Wednesday, February 14, 2007

tourist on the go...

After the presentation of bird park assignment, we wrote on the board all our business ideas into 4 different bloc which are 4 stages in any business: initiate, enter/begin, complete and retirement. In each stage, our ideas are consolidated. We can have a well-round perspective from different angles. No one can think everything, but we can integate everyone's intelligence and contribution to figure out a better solution.If our idea is applicable and feasible in Jurong Bird Park, it is even more valuable in bigger maze such as Disney or night safari.

I feel this semester, this course quite focuses on the tourist industry. Our project is also about how to implement technology to provide value-added survice to tourists. I have travelled to Malaysia for a few times. from a point of view as a traveller, the most importance is the convenience.
The difficulties include:
(1)quite often lost in the downtown
(2)language barrier, would like to get more information in prefered language
(3)payment is troublesome. sometimes i would like to expend more, but i have limited Ringgit. to avoid trouble to exchange money reduces my impulse to buy.

our peers' project ideas are very fabulous and impressive. I am thinking how we can encourage tourists to travel more and spend more in singapore. I have a idea that in corporte with the casino/resort which will be operating in 2010, is it possible to use handphone or WAP to do on-line gambling. the tourist no need to be physically in the casino. Some specially gambling can be viewed through on-line camera, and tourists can choose and bet even in their hotel. I have not figured out the details, just have this idea in mind as most gamblers are price-insensitive in the sense that if they win, they do not mind to spend more. A big market potential lies in this gambling segment.

1 comment:

cellprof said...

Might want to think about the casino experience- is the value proposition mainly gambling, or is it being in an exciting place with glamorous people?