Business

Today, I found two reports: one saying that new non-PC devices (read wireless) are spurring e-commerce growth and another saying most e-shoppers are abandoning their carts. According to a study by America Online and market research firm Roper Starch …

Just returned from Johor Bahru last weekend where our company, Reed Elsevier Business Information (Asia), held a corporate retreat for all divisions. Interesting … what you learn about your company and, specifically, your colleagues from a short outi…

Luke Clark looks at a small business model that caters to travellers, technology and those revolutionary rumblings in all of us. Ask me whether a destination has a future, and I'd ask does it work for local people. No matter how spankingly profitable…

Luke Clark looks at a small business model that caters to travellers, technology and those revolutionary rumblings in all of us. Ask me whether a destination has a future, and I'd ask does it work for local people. No matter how spankingly profitable…

Tell me if you haven't heard someone hiss the word "consolidation" in your ears recently and I'll tell you that you haven't been awake. Whenever I get into any business conversation these days, "consolidation" seems to the code word, interjected into…

After the worst financial crisis the region has ever known, it is good news to all of us in business that the key movers and shakers of business in Asia are overwhelmingly bullish about the future. According to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, chi…

Niche players and so-called click-and-mortar companies may hold the key to profitability for Asia's struggling business-to-consumer sites, a survey by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has shown. The survey, reported in the Asian Wall Street Journal, a…

Yeoh Siew Hoon shares advice from an Internet business guru that old economy companies should not use the recent plunge in new economy stocks as a reason to bury the Internet. This is a time to play catch up, he says. If you are one of those brick-an…

Yeoh Siew Hoon shares advice from an Internet business guru that old economy companies should not use the recent plunge in new economy stocks as a reason to bury the Internet. This is a time to play catch up, he says. If you are one of those brick-an…

One of the attention-grabbing headlines that emerged from the Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting in Okinawa recently was their call to bring the new economy to the world's poor. Their concern was that the digital divide would get wider, and would cr…

Sabre’s director, strategy, global ecommerce, James Filsinger talks to Vera Lye about the relevance of GDSs in the new economy and how it is evolving. Q: How relevant are GDSs (global distribution systems) in the new economy? Filsinger: There has bee…

Yeoh Siew Hoon sends out the first messages from The Ministry of Good News (and eh, Truth). Home alone? Not really. After yesterday’s article, I received many e-mail messages from friends who felt so sorry for me they inundated me with jokes and good…

While women are becoming tidier, they are still more likely to leave messy rooms at hotels and are still more light-fingered than male guests, according to the latest Novotel Survey which examines the habits of travellers in Australia and New Zealand…

From hawker fare in Far East Square to Asia’s highest high tea at the Compass Rose on level 70, Westin Stamford Hotel, Singapore is serving up a reputation as one of the gourmet capitals of the world. Like the Hokkien noodles at Wok & Roll at Fort C…

Yield management could be as important as selling rooms, yet many hotels still do not practice it. Micros-Fidelios recently launched in Asia its yield management system, Opus2, which it acquired in the US late last year. Vera Lye catches up with Opu…

Mobile phones have become so much part of the corporate landscape that American Express has incorporated their costs into its Travel & Entertainment management tools. At the National Business Travel Association's annual convention held in Los Angeles…

The incentive association which dumped Bali for its 2000 annual conference in favour of a talkfest on a cruise ship won't be going anywhere this year. The AustralAsian Incentive Association abandoned its plans for a conference on the Seabourn Sun in …