The Millennial Traveller: Stamps of Approval
If you ask someone to see his or her passport, there’s always that nervous flinch that comes from them just before you flick open their information page, followed by a mad rush of excuses as to why their photo is so terrible. “I was mid-blink!” “They don’t let you smile anymore!” “I wa [...]
6 technologies that will change the future of luxury travel
As part of Brand Karma’s Future Luxury Lounge at the International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) Cannes at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès between 1-4 December 2014, the company will feature the following six technologies .DeLorean not required.1. Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Device It won� [...]
How a 16-year-old girl is crowd funding her travels to showcase “the little good things”
I recently spoke to Marla and 16-year old Kasha Slavner from The Global Sunrise Project, a Canadian mother-daughter duo currently travelling the world to understand what it truly means to be a ‘global citizen’.Taking at least six months out of school, Kasha has opted for an education beyond the [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The Lonely Road
I always check in online before heading to the airport. I beat the queues, head straight to the bag drop and before I know it, I’m at security, waving the security guard away as he keenly asks whether I am carrying liquids, a laptop or any obviously lethal weapons like, God forbid, a pair of tweez [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Prepare To Be Surprised
I can’t count how many times I’ve been warned off travelling to certain places. South Africa is too dangerous, all of the Middle East is a warzone, Paris is ‘so overrated’, there’s nothing to do in Amsterdam beyond getting high and visiting the Anne Frank and sex museum in the same afterno [...]
Hong Kongers favour OTAs for travel bookings
Research group GfK, in its Consumer Travel Tracker online survey conducted in Hong Kong, revealed an interesting insight - offline touch points are still heavily used in this developed country by nine in 10 (90%) travellers while 84% used online,However, when it comes to actual transactions online d [...]
Got a great idea? Then go for it
Got a great idea? Then go for it – what do you have to lose?That was what the more than 100 students who gathered for the first WIT*e – Inspiration & Mentoring held at the Fairmont Singapore last week heard during the “Inspiration for Entrepreneurs” panel. Said Morris Sim (left), co-fou [...]
Middle aged travellers leading in social media
Not only are middle aged travellers worth targeting – as highlighted in the recent report by ITB Berlin –but they are also shaping consumer views of the best hotels and holiday destinations at home and abroad through the use of social media.Indeed, tbe Social Travel Report by independent media a [...]
The social networking habits of Asians
More than half of the total online population in the Asia Pacific region visited a social networking site in February 2010, reaching a total of 240.3 million visitors.The latest report from comScore Inc on social networking activity in Asia Pacific (excluding China) based on data from its World Metr [...]
Crisis alert. This is the end as we know it
The media’s full of it. The coffee shop’s full of it. Taxi drivers can’t stop talking about it. Every business meeting I am having these days is peppered with it.Yes, I predict, a little round ball is going to bring the world economy crashing down over the next few weeks. Forget the Green trag [...]
