Posts

Showing posts from May, 2009

Retail Buzz !

Image
Here is the latest buzz on Indian Retail Media and retail firms to dominate online deals: Akamai CEO Birla group looks to sell stake in retail venture A brand new day in store 'India has a huge growth potential' Bharti Walmart to open Store Next week Global meltdown and Indian retail Retailers face uphill task in wooing customers Inventing a Superpower Retailers doing a rethink EDITORIAL COMMENT Shopping Around Research and Markets: Retail Scene in India ( not an original post , compiled from the web )

1000 Singapore's

Image
We believe that to some extent retail industry has a a positive correlation to the tourist inflow , we write after a visit to Singapore which is considered to be a role model for the retail and tourist correlation , as they market shopping and holidays together in an aggressive way along with say a Dubai . Come to think of it Singapore has come out of "nothing " and still runs and thrives on it , ie whatever has come out of Nothing .Singapore has created man made tourism destinations backed up with some aggressive marketing and some value added selling like photography , retail stores for souvenirs. Add to this a strong tourist friendly culture , they have a winning model which rocks . Switching to India its well everyone knows we have huge amount of potential , with a lot of heritage and natural destinations to showcase , but here are our thoughts to make India going the Singapore way . i) create 4 man made tourist destinations in the 4 regions of the country ie south