Top 10 social media marketing tips for hotels
Here are our Top 10 tips for hotel social media marketing. We have put these together from daily hands on experience performing internet marketing for our hotels. It is the best list of practical ideas that can be implemented right away.1. Have a Blog to post information on activities, attractions, [...]
Part Two: Bringing design thinking into social media
In part one of this post we talked about some of the basics of Design Thinking and how they are relevant to engaging consumers using Social Media.We talked about the sweet spot of Design Thinking being where three key considerations meet. They are:Human – is it desirable?Business – is it via [...]
My life in a Continental Deli
Rabat-Paris-Cardiff – as unlikely a combination as you will find on any traveller’s itinerary – but hey, that’s what travel is about these days, the ability to mix and match according to desires and circumstances.Rabat (left) wasn’t the easiest place to get into. I won’t bore you with th [...]
Moving a colossal temple site in Egypt. It’s possible!
The flies are attacking me! The air is much cleaner than in Cairo, yet now we have pesky flies all around, all the time. Agh!Situated just 43 km from the Sudanese border, this small Nubian town of 7,000 people has two colossal temples as its claim to fame – the monumental temple of Ramses II and [...]
More growth, more OTA intermediation, predicts ZUJI’s Roshan Mendis
Roshan Mendis, CEO, ZUJI/Travelocity Asia Pacific, shares his views on what lies in store for Online Travel Agents in the new year.Q: What are the three things you think will happen in the online travel agency space in 2011?Significant growth, more players entering the fray, great amount of OTA inte [...]
Mims takes on mammoth task of global sales at Sands
The day I met up with John Mims, the new senior vice president-worldwide sales and resorts marketing for the Sands Corp, the Marina Bay Sands was due to have its official grand opening.Mims, who just joined the group a few weeks ago, was whisked off from Las Vegas to Singapore in one of the Sands’ [...]
Meet a modern day Marco Polo with 10 phones, 3 tablets and oh yes, he tweets too
The other day I met Steve Kleinschmidt - CEO of the Marco Polo Hotel Group. He was here in Singapore with a large part of his team to talk about Marco Polo’s planned return to Singapore and to conduct a GM roadshow. Following a great chat about the Marco Polo plans, Social Media and what it me [...]
Luxury lifestyle resort brand, akyra, launches at ITB
akyra Chura Samui on Koh Samui’s trendy Chaweng Beach is the first property under the akyra brand. It will open in June with 62 stylish suites and rooms, a lavish spa â�¨with his and hers meditation rooms, free Wi-Fi throughout the resort, a well-stocked library and stylish Galleria boutiqu [...]
Reviews take hold in China as travellers contribute and consume content
The role of reviews in influencing Chinese traveller decisions is gaining in importance as more Chinese contribute reviews as well as read them as part of their travel shopping.According to PhoCusWright's recent Asia Pacific and Global Edition report, Traveler Reviews and Social Media in China, over [...]
Indians and Brazilians most eager to travel next year
Indians and Brazilians are planning more holiday trips, German travel plans remain stable in 2011, while Americans are exercising extreme caution. These travel trends for 2011 are revealed in a representative survey commissioned by ITB Berlin and compiled by the consultancy IPK International.With ec [...]
