Thailand’s Minor Hotels automates MICE booking process on Expedia’s platform
Minor Hotels’ Anantara and Oaks brands will go ‘live’ with Expedia’s white-label MICE technology this week, after the two companies announced a strategic alliance.
By visiting the hotels’ websites, customers can now ins
tantly check availability and pricing information and in [...]
WIT Bootcamp 2017: Four startups offering alternatives from the usual big boys
Travellers these days want an authentic, local experience. Something unique and different from offered by the ubiquitous brands. This has opened up room for startups offering alternatives from the usual big boys.
From Tripping.com and Favstay’s apartment rental — Favstay had in April just lan [...]
ZUZU Hospitality Solutions secures additional US$2 million funding
ZUZU Hospitality Solutions, a outsourced sales and marketing solution for independent hotels, has secured an additional US$2 million of funding and will use the funds to "deliver a software and a service" model to its partners.
Specifically, it will invest further into its revenue management tech [...]
Cruises, growth in Asia and a keen eye on Japan and China
To be a better startup, one has to keep an eye on key trends and a nose on where the money is. At the WIT 2017 Bootcamp in Singapore last October, three experts shared their observations on where the funding is, how to use data for more sales, and the rise of cruises in Asia.
Asia travel startups [...]
WIT Bootcamp 2017: Vision, motive, resilience, right team: These make for a better startup
“The best founding teams are like cockroaches, they get stepped on and go crunch a little but then keep on running,” a quote by William Bao Bean, general partner of SOSV and managing director of Chinaaccelerator best sums up what make a better startup, and perhaps set it on the road to being a [...]
WIT Bootcamp 2017: Empowering communities through socially-conscious startups
While most startups are in the game for dollars and cents, some have set out with a strong social conscience, trying to build stronger communities, promote sustainability — even help younger people develop emotional intelligence.
LocalAlike, for example, helps villages in Thailand build up sust [...]
WIT Bootcamp 2017: Creativity and passion trump experience when working for startups
The ability to think out of the box, hard work and the willingness to learn. Those are the qualities startups look out for when hiring, panelists agreed at the "Startup Got Talent" session, moderated by Marissa Trew, Content & Marketing, WIT, at the WIT 2017 Bootcamp.
Dan Lynn, co-found [...]
Asia-led innovations take centre stage at WIT as brands vie for position in world’s fastest growing travel market
SINGAPORE – In its 13th year, the award-winning WIT – Web In Travel conference opening in Singapore today, will place the spotlight on the digital travel market in Asia Pacific which, in 2017, accounted for 38% of the travel market (Phocuswright’s Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Tenth Edit [...]
South Korea’s MyRealTrip gets US$6mil investment to step up expansion
MyRealTrip, South Korea’s leading tour and activity platform, has received ₩7 billion (US$6.2 million) investment from five VCs, bringing its total funding to ₩12.3 billion (US$10.9 million).
The new investors are SmileGate Investment, Altos Ventures, Imm Investment, Mirae Asset-Naver Fund [...]
The Wrap: Second edition of AirAsia Japan takes off end October
In The News: AirAsia takes second shot at Japan; BeMyGuest adds two industry veterans to its team; Virgin Australia implements Sabre Branded Fares; CWT in new deal to remove distribution fees for customers
AIRLINES: Second edition of AirAsia Japan takes off end October
In June 2013 when th [...]
