The inaugural Direct Booking Summit: Asia-Pacific will be touching down in Singapore on February 27-28. In anticipation of what promises to be an unforgettable event, we've been catching up with our best-in-class speakers about direct bookings, the APAC hotel industry and what the future holds.
For at least the past year, the travel industry, and especially the luxury sector, has latched onto the idea of "transformative travel" as the new "experiential travel."First coined in 2016 by the founders of an adventure travel company, Jake Haupert and Michael Bennet, who both lead the Transformational Travel Council, the term is meant to describe any travel experience that empowers people to make meaningful or lasting changes in their lives.
Online travel agencies (OTAs) operating in the European travel market find themselves in an interesting position in 2018. On the one hand, these intermediaries have been instrumental in the maturation of the region's online travel marketplace, and the key players in the category are household names among European travelers.
Thanks to a bevy of flight deals and new routes, it's now easier than ever to get to Japan -- but it also just got slightly more expensive to leave the country once you've had your fill of Tokyo sushi, Okinawa beaches, and Kyoto temples.
A strong online and social media presence is really important if a hotel hopes to attract millennials, according to a new report.U.K. furniture maker Knightsbridge commissioned the survey to find out how the sought-after demographic group finds and selects hotels.
In today's competitive consumer-facing landscape, customers now have more power and options than ever before - and this is levelling the playing field. For every clothing brand, there's hundreds of other labels; for every hotel, there's another twenty that guests can stay in.
As we get closer and closer to Google planning entire trips for us, the tech giant announced upgrades to its Google Assistant today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will make certain aspects of travel easier, and hands free.
Now that we are well into 2019, it is time to look at the year ahead in hotel openings. Cities across the globe can expect an influx of new properties to debut, with options ranging from budget to ultra-luxury.
If you like crowds, personalized travel experiences or talking to machines, then you're going to love traveling in 2019. That's because "overtourism," personalization and artificial intelligence rank among the top travel trends of the new year, experts say.
Marriott might have more clout in negotiations with the online booking giant following its Starwood acquisition. Marriott International Inc. and Expedia Group Inc. are in the final stages of negotiations over how much the world's largest hotel company will pay the online booking giant, a development that will have broad implications for other hotel operators, property owners and millions of guests world-wide.
