The Wrap: Accor to plant Sofitel So flag in Kuala Lumpur
In the news: A Sofitel So in Kuala Lumpur, Cathay Pacific's partnership with Travelport, Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s 2015 financial resultsAccor to plant Sofitel So flag in Kuala LumpurMalaysia’s capital city, Kuala Lumpur, will be the site of AccorHotels’ chic So Sofitel brand with a hotel and [...]
The Wrap: Klook partners WeChat & AirAsia BIG, offers more ways to book activities
In the news: New partners for Klook Travel, Ticketbis launches in the U.S.,more countries for TripAdvisor Instant Booking Klook partners WeChat & AirAsia BIG, offers more ways to book activities Klook Travel (“Klook”), Asia’s leading platform for booking attractions and travel activities, [...]
Racing through Kuching for a good cause, Heritage Race to go places in 2016
Sarawak’s tourism industry raised a total of RM20,000 (US$4,750) on January 30 from the inaugural Kuching Heritage Race, supported by Northstar Travel Group's brands - WIT (Web In Travel) and Travel Weekly Asia.The two-hour event, which was created by WIT founder Yeoh Siew Hoon, saw close to 48 te [...]
Aladdin Street, M’sia’s first halal e-commerce platform, sets sight on the world
Like the fictional Aladdin and his magic lamp, new Malaysian start-up Aladdin Street is ready to light up the e-commerce world with halal products and to give giants in this field, Amazon and Alibaba, a run for their money.The new venture’s co-founder Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the first Malaysia [...]
The Millennial Traveller: How a heritage race opened my eyes to Kuching
In an industry where government tourism boards relentlessly invoke buzzwords and catch phrases to generate publicity, it becomes easy to build a certain level of cynicism (or perhaps ‘scepticism’ is a better word) about the strategies used to attract visitors to target destinations.
There is an [...]
China’s pink travel market waiting to be tapped
The global LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) travel market is big – over USS200 billion in annual spend, and is growing. One market, which is slowly but surely contributing to this growth, is China.Although homosexuality is a sensitive topic in China, where traditional family values are s [...]
Booking.com dominates, Agoda makes showing in Europe
SiteMinder's list of top 10 hotel booking sites in 2015 within five of Europe and Asia Pacific's top travel markets shows the clear dominance of booking.com across markets including Thailand where its sister company Agoda is based.Interestingly, the results also show Agoda making headway in markets [...]
APAC is biggest travel market, Thailand is the star
APAC’s tourism industry is now the biggest in the world (having overtaken Europe in 2014 in its contribution to global GDP), and the underlying momentum for growth is expected to continue, with a projected 500m arrivals by 2020.The findings contained in MasterCard's inaugural Asia Pacific Destinat [...]
The Wrap: ASEAN for ASEAN – new joint campaign to promote intra-regional travel
In the news: ASEAN for ASEAN campaign, Amadeus' new partnership with AccesRail, trending destinations for Singapore travellers, Thailand hotels’ top booking sites ASEAN for ASEAN: new joint campaign to promote intra-regional travel It’s all for one and one for all as the 10 member countries of A [...]
TravelersBox, armed with $10m new funding, will focus on Asia
TravelersBox, claiming to be the first and only solution allowing travelers to convert leftover foreign currency into usable digital currency, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Arbor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of financial [...]
