A study released today by Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR),in collaboration with TrendWatching, explores a series of quirky ‘behavioural’ trends emerging amongst Asia Pacific consumers which will present new opportunities for hotels in 2017.
Travel brands are already jumping on the bandwagon: Qantas launched a health insurance and wellness program in 2016, Qantas Assure, which rewards Qantas Frequent Flyers who take out a Qantas Assure health insurance policy for being active. Using the Qantas Assure App they count their steps to earn Qantas Points that can be redeemed on flights and thousands of other rewards from hotel stays to products from the Qantas Store.
“LOCAL LOVE”: The global centre of economic and cultural gravity is shifting. ‘Global Brand’ successes are being driven from Asia not into Asia, such as Alibaba and Samsung. With this evolution, consumer mind-sets towards ‘local’ are also changing. A rising body of Asian consumers are taking more pride in locality, embracing local products and offerings and reinventing the celebration of tradition and culture. As the value placed on local goods and services within Asian markets grows, the availability of good quality local options increases. The hospitality industry is uniquely positioned to benefit.
“A longstanding challenge for travellers has been finding truly local, authentic, experiences – not globalised ‘versions of’. Hotels can tap into the increasing selection of local, and better quality, options to address this need. Through local partnerships they can extend and enhance the guest experience, increasing customer loyalty or room rates, while driving new revenue streams back into the development of ‘localness’ – further fuelling regional economic growth,” comments Sarah.
“INFOLUST”: With the explosion of online and mobile access, today’s consumers are becoming accustomed to the availability of vast amounts of information to inform purchase decisions. But as well as receiving information, consumers are increasingly open to sharing information in exchange for more relevant, personalised, services and recommendations.
Meanwhile the channels available for this exchange are also evolving. Messaging apps such as WeChat and Line will continue to gain users and expand their ecosystem to become a one-stop-platform for lifestyle solutions.
“Look at the amount paid for WhatsApp, the value wrapped up in WeChat – messaging is going to be a big part of the service infrastructure. No apps get opened as often as messaging apps. They’re becoming the portals of everything mobile and a vector for new consumer experiences. Hotels have an opportunity to share travel information, from shopping options to mid-trip services, and engage consumers at every stage of the journey in a virtual channel they’re already in, via the two-way conversation they’re seeking,” adds Sarah.
The full report, developed by Sabre in collaboration with TrendWatching, a company that tracks emerging patterns in consumer behaviour, attitude, and expectations, can be downloaded here:http://www2.sabrehospitality.com/APACMegaTrends.
This List of nuclear reactors is an annotated list of all the nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list includes military, commercial and research reactors, excludes nuclear marine propulsion reactors, except those at land installations.
McMurdo Station – PM-3A NNPU "Nukey Poo" US Navy power reactor (operational 1962, shut down 1972, fully dismantled 1979)[1]
HIFAR (High Flux Australian Reactor; 10 MWt DIDO class reactor), Lucas Heights, New South Wales, produced patient nuclear medicine doses (approx half a million a year) for the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as cancer and heart disease. It first went critical on January 26, 1958, was shutdown in January 2007[9] and is currently under a care and maintenance program [10]
OPAL reactor, 20 MWt, a replacement for HIFAR supplied by INVAP of Argentina. This facility first went critical at 11.25pm on August 12, 2006[11] and achieved full power for the first time on the 3rd of November 2006.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia) – IRT-200 research reactor, partially decommissioned in 2009, shut down
WR-1 – Pinawa, Manitoba. Organically cooled CANDU class reactor 1965-1985. Plant had coolant leak of 2,739 litres in November 1978.[20]
CEFR Chinese Experimental Fast Reactor (65 MWt, 20 MWe, sodium cooled fast-spectrum neutron reactor). Located at CIAE Beijing, construction started May 2000, first criticality July 2010.
TRICO II – TRIGA reactor, CREN-K (University of Kinshasa), 1 MW (initial criticality 1972, extended shutdown since 2004)[21]
Institut Laue-Langevin, currently the world's most intense source of neutrons and the source of the most intense neutron flux
^a Post-Fukushima shutdown of eight reactors. On 15 March 2011, the German Government decided to close seven nuclear power plants built before 1980 along with the Krümmel nuclear power plant for a duration of three months.[22] The temporary shutdown was changed into permanent shutdown by the German parliament on 30 June 2012. The remaining nine plants that stayed operational were given new decommissioning dates.[23]
Wyhl, planned nuclear plant that was never built because of long-time resistance by the local population and environmentalists.
Apsara reactor – Asia's first nuclear reactor. 1 MWT, pool type, light water moderated, enriched uranium fuel supplied by France
PFBR – 500MWe Sodium cooled fast breeder nuclear reactor, under construction. Expected completion 2015.
Negev Nuclear Research Center – EL-102 uranium/heavy water research reactor, originally 24 MWT (supplied by France, operational 1962, not under IAEA safeguards)
Two Russian VVER-1000 1 GW reactors to be built at an undisclosed location in the Eastern Desert between Mafraq, Zarqa and Azraq.[27]
PRR-1 - 3 MW TRIGA-converted reactor, Quezon City. Managed by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (formerly Philippine Atomic Energy Commission). 1st criticality on August 1963, reactor conversion on March 1984, criticality after conversion on April 1988, shut down since 1988 for pool repairs, on extended shutdown at present.
Institute for Nuclear Research, Mioveni, 110 km north-west of Bucharest - a TRIGA reactor (capable consisting of either a 500 kW pulse ACPR core, or a 14 MW steady state core)
National Institute for Research and Isotopic Separation, Govora, 170 km west of Bucharest - no research reactors, but instead devoted to heavy water production
National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN-HH, Mǎgurele, 5 km south-west of Bucharest - a 2 MW VVR-S research reactor (shut down in April 2002, with decommissioning/dismantling to start in 2013)
As of December 8, 2014, the Swiss parliament has voted to limit the operational life-time of Beznau I & II to no more than 60 years, and to enshrine a ban of constructing new reactors in the Constitution. However, this decision still has to pass the Council of States and it is likely that a referendum will be taken against such amendment. In addition, a Initiative of limiting the life-span of all nuclear reactors to 45 years will have to be voted upon the Swiss, irrespective of whether the legislature will actually enforce the constitutional amendment or not.[36]
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey 1,059 December 20, 1986
Sodium Reactor Experiment Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Valley, California 6.5 July 12, 1957 February 15, 1964
ALPR; see also SL-1/ALPR - Facility was turned over to the U.S. Army (1958), was destroyed in an accident (1961)[46]
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho (these reactors were due to a number of US government contractors at the National Reactor Testing Station, and the reactors or their sites were taken over by INL when it was created in 2005)[73]
URR reactor - A small pool-type research reactor placed in Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares (CIN). In operation since early '70 up to 1997 when it was dismantled and returned to United States[81][82] due law of 1997 against use of nuclear energy in Uruguay.[83]