Klook now offers sports and live events, including World Cup, Wimbledon and Formula 1
Klook has announced the expansion of its offerings to include sports and live events, bringing together four of the world's most iconic sporting properties: World Cup 2026, Roland-Garros 2026, Wimbledon 2026 and Formula 1. The launch adds Sports and Live Events to Klook's wealth of experiences, conn [...]
Africa’s skies are busier than ever, but the continent still risks falling behind the world
Record seat capacity and a runaway success story in Ethiopia can't mask deep structural fault lines across West, Central and Southern Africa. OAG's CEO lays out the numbers
Reported in conjunction with WiT Africa 2026 · Based on a presentation by Filip Filipov, CEO, OAG
African avia [...]
WiT Phocuswright Middle East moves to Barcelona: A global lens on a region in transition
In a year when the travel industry has been forced to confront both uncertainty and resilience, WiT Phocuswright Middle East will take place in Barcelona on June 15, a day before Phocuswright Europe.
The two events, held at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, will bring together global and regi [...]
Aviation’s record technology investment hinges on one thing: data coordination
SITA research finds a consistent pattern across AI, cybersecurity, digital identities and sustainability: sharing and coordinating operational data across systems and partners is a key focus for the industry
SITA’s 2025 Air Transport IT Insights report finds that, while the air transport indust [...]
Cruise tourism in Southeast Asia generates US$10 billion in total economic output
Southeast Asia's cruise industry demonstrated strong economic value in 2024, generating US$10 billion (S$12.9 billion) in total output representing 5% of global cruise industry output. The region delivered US$2,564 (S$3,308) per passenger visit - 2.4 times the global average per passenger, despite o [...]
Minor Hotels partners with Google, Salesforce and Deloitte to build AI-driven guest data platform
Global partnership with Google Cloud, Salesforce, OneTrust and Deloitte will unify guest data and enable AI-driven personalisation, leapfrogging legacy systems
Minor Hotels has unveiled plans to build a new global data and AI platform from the ground up in partnership with Google Cloud, Salesforce, [...]
Trust, leapfrogs and the big bets on Africa’s travel
Africa will leapfrog. Again.
That was the consensus running through a panel at WiT Africa featuring Mike McGearty, CEO and co-founder of Meili, Tania Platt, global head of B2B travel at Visa, and Adebayo Adedeji, group CEO of WakaNow.
To a packed room of close to 200 delegates at Innovation City [...]
South Africa’s $2.5b online travel market attracts new wave of homegrown tech
Is South Africa the world's quiet travel tech powerhouse?
South Africa's online travel market, valued at $2.54 billion in 2024, is on a trajectory toward nearly $6 billion by 2033. But the more interesting story isn't the size of the prize, but who's showing up to claim it. South Africa has quietl [...]
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Lobby raises $2.2m to automate group bookings with AI
Swiss startup Lobby has secured USD 2.2 million from venture capital firm Founderful, whose co-founder Pascal Mathis, also a GetYourGuide co-founder, will join the board, to scale its AI platform for processing group travel bookings. The platfor [...]
Fliggy launches open-source travel skill and adds AI bookings
Chinese online travel platform Fliggy, an Alibaba Group subsidiary, has made two moves in quick succession: opening up its travel inventory to AI agent developers via a new open-source skill, and enabling actual travel bookings through an AI interface for the first time.
Fliggy, the travel divisio [...]
