TODAY: Chinese Travelers’ hotel habits and preferences, Hotels and Wholesalers: Breaking Point? and Why You Should Be Listening To What Your Voice Agents Are Saying Right Now To Potential Guests.

Chinese Travelers’ hotel habits and preferences
Tuesday, 25th September 2018

China is the largest outbound travel market in the world, with 130 million outbound trips and a collective spend of more than $258 billion on international travel in 2017 according to UNWTO.

Chinese millennials born after 1990 are pushing the boundaries of international travel, increasing their travel expenditure in the past year by a staggering 80 percent to fund social media-influenced trips full of edgy experiences, high tech accommodation, exotic delicacies and taboo ticket-items >>

Rosewood celebrates friendships with new brand initiative
25 Sep 2018 : Rosewood Hotels & Resorts® announces the launch of #RosewoodGirlfriends, a new brand initiative that celebrates lifelong friendships and the ways in which they are enriched by travel >>

300 great minds lead the charge in data and tech
25 Sep 2018 : As data lakes grow and machine learning becomes more commonplace, the travel industry gets closer to attaining the level of analytics prowess that we see in sectors like retail and cybersecurity >>

Six Senses to open Krabey Island, Cambodia in December
25 Sep 2018 : Six Senses Krabey Island is set on a 30-acre private tropical island located three miles off Ream National Park in southern Cambodia. Sihanouk International Airport is served by flights from Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur >>

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Hotels and Wholesalers: Breaking Point?
Tuesday, 25th September 2018

Before the internet turned the hotel industry on its head, wholesalers and bedbanks were the backbone of room distribution, Hotels sold their rooms to a wholesaler, who sold them to a travel agency, who sold them to the end customer.

A markup at every stage meant every party profited. We all know what happened next. The internet came along, online travel boomed, and hotel distribution systems didn’t keep up >>

Why You Should Be Listening To What Your Voice Agents Are Saying Right Now To Potential Guests
On the surface, the numbers might even support this as web booking continue to grow while voice bookings decline. However, many of those who book online started out by first calling the hotel; others call after booking but prior to arrival. Therefore, there is an “interplay” between voice and online channels >>

Plug & Play Travel Plans Launch in Singapore to Bridge Gap Between Innovators and Corporations
Plug & Play Tech Center, the Silicon Valley-based company that bridges the gap between innovators and corporations, is looking to launch its Travel & Hospitality vertical in Singapore to plug into what it feels is a market gap waiting to be addressed >>

What Does Culinary Creation for a 3* Restaurant Involve?
Running a restaurant is a big undertaking: For a three star restaurant to reach that level and maintain it, takes a lot of work and knowledge--in fact, there are only three restaurants that have been awarded three Michelin stars in Switzerland, as of 2017 >>