Klook offers activities at lower prices than traditional travel firms or tour operators, it works here directly with attraction managers and owners. Product localization is key in the service industry. The local sourcing team will feedback what the existing preferences and trends are and accommodate accordingly. Hiring local is key to their strategy and not enough to be able to speak the language, but to fully understand local habits. That way, it doesn’t involve agents or other aggregators who, once adding in their commission, push prices up for travelers. The company claims to have grown its userbase — which it counts as the total reach for its website, mobile apps, WeChat and other touch points — from 200,000 to 500,000 over the same period. It currently includes more than 1,200 activities across 24 destinations in Asia, that’s up from around 1,000 earlier this year. It didn’t say how many bookings or customers it has, but that it “serves thousands of travelers a day.” The company was founded in September 2014 with the idea of helping travelers and tourists find things to do across Asia. Fah said that Greater China accounts for around one-third of its user base, with Southeast A
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My bestfriend Jon is planning to take his family on vacation to Japan. Unfortunately, Japan online visa application is still not yet available and requires lots of paper works not only for my bestfriend Jon but also for his family in the Philippines. Since I've been to Australia, I suggested Jon to visit the land down under. Those of you who want to travel, and your destination is Australia then follow the below guidelines for your reference: 1. Application of Australian Visa can be done at http://immi.gov.au by registering and filling up the questionnaires. Upload all relevant documents of you and your family like passports, pictures, bank statements, employment certificate, birth certificate, marriage license, itinerary etc. 2. If you are lodging a visa application in a country included in the biometrics program, regardless of nationality, you might need to provide your biometrics in relation to each visa application you lodge. Information can be found at this link. For applicants in GCC, VFS Global is the accredited Visa Application Center of Australia to collect biometrics. For more information visit their website at http://www.vfsglobal.com/Australia/GCC. As of this moment, P
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Based on the current trend on the family of Filipino Overseas Workers (OFW), the popular family set-up is rapidly changing. The image of father and mother is alternatively set aside to sustain their livelihood especially for those who choose to work abroad. Is it alarming to recognize this changing family set-up, or this is now the trend of a modern family lifestyle? This set-up is the same also with countries such as US who deploys soldiers around the world who left their family for the sake of duty and work outside their country, some families failed to see them for a period of 6 months, but some become handicapped or dead when they arrived. Those pilots who left their family for different airlines suffered the same also. Most businessmen who are frequent travelers experience the same fate of not seeing their families for 2 or 3 months due to different meetings around the world. Every society now has different reasons for working overseas that’s why alternative family set-up is becoming widespread. (Photo Credit: Illustration of modern family set-up) What is alternative family set-up, this is the set-up where wife plays the dual roles as mother and father or vice versa in the ca
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