3 business trends to expect in 2017: FCM Travel
Bertrand Saillet, general manager at FCM Travel Solutions, Southeast Asia, shares the trends for business travel in the new year.
Economic uncertainty has infiltrated the world of corporate business travel. Various markets experienced shockwaves in the wake of the recent American presidential e [...]
Japan’s Venture Republic partners with Airbnb to offer more accommodation choices
Venture Republic, owner of the biggest online travel site in Japan, has formed a partnership with Airbnb in Japan, making it the first metasearch partner of the peer-to-peer online marketplace and homestay network.
Travel.jp, the travel metasearch engine owned by Venture Republic, has launched it [...]
Power and potential of Muslim travel sector should not be ignored, says report
Global tourism has grown by more than a third (37%) in inflation-adjusted terms since the downturn of 2009, outpacing world GDP (Gross Domestic Product) that grew by just a fifth (21%) in the same period.
Last year the GDP impact of the world’s Muslim tourism sector exceeded US$138 billion.
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The Wrap: Demand for self-service at Saudi Arabia’s airports to escalate in 2017
The weekly news roundup: SITA 2016 Passenger IT Trends Survey with focus on Saudi travellers, Air Seoul’s partnership with Sabre, Wego’s Christmas holiday guide
SURVEY: Demand for self-service at Saudi Arabia's airports to escalate in 2017
Saudi travellers' love of smartphones will dri [...]
Tripping.com raises US$35m to expand brand in US and internationally
Tripping.com, a San Francisco-based search engine for vacation homes and short-term rentals, has secured US$35 million in Series C funding.
The company plans to use the fund to expand and build its brand both in the US and internationally, mainly in Asia.
The round was led by Princeville Globa [...]
The present and future of online travel: Thoughts after WIT and Phocuswright
Kei Shibata, CEO of Venture Republic and co-founder of WIT Japan & North Asia, shares his observations on trends in the online travel space and how they might play out in 2017.
Now that the WIT (Web In Travel) conference (Singapore) that's well known in Japan and the world's largest on [...]
The future of travel: Catching up to Asia, learning new behaviours and protecting the little guy
Expedia Inc marked its 20th anniversary with the annual Expedia Partner Conference in Las Vegas last week.
A crowd 4,000 delegates strong, representing many of Expedia’s brands as well as delegates across global travel markets, had their ears pricked and tuned towards finding out what the mult [...]
Viator explores how to make a foreign brand feel local as it expands into Asia
Two years after its acquisition by TripAdvisor in 2014, Viator is now ready to put more resources into Asia and build a name for itself in the tours and activities space in the region.
And that job falls to Anita Ngai, general manager of Viator APAC, and she certainly has a strong base from which [...]
The Wrap: CatchThatBus adds home delivery feature to its mobile app
The weekly news roundup: Home delivery of tickets by CatchThatBus, TripAdvisor’s year-end value report, Skyscanners’ list of emerging destinations for 2017
STARTUPS: CatchThatBus adds home delivery feature to its mobile app
Customers of Malaysia-based startup CatchThatBus now do not [...]
AccorHotels buys 5% stake in Banyan Tree for S$24m
AccorHotels, fresh on the heels of wrapping up the concierge deal with John Paul, has made another acquisition – a 5% stake in Singapore-based Banyan Tree Holdings – for S$24 million (US$16.9 million),
The investment will be made through a mandatory convertible debenture that, at conversion, [...]
