Travel Massive Hong Kong

24/10/2018

This is a must-watch for anyone in the travel business, not just hospitality. Invest 16mins of your day watching this. You won't regret it.

Chip Conley, strategic advisor for hospitality and leadership at Airbnb, spoke at Skift Global Forum 2018 about what's next after boutique hotels and Airbnb....

26/09/2018

Cathay and a few other regional airlines have jumped on this bandwagon. Have you been offered the chance to bid on an upgrade? Read on for some useful tips on how and when to bid and hopefully win!

Use these tips to improve your chances of scoring a ticket in business class or higher.

24/09/2018

Hey all! Hope you're having a wonderful start to the week! The Travel Massive site has published a short review of our event from a couple of weeks ago. Do check it out!

Travel Massive Hong Kong recently held their first event in about 18 months - Hong Kong Reboot 2018, where travel professionals got together to chat about the industry challenges and the future of Hong Kong's tourism community.

19/09/2018

Have you seen this video about the "all-new" TripAdvisor? They are clearly trying to socialise travel hashtag (and hopefully travel booking).

I used to be a heavy user and contributor; I still do on occasion, to compare hotels in unfamiliar cities. TA's biggest utility is its display of most impt info on one screen: ratings, both quant and qual, location maps, prices, and real pics. I reduced some time ago when it was clear there was an integrity problem with many of the reviews - my trust was eroded.

I see this as an attempt by TA to solve that problem. What could be better than trusting your friends' reviews?

The downsides: there aren't many people keen to share reviews (forget the level of detail) that will make this useful; peer recommendations may be helpful only for certain product categories and particular traveller segments (e.g families with kids, elderly, differently-abled, etc.). Quite a few others as well.

This revamp will likely be fantastic for content creators (hashtag influencers, vloggers and bloggers). These people are fast becoming the new funnel, channeling travel demand. TA may just pull it off over time, assuming they can convince the rest of us to stop using Insta, FB and Snap.

Comments? Thoughts? Violent disagreements?

13/09/2018

OK so here's a glimpse into what real "personalization" might look like in the not too distant future.

Personally, I'm scared about the "smart" wallpaper! Any thoughts?

In this guest blog, Rohit Talwar, the CEO of Fast Future provides an expert view surrounding Travel Future.  Rohit, an award-winning speaker and global futurist, believes that there are many possibilities available for the world of travel with the evolving development of technology.  Below he pain...

12/09/2018

Hi everyone! Hope you've had a great start to the week. Here's the first - in what will hopefully be a series - of webinars targeted at the travel industry in Hong Kong.

Bird & Bird are a UK-based law firm with a travel industry practise and are now establishing themselves in Asia. They are running a free webinar around the topic of Artificial Intelligence, and whether the transformation it is enabling is a friend or foe to the travel industry.

Date: Tuesday 9th October 2018
Time: 9am - 10am (British Standard Time) / 4pm - 5pm Hong Kong time.

Sign up via the link below. Please do share this to anyone in your network who might benefit.

https://www.twobirds.com/en/events/uk/2018/ais-transformation-of-the-travel-industry-legal-friend-or-foe

11/09/2018

SIA AppChallenge 2018. Roadshow @ The Hive in Sheung Wan on 10th September 2018. Travel Massive CL Vimal Kumar Rai was on a panel discussing . It was a well attended event with over 70 people. They were also pitched about Travel Massive. Today (11/9) there's been 3 people joining already by mid-day!

10/09/2018

Tuesday 4th September 2018 - Travel Massive Hong Kong REBOOT 2018! It was really nice to meet up with 10 other travel professionals. It's the start of something new, something MASSIVE...

05/09/2018

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