound business for overseas visitors, signaling a step-up in the competition for inbound to [...]
The Wrap: Carlson Rezidor brings Virtual Reality to Radisson Blue’s design programme
In the news: Virtual reality for Radisson Blue's design programme, CarTrawler and Shannon Airport collaborate, TripAdvisor’s report on best time to book hotels, Langham Hospitality Group’s new corporate websiteCarlson Rezidor brings Virtual Reality to Radisson Blue's design programme Carlson Rez [...]
The Millennial Traveller: To earn customer love, hoteliers have to be modern-day Casanovas
Traditionally, customer loyalty could be gained by a simple reward structure, trading in loyalty points for free nights like a kid trading in his arcade game tokens for the large teddy bear from the kiosk.Now, with digital players like OTAs and meta-searches commoditising hotel rates, hoteliers need [...]
KLM expands social media strategy with launch of Facebook Messenger service
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has partnered with Facebook Messenger to launch a service that allow travellers to check-in, access boarding pass and receive flight status updates through the app.This makes KLM the first global airline to provide these services on Messenger.The new partnership makes it eas [...]
“Safe travels” is the greeting for the new normal
Over dinner in Bangkok, while drooling over the best crab angel hair pasta ever at Il Bolognese, our conversation inevitably moved to travel. The three of us, all working in the travel industry, had flown in from different places, one from Taipei, one from India and myself from Singapore via Hong Ko [...]
