In 2023, online travel agencies (OTAs) witnessed a surge in marketing expenditures, indicative of the fierce competition to secure bookings amidst the lingering effects of the pandemic. Expedia [...]
Amazon’s presence in the travel industry goes beyond its traditional online retail expertise. While the company is not directly selling travel packages, its subsidiary AWS is making waves [...]
APAC Travel Confidence Index 2023 Reveals Optimism Among Singaporean Travelers Singaporean travelers remain confident and optimistic about their travel plans, according to the recently released [...]
Should Phuke Follow Penang’s Lead in Regulating Short-Term Rentals? Recently, the Malaysian island of Penang made headlines by implementing a ban on short-term rentals. The move has sparked [...]
How ChatGPT Can Revolutionize Travel Retailing Artificial intelligence has been a powerful tool for stakeholders in the travel industry for many years. But it didn’t seem to capture everyone’s [...]
Over the past two years, words such as ‘recession’ and ‘slowdown’ have become pretty common. As business confidence wobbles, there’s been a significant volatility [...]
Economists Have Warned That the Current Economic Conditions Show Asia Isn’t Always Resilient Like any other part of the world, Asia faces economic crises. But Asia has always stood out for [...]
How to Beat the 2023 Post Pandemic Hotel Budgeting The start of the budgeting season is already here with us. Unfortunately, it coincides with a particularly challenging inflection point for most [...]
During the first half of 2022, the hotel business in Phuket gradually picked momentum. According to Suksit Suvunditkul, the president of the Thai Hotels Association, Phuket witnessed an average [...]
Metaverse has been all the craze around here in the last year. That’s all thanks to Facebook’s parent company rebranding into Meta. However, Facebook is only one of many giant corporations [...]