Articles tagged “india”

Give your Starbucks jokes a pause, this one in New Delhi is worth going to, if only to marvel at the difference between this store and the best of them in NYC. Add to that the hot, humid and crowded Indian surroundings in August, and the refuge that this very well designed Starbucks offers. This is worth a tourist-gawking trip.

There you go, problem solved. You feel safer now?

If you think hotel industry is fragmented here, try India, where it is hard to tell the difference between real estate and hotel industry. Now, as airlines and rail are being booked at volume online in India, hotels are coming into the mix of online travel.

This being India, the network will likely be overwhelmed by usage, primarily mobile device usage. But then, how different would that crawl be from Amtrak or Bolt Bus wi-fi here?

Contrast and comparison is a particularly effective technique for travel ads, because it highlights what makes each culture or company unique -- the ultimate goal of any good campaign.

AirAsia will come in with a big splash, but will have to sustain the cost structure long term and learn from past failures of players before them.

Sahara has been controversial from the beginning, and investors everywhere need to ask the hard questions before getting into business with it.

Amanresorts is as luxury boutique as you get, and now that it is independent, it will likely be a better fit with its authentic, small, intimate image.

Naming planes is a practice that started with Viking’s ships, but the tradition, when still carried out today, is part of social media strategy with frequent flyers sharing which quirky names they’ve ticked off the list.