03 Mar | Author: Julia G | Category:
Travel
Some interesting facts about female travelers in Asia from Singapore travel agencies.
Resume: Women travel to taste and enjoy their financial independence. They are more adventurous than men. They do it for themselves (men prefer to spend money for expensive “toys” to imress others then for jorney). They need shopping (read “spending money”) as therapy. They begin to travel more than men.
“In fact, with women in Asia making around 125 million trips a year – within Asia and elsewhere – they are set to play a decisive role in the development of the travel, hospitality and tourism sectors in the next decade,” says Mr Don Birch, CEO of travel facilitator Abacus International.
MasterCard study conducted in major Asian markets this year, revealed that 42 per cent of women surveyed travelled in the last 12 months, compared to 37 per cent of the men.
In Asia, the most active female travellers are from developed cities like Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where the women have more disposable income.
Read more on justwoman.asiaone.com
28 Feb | Author: Julia G | Category:
Travel,
Web 2.0
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has begun new campaign to “improve and edit all the information about Thailand”. The online campaign includes editing of articles about Thailand on Wikipedia and developing of web-portal with TAT’s and traveler’s UGC content about the country.
Good initiative.
TAT should also pay more attention to mobile media (in addition to this online campain), helping tourisits in a time of visit.
Now, for example, AIS mobile service for travelers doesn’t work. ConciergeGo, another source of information about major Asian cities on mobile, has no information about Thailand too.
16 Jan | Author: Julia G | Category:
Applications
Singapore’s leading operator, SingTel, has recently announced its $2.3 million Partner Programme which aim is to bring new applications for mobile market.
Mon, Jan 14, 2008
The Straits Times
“Developers will get access to the latest software tools, mobile phones and even preferential cellphone charges as part of plan to market more homegrown applications.
If they are deemed good enough by SingTel, their software may also be marketed to the region with the help of the telco. Altogether, SingTel and its partner telcos in the region have 158 million mobile subcriptions, dwarfing the 5.4 million subscriptions here.
< ...>Such projects are common with cellphone operators the world over as they seek the next big game or application that companies and consumers will use on their small screens”.
The project supported by Infocomm Development Authority and industry vendors like Nokia and Microsoft
12 Dec | Author: Julia G | Category:
Events,
Travel
15-16 March 2008. Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore
TDS is the only event of its kind Asia, where over 800 top travel executives will gather once again to expand their understanding of this exciting region.
More information on eyefortravel.com
06 Dec | Author: Julia G | Category:
Travel
Some impressive statistics on China Tourism.
China is consolidating its status as Asia’s largest outbound tourism market as 28.55 million people travelled abroad in the first 10 months of 2006 year.
World Tourism Organisation (WTO) estimate of 100m by 2020.
Stripping out travel to Hong Kong and Macau, which represents around 70% of the total, and considering that only 4% of the urban population has travelled overseas, we can clearly see the huge growth potential.
Domestic Travel Market: China’s domestic tourism market makes up more than 90% of the country’s tourism traffic, and contributes more than 70% of total tourism revenue. In 2003, domestic tourists reached 870 million, which is 3.6 times for the same period in 1985. At least 1.21 billion person-times of Chinese travelled within the country last year (2005), an increase of 53 per cent over 2001.
China is also gaining appeal as a top tourist destination. Official statistics show that China received 46.8 million tourists last year, ranking fourth globally. The tourists spent a total of US$29.3 billion, placing China sixth globally.
Sources: china-embassy.org, usembassy-china.org.cn , mindbranch.com
