AccorHotels to provide personalised experiences to Chinese travellers in partnership with Ctrip
Ctrip.com International deepens its cooperation with AccorHotels in a new deal that “will greatly enhance the growing Chinese travellers’ journey globally.”
This is made possible in a memorandum of understanding the two companies inked last week, which will give the online services of China [...]
Cathay joins Skyscanner’s Direct Booking Platform
Hong Kong’s home airlines, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon have signed on to Skyscanner’s direct booking platform, enlarging their distribution network. The new integration means that Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon become the first Hong Kong-based carriers to be able to sell tickets directly [...]
Three accidental indie travel makers, one common purpose
If there is one thing travel entrepreneurs Uttara Sarkar Crees, Andrew Dixon and Simon Wong have in common, it is that they all got into what they are doing by accident but are now following their passion and paths with purpose.
Speaking at the inaugural WIT Indie in Penang last week, the trio sh [...]
The Wrap: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
This week we look at partnerships - CarTrawler with London-based startup Splyt, and New Zealand’s Sounds Air with Sabre, Cambodia Bayon Airlines with Travelport
TRANSPORTATION: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
Travel technology provider, CarTrawler, has pu [...]
WEGOGO launches WeGold ICO to build decentralised travel platform for “fair-share travel ecosystem”
WEGOGO – a business platform on WeChat that enables global tours and activities operators and travel hosts to connect with Chinese consumers –announced its aspirations to be the world’s “first travel blockchain for aspirational travel in Asia”.
To do this, WEGOGO has expressed its inte [...]
Sabre is rolling out its next-generation travel agency desktop globally in local languages
Sabre is upgrading travel agency customers worldwide to the new Sabre Red Workspace, its point-of-sale tool for travel agencies.
The solution is now available in English, German, Spanish and Japanese. To follow are French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.
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Be socially responsible from day one, not only after you’ve made money, says KGH’s Rajan Sakya
In an industry driven by profits and KPIs, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what the world really looks like.
At WIT Seoul 2018, much of the discussion revolved around how travel businesses should be responding to international issues from geo-political tensions to the brittle state of t [...]
Traditional airlines must strengthen digital to stay airborne, says Korean Air’s Kee Hong Woo
At WIT Seoul, the Representative Director & Executive Vice President of Korean Air, Kee Hong Woo took the hot seat to discuss how the national airline is faring in turbulent skies.
Woo was not shy about admitting that competition was heating up in the region. He pointed out how US carriers we [...]
AccorHotels’ buying spree continues with acquisition of restaurant reservation platform ResDiary
Less than a week after announcing the purchase of a 50% stake in South Africa-based Mantis Group, AccorHotels has bought table reservation system ResDiary for an undisclosed sum.
Glasgow-based ResDiary, co-founded by Mike Conyers (also its CEO) in 2004, provides venues with a high-end table managem [...]
These three technology trends will define the future of travel
Sabre Corporation has identified automation, authenticity and blockchain as the three major evolving technologies and trends, which will impact travel over the next decade in its newly released Sabre Labs Emerging Technology in Travel Report 2018.
The exhaustive report, covering 62 pages (PDF for [...]
