China’s tourism industry moves into the world, Samsung to preinstall Wego on its smartphones, is your website built to deliver results? and how serviced apartments found their mojo.

China’s tourism industry moves into the world
Wednesday, 3rd April 2019

Following the lead of Chinese outbound customers, but also searching for business from the other 88% of global travellers, travel and tourism companies like Ctrip, JinJiang International, Alibaba’s Fliggy, Tongcheng-eLong, Meituan, and others are moving out of China >>

Samsung to preinstall Wego on its smartphones
3 Apr 2019 : Wego has partnered with Samsung Electronics, to incorporate their travel application into Samsung smartphones, over 40% of travelers in the Middle East use smartphones to book their holidays >>

News from around the APAC region
3 Apr 2019 : Hotel industry and travel news from around the Asia Pacific region: Singapore’s GIC acquires a 25% equity stake in citizenM, China's booming hotel construction pipeline, Ascott Residence Trust acquires Felix Hotel and more >>

Lifestyle Concepts Group launches new optimized website
2 Apr 2019 : Hong Kong based no-nonsense hospitality & restaurant consulting firm, Lifestyle Concepts Group Limited is pleased to announce the launch of it’s totally revamped website >>

Millennium launches new business product
2 Apr 2019 : Breathing new life into their previous offering, Business Direct, the new digital programme has been created for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), empowering them to manage team travel with flexibility and ease >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Is Your Property's Website Built to Deliver Results?
Wednesday, 3rd April 2019

You can have the prettiest, most visually pleasing website ever created, and it will fall flat on its digital face if it’s not optimised properly, it’s like starting the year’s work off without a strategy.

What you’re producing might be great but with such a key piece of the puzzle missing, the results won’t manifest >>

How Serviced Apartments Found Their Mojo
One of my favorite spaces in the accommodation space today is serviced apartments and irrespective of your thoughts on Christianity or evolution, there is one thing that most cultural camps can agree on: Caves were amongst the earliest accommodation offerings >>

Put A Spring in Your SEO Strategy
We’ve given you the SEO essentials before, but no harm revisiting for the time of year that’s in it! As with everything in this industry, practises change and update rapidly all the time, so to be constantly learning is key >>

Gonna Have To Face It We’re Addicted to: Everything?! Digital Addictions In The Workplace
Cell phones, video games, YouTube, TV, iPads, Kindles, online gaming, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Stream, click, stream, repeat and as the years go on, so too does the list of things to which people become addicted >>

Redefining 'Environ-mental Impact' in Cruise
The Fusion of Wellness, Design, & Hospitality: A 2.5-Million-Year-Old Business Concept: 'Wellness' sounds trendy, but the concept has always been inherent to the hospitality industry its beginning is arguably rooted in historic spa locations where mineral-rich waters were used for medicinal baths. Belief in the restorative powers of such waters actually dates to prehistoric times >>

Yes, Hiring Managers Will Check Your Social Media Accounts
Social media has provided our culture with the chance to connect with one another and to form communities that otherwise may not have been possible without the digital platform, so just as you can use social media platforms to connect with lost friends and distant relatives—or form new friendships and nurture current relationships—so can others use the platform to perform background checks or glean information about you >>