Sabre charts transformation of APAC travel technology at TTX
The 500+ participants at Sabre’s inaugural Asia Pacific Travel Technology Exchange (TTX) in Beijing last week were given an insight into the big trends and developments impacting travel and technology in Asia Pacific.
Sabre executives and guest speakers took to the stage to highlight the chan [...]
The Millennial Traveller: From content veteran to tech startup, how Insight Guides is reimagining its role in travel
Travel research and inspiration before the digital age never involved a hashtag or a geotag on your phone. It involved browsing the Travel Literature section of bookstores, flipping through pages of destination magazines… or picking your next destination by spinning a globe and seeing where your f [...]
BeMyGuest partners with Yatra to tap Indian outbound market
Asian-focused travel activities/tours online booking platform, BeMyGuest, and Indian OTA Yatra.com have formed an activities and tours partnership.
With this deal Yatra.com has gone live with the integration of BeMyGuest’s API for attraction tickets, activities and tours for both its website an [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Innovation in travel tech has only just begun, says Hack Horizon’s Kostadin Kolev
Reimagining the very way we conduct ourselves in daily life is no easy feat but travel is inherently an industry built on the notion of ‘doing things differently’. While technology in travel is not a novel topic, acknowledging ‘travel tech’ as its own vertical is still relatively young.
A [...]
The Wrap: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
The weekly news roundup: Skyscanner’s new quality ratings feature, Club Carlson’s ‘Members Only Rate’, TripAdvisor’s million dollar pledge to the refugee crisis
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
Global travel search engi [...]
US$40.5bil in revenue boost for 67 airlines: CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook
The new CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorksCompany (2016 edition) revealed a total of US$40.5 billion in ancillary revenue, comprising nearly 8.7% of total sales, for 67 airlines.
Europe’s carriers performed well, contributing US$11 billion.
For the survey IdeaWorksCompany res [...]
Booking.com pilots mobile-based in-destination experience
Arrive at a destination and want to discover places and attractions without the hassle of looking through guidebooks or travel apps? Now you can do it easily on your mobile with Booking.com’s new Booking Experiences.
Experiences allows travellers to discover the destination they are in via thei [...]
WIT 2016 will reunite online travel pioneers and reimagine the future
The 12th edition of WIT, to be held on Oct 17-19 in Singapore, will be a reunion of sorts as well as a reimagination of the future.
“Twelve years is the end of a cycle and we are taking the opportunity this year to reflect on the past as well as reimagine the future,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, fou [...]
The Wrap: Travelport creates two new organisations to meet customers’ evolving needs
The weekly news roundup: Travelport’s two new organisations, robust China outbound travel, travellers’ choice of top museums in Asia
TECHNOLOGY: Travelport creates two new organisations to meet customers' evolving needs
Travelport has set up two new entities - Travelport Digital and [...]
Explore attractions and book activities seamlessly with TripAdvisor/Viator content solution
TripAdvisor and Viator (a TripAdvisor company) are collaborating to offer their travel partners and hospitality providers an enhanced attractions content solution, which combines the former’s attractions with booking options by the latter.
The travel planning and booking site said in a statemen [...]
