The Wrap: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, says GBT
News Roundup: Amex GBT’s Green Travel Whitepaper on sustainable business travel, Trip.com car rentals on KAYAK platform in APAC, India-based Vistara's extension of partnership with Amadeus
Environment: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, [...]
Sojern offers insights to booking and search trends of travellers for more targeted marketing
Australians and New Zealanders will be searching and booking in January for travel during Easter and even for the winter next year reveals Sojern, and urges travel marketers to have campaigns running by 15 December in order to take full advantage of this spike.
This marketing tip is one of sever [...]
Solo travel on the rise, driven by desire to have “me time”: Klook study
Travel trends have seen many changes, and in the last few years more and more people are embracing solo travel as they want uninterrupted "me time” or to reward themselves.
These are some the findings in the ‘Solo Travel’ study commissioned by travel activities and services booking platfo [...]
Exosonic wants the airline industry to boom through supersonic travel
It’s hard to catch the attention of an audience confronted with 24 back-to-back startup and product pitches, but Exosonic managed to do just that. At The Phocuswright Conference Summit, Norris Tie, CEO of Exosonic wowed attendees with his vision of developing a fleet of supersonic passenger aircr [...]
The Wrap: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel platform BlackBook
News Roundup: Million+ hotel listings and trip planning on new integrated travel platform BlackBook, Wirecard’s partnership with China’s Yeepay to “internationalise” payments, Grab’s extension of rides to Japan and the Middle East
Hospitality: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel pl [...]
Travelstart launches online bus booking platform
Travelstart.co.za has launched a new online bus booking platform.
The platform,
available at bus.travelstart.co.za,
will help customers save time and money by comparing bus tickets from competing
companies and serving the cheapest fare for a return or one-way route within
South Africa, or [...]
Four startups nab top prizes at The Phocuswright Conference Summit
Over 20 startups pitched live at The Phocuswright Conference Summit, spanning travel categories that included hotel technology, corporate travel, chat and voice, SaaS/PaaS, luggage storage, air, in-destination services, and booking, vying for a range of prizes.
Of them included the Phocuswright [...]
Amadeus gives travel startups in Asia investment boost
Amadeus Ventures, an innovation vehicle to drive collaboration with the startup ecosystem, will launch in APAC in Q1 2020, investing in early-stage startups sitting at the crossroads of technology and travel, giving travel startups in Asia a shot in the arm.
According to Google’s e-Conomy SEA [...]
AirAsia now sells flights on other airlines in digital transformation push
Malaysia’s low cost carrier AirAsia is selling flights on more than 100 other global airlines on its website and app as it transforms airasia.com into a travel and lifestyle platform and to boost revenue.
This is made possible through a strategic partnership the carrier signed with Prague-base [...]
Skyscanner starts selling flights, via mobile only
Skyscanner has now gone beyond being just a metasearch platform, announcing it will sell flights, albeit via its app and mobile web only in Australia, Singapore and the UK.
Bryan Dove, Skyscanner CEO said: “It’s not a secret that people are increasingly turning to thei [...]
