Articles tagged “pata”

Online Travel

Skift India Report: MakeMyTrip Partners with Cricket Fans to Elevate Homestay Standards

Bringing cricket superfans into the picture as "quality assurance ambassadors" makes total sense because these die-hard sports enthusiasts are the ones who'll be hitting the road to catch their favorite matches. It's like MakeMyTrip saying, "Let's cater to the people who are at the heart of the action."

Peden Doma Bhutia | 6 months ago

Skift India Report: MakeMyTrip Partners with Cricket Fans to Elevate Homestay Standards

Tourism

Skift India Daily: Air India Turns to ChatGPT, Algorithmic Pricing for a Reboot

Can the new artificial intelligence software’s travel recommendations be taken as gospel? Perhaps yes, but for now, let’s leverage the power of the human instead of the alternate human.

Amrita Ghosh | 1 year ago

Skift India Daily: Air India Turns to ChatGPT, Algorithmic Pricing for a Reboot

Tourism

UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah Faces Hard Balance Between Tourism Ambitions and Sustainability

Even as it calls itself a nature-based emirate, Ras Al Khaimah is keen to earn the reputation of being a leading meetings, incentive, conference and event hub. The emirate is adopting a measured approach with a controlled pipeline of sustainable development to help strike a balance.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah Faces Hard Balance Between Tourism Ambitions and Sustainability

Tourism

Asia Tourism CEO Offers 3 Ways to Invest for a Green Recovery

As travel moves to the next stage of recovery and resilience, investment will be key to unlock this phase. With sustainability as the key driver of choice, these investments will need to make local communities active stakeholders.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

Asia Tourism CEO Offers 3 Ways to Invest for a Green Recovery

Coronavirus

Asia’s Travel Recovery Could Look Like This

With Asian destinations learning to live with the virus, recovery doesn't seem as elusive. A new Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) report goes to great lengths to explore how that recovery could play out.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

Asia’s Travel Recovery Could Look Like This

Coronavirus

Pacific-Asia Tourism CEO Says Global Vaccine Equity Is Key to Recovery

For Pacific Asia Travel Association CEO Liz Ortiguera, there's no sustained recovery for global tourism whilst billions lack vaccine access. Will her North American and European counterparts step up and join her call to push for vaccine equity?

Lebawit Lily Girma | 2 years ago

Pacific-Asia Tourism CEO Says Global Vaccine Equity Is Key to Recovery

Tourism

Who Will Come Last in Global Travel’s Staged Recovery?

Everyone wants to know when global travel will recover, but that is perhaps the wrong question. With the rise of the "travel bubble," the prospect of recovery is looking a lot more uneven. Who gets to welcome visitors first?

Rosie Spinks, Skift | 4 years ago

Who Will Come Last in Global Travel’s Staged Recovery?

Tourism

Sri Lanka Boldly Asks Online Travel Agencies to Cut Commissions to Help Revive Tourism

Of the several measures to bring arrivals back to pre-Easter bombing levels, a tireless Sri Lanka is asking online travel agencies to slash commissions. It might be better to ask them instead to do a free or at-cost campaign to drive bookings to the country.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 5 years ago

Sri Lanka Boldly Asks Online Travel Agencies to Cut Commissions to Help Revive Tourism

Tourism

Myanmar Tourism Is No Pariah at Asia-Pacific Travel Mart

It was mostly business as usual for Myanmar tourism at the Pacific Asia Travel Association's 2018 travel mart. With visitation to Myanmar declining from Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Myanmar is going after Chinese, Japanese, and Korean tourists. But so is almost everyone else.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Myanmar Tourism Is No Pariah at Asia-Pacific Travel Mart

Overtourism

Asia-Pacific Tourism CEO Points to Bad Management — Not Overtourism — as Key Problem

Words as a means to define problems and trigger solutions are important. The label overtourism crystalizes a problem and serves as a call to action. We'd agree that a lack of capacity management is a big part of the problem, but the latter characterization hardly spurs the urgency the issue requires.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago