Case study: Via Vai Travel’s educational programmes
WHO Via Vai Travel is a Hong Kong-based travel company specialising in cultural trips to various parts of the world.
WHAT Via Vai Travel sends groups of...
ITB Academy offers free webinars for Asian travel trade
ITB Academy is organising two complimentary webinars on the topic of German-speaking source markets in Central Europe – understanding tourists from Germany, Austria and...
Amadeus launches travel expert e-commerce seminars
AMADEUS will organise a series of e-commerce seminars in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan to educate travel agencies on how to leverage...
A market for same-day tours
WHO Sabah-based Borneo Trails Tours & Travel is a decade-old inbound tour company helmed by general manager KL Tan, who is also vice president...
Increased content, interaction drives visibility: TripAdvisor
HOTELS with a greater number of reviews, photos and videos see a notable increase in travellers’ interaction with their property pages, according to a...
Going online to solicit tour feedback
From left: Blue Mountains; Bay of Fires
WHO Life’s An Adventure is a Sydney-based small-group, guided ecotour company operating in New South Wales and Tasmania.
Business...
Religious travel gains followers
The forthcoming canonisation of Pedro Calungsod – the 17th century martyr from Cebu and the second Filipino saint – in the Vatican City on...
South African Tourism’s online training campaign
SOUTH African Tourism (SAT) has kicked off its 2012 Fundi (South African Expert) in Japan, South Korea, China and Hong Kong last month.
A three-month...
GDS players roll out mobile-ready tools
Travelport and Amadeus have unveiled new web-based solutions to offer Asia-Pacific travel consultants access to their respective GDSs via the Internet, allowing them to...
Marina Mandarin’s mobile solution to labour crunch
WHO
Marina Mandarin Singapore recently took the radical step of adopting an integrated mobile technology system to improve customer service levels, a move said to...
