Share your “food-fies” in Accor’s new social media campaign
Accor Hotels has launched a “Savour, Snap, Share” social media campaign across Asia to bring together social media, food and selfies. Hotel guests and anyone interested in this contest can share “food-fies” (selfies with food) of themselves enjoying culinary delights at any Accor property ar [...]
Taking Travel Massive from fun project to serious business
Travel Massive started off as a fun project by serial entrepreneur Ian Cumming who wanted to connect people in travel. Over the years, it’s grown into a global community, powered by local chapters. Now, backed by a personal investment from Stephan Ekbergh of Travelstart, Cumming wants to turn Trav [...]
BYOC, or how Bring Your Own Content will be bigger than BYOD
This is a guest blog by Filip Filipov, Director, B2B at SkyscannerIn the last five or so years, a lot of digital ink has been used to cover the trend to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), mostly for the enterprise, but also for consumers directly – in-flight entertainment via your iPad or the security [...]
The Wrap: Strong appetite for travel among Southeast Asian globetrotters
In the news: MasterCard survey on Southeast Asian travellers, Wego’s insight on attracting Chinese tourists, fifth London property for Tune Hotels, sales promise from WorldhotelsStrong appetite for travel among Southeast Asian globetrotters A recent MasterCard study reveals 80% of South East Asian [...]
Travel index points to stark generational divide in travel preferences
Findings from the survey conducted for the 2014 Zuji Travel Index suggest your age has a lot to do with your holiday travel preferences; Depending on whether you were born in the seventies (aged 35-44), eighties (aged 25-34) or nineties (aged 24 or under), your idea of what makes for a holiday very [...]
All things green and techie – Hotels.com’s view of 2015
Katherine Cole, regional director at Hotels.com, shares her views on what were the defining changes last year and what’s in store for the year ahead.1. Tell us the thing you personally will remember most about 2014.One of the most prominent events of 2014 was certainly the shift in booking behavio [...]
The Wrap: India has the most public holidays, Mexico the least, reveals Wego
In the news: Public holidays in the world, Ctrip and Amadeus collaborate, Vistara inks deal with Travelport.India has the most public holidays, Mexico the least, reveals Wego If you live in India then you should be very happy as the country has the most number of public holidays at 21 each year, and [...]
What the Global Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Must Learn from the Uber Debacle in Delhi
Douglas Quinby of Phocuswright wrote this article with inspiration from Ram BadrinathanNearly two decades ago, early in my career, I had an opportunity to work in India for a year. One of my goals while there was to learn Hindi, which is actually not an easy thing to do – not because the language [...]
The Wrap: Study shows JAPAC affluent most engaged on mobile at airports
In the news: JAPAC travellers mobile engagement at airports, expansion of services to travel agents through CarTrawler-Abacus partnership, Park Hotels Group's first hotel in Indonesia.Study shows JAPAC affluent most engaged on mobile at airportsThe JAPAC Traveller Report 2014 released by location [...]
Is my personal information the price of access to free data?
The emergence of the consumer as an Info-WhoreFrom an old fashioned point of view, the world we live in today has evolved the very nature of Capitalism. Traditional business models that were founded on the basic concepts of profit from the sale of products and services have been swept away by the di [...]
