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Thai Airways, Restoran Bertema Pesawat, dan Pa Tong Go

Dari sekian banyak industri dan bisnis di dunia, indsutri perjalanan mungkin salah satu yang terkena dampak sangat besar, dan sangat cepat. Tak butuh berbulan-bulan untuk dampaknya langsung dirasakan.

Karena orang juga mulai berpikir ulang untuk bepergian entah untuk urusan pekerjaan atau hiburan, industri penerbangan — yang otomatis juga memengaruhi industri lain dalam sektor pariwisata — langsung perlu penyesuaian. Mulai dari pengurangan rute, pengurangan frekuensi penerbangan, termasuk pengurangan beban operasional lainnya.

Sedih melihatnya. Ditambah ketika pembatasan perjalanan harus dilakukan karena regulasi dari otoritas.

Thai Airways salah satunya. Untuk tetap membuat operasional berjalan, mereka melakukan beberapa penyesuaian bisnis, melakukan adaptasi, seperti yang dilakukan oleh puluhan, ratusan, atau bahkan jutaan bisnis di dunia.

Restoran Thai Airways

Restoran yang ditawarkan oleh Thai Airways ini memberikan pengalaman makan dengan tema ‘penerbangan’. Dengan menu, armosfer, dan pengalaman khas ala Thai Airways. Tentu, ini juga sudah pasti Thai Airways tidak bisa mengoperasikan penerbangan komersialnya.

Patong-go

Berikutnya, Thai Airways juga mulai melakukan langkah yang lain yaitu berjualan roti goreng, dengan nama patong-go atau diistilahkan dengan deep-fried dough. Mungkin kalau di Indonesia, mirip seperti cakwe, atau bolang baling. Atau, mungkin odading lebih bisa lebih mirip dengan ini. Tentu, kita tak perlu mendebatkan mana yang duluan apakah pa tong go, odading, cakwe, atau bolang baling yang duluan. Atau malah galundeng?

(Photo: Chanat Katanyu/Bangkok Post)

Acting THAI president Chansin Treenuchagron told reporters that the fried dough sticks were popular and people formed long queues to buy them each morning at the airline’s five food outlets in Bangkok. Monthly sales were around 10 million baht. Encouraged by this, the airline planned to franchise its fried dough sticks, so THAI and its partners could mutually benefit from their popularity.

Bangkok Post: Thai Airways cashing in on fried dough

Semangat!

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Trump’s Cabinet

Trump’s Cabinet So Far Is More White and Male Than Any First Cabinet Since Reagan’s

President Trump’s cabinet is shaping up to have a smaller percentage of women and nonwhites than the first cabinets of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George Bush.

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Joko Widodo on Social Media

Joko Widodo, the seventh President of Indonesia just announced his presense on YouTube on last May 28, 2016. Currently, he is already on Twitter (@jokowi) and Instagram (Jokowi). Welcome, Sir!

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President Obama on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Melihat video perbincangan antara Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Obama dan Jerry Seinfeld ini, saya sangat menikmatinya dan berharap ada yang bikin video serupa dengan Presiden Republik Indonesia. Tapi, siapakah yang cocok untuk mewawancarainya?

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The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong: World's highest hotel

The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong is the tallest hotel in the world and was opened on March 29, 2011. This hotel is located at the very top of the International Commerce Centre (ICC) in Hong Kong, occupying floors 102 to 118. It has 312 rooms and about the rates: starting at $750 US per night (for a deluxe room) and $12,505 for presidential suite per night.
Here are some pictures of the building and hotel area:



Image source: CNNGo.com and International Commerce Center.

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Nokia Welcoming Stephen Elop

Nokia welcoming its new President and CEO. His name is Stephen Elop. And, he’s @selop on Twitter.

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White House's The Official Photostream

When I heard about White House Photostream page from Yan Arief Twitter status, I visited it right away. No waiting. I’m an Indonesian, and I love seeing the topic like this — related to my own country — but, it’s not easy to find. Do we have great pictures of our President, or Istana Negara? Anyone?
I like seeing what happen in the White House. Not from political perspective. I just like it. If I have to choose some, here are some photos I like.
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Facebook and Friendster in Indonesia

I feel that more people added me as their Facebook contact list these days. And, many of them already added me to other social network site: Friendster. I joined both sites, but I almost never use Friendster in the last few months. I found that Friendster is too boring. I know, it might because I only use some of its feature.

When I visited Friendster, I only checked the friend requests, approve (or simply ignore them). Other than that? Almost nothing.

Few days ago, I looked up Friendster’s Alexa statistics. The traffic goes down — compared to its competitor: Facebook. When I checked both service using Google Trend, I got the similar result.

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According to Friendster’s press release in April 2008, Friendster has more than 8 million registered users and 4 million monthly unique visitors to Friendster.com as of February 2008. The press release also said that:

Friendster is the most popular online social network in Indonesia with over 3.9 million weekly unique users, according to analysis of Alexa data as of April 1, 2008. “This makes Friendster more than five times larger than Facebook which has no more than 700,000 unique users each week, and this makes Friendster seven times larger than MySpace which has no more than 530,000 in Indonesia,” said David Jones, vice president of global marketing at Friendster. “As the second largest Web site in Indonesia (second only to Yahoo!) and the No. 1 social network in Indonesia, launching support for Indonesian will help Friendster maintain and extend its leadership position in the country as well as with Indonesians around the world.

On the other hand, Facebook becomes more popular now. According to Facebook demographic statistics, there are already more than 1 million registered users from Indonesia as of February 2009. Let’s see what will happen in the next few months. Should be interesting.

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Third 2008 Presidential Debate (US)

Just in case you’re interested. Third 2008 Presidential Debate is available at YouTube.

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6S Marketing Visits Google

6S Marketing Visits Google.