The Millennial Traveller: Matching resolutions with recommendations could be best way to avoid family fights
In an attempt to make New Year’s resolutions less of a burden on our moral conscience, Booking.com (in partnership with Weiden+Kennedy) has unveiled a ‘Resolution Translator’ as part of a Best 2016 Ever campaign (as opposed to the other 2016, which isn’t looking as great) to revive a sense o [...]
CruiseWorld China sails back to Shanghai in March
Travel Weekly China’s second annual CruiseWorld China in Shanghai will be held at the Le Royal Meridien on March 30.The one-day event brings hundreds of travel agents and cruise industry leaders together for networking, learning, and discussion about the rapidly growing cruise market.“Our very [...]
Tuniu cements position as one-stop platform for Chinese travellers
Following the completion of its US$500 million investment from HNA Tourism Group, Tuniu Corporation (Nasdaq:TOUR) has put in place a range of strategic initiatives to enhance its hotel booking, themed tours, and air ticketing business units The leading Chinese online leisure travel company says it [...]
The Wrap: Good year for international tourism in 2015, record of 1.2b travellers
In the news: UNWTO’s report on overseas travel, Thai Lion Air’s first GDS partner, Amadeus’ new rebooking solution for travellers, SLH's redesigned Apple appGood year for international tourism in 2015, record of 1.2b travellersDespite fear of terrorism and attacks on holidaymakes in various pa [...]
WIT and Hotel ICON team up for WIT Hospitality
In line with Web In Travel’s (WIT) mantra of innovation and nurturing new talent, the first WIT Hospitality in Hong Kong on March 22, 2016 will be held in partnership with Hotel ICON, the teaching and research hotel built for the School of Hotel and Tourism Management by the Hong Kong Polytechnic [...]
Chinese travellers spent US$229b in retail, says GfK study
The number of Chinese outbound travellers topped 109 million in 2015, and they spent a total of US$229 billion in retail.The statistics, revealed by Nuremberg-based market research institute GfK in its latest analysis of the Chinese market, billed this development “a key milestone in China’s out [...]
Technology lets tourists ‘go local’ with micromoments
This is a guest blog by Bronwyn White, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism, and aviation industries.I was delighted a few weeks ago when I saw that Airbnb had created a new product off the back of Google market research around [...]
Northstar Travel Media rebrands as Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Media, owner of WIT, has been rebranded Northstar Travel Group, a move that chairman and CEO, Tom Kemp, said highlighted the transformation of Northstar into the leading B2B information, business intelligence, commerce and events platform serving the travel and meetings industries.� [...]
£128 million in new investment for Skyscanner
Five new partners of Skyscanner are collectively investing £128 million (US$192 million) in the global search engine.The investment from Artemis (global fund manager), Baillie Gifford (independent investment manager based in Edinburg), Khazanah Nasional Berhad (sovereign wealth fund of the Malaysia [...]
Fresh funding for online hotel booking start-up, SavvyMob
Bengaluru-based SavvyMob, an on-demand mobile marketplace for last minute hotel rooms in India, has closed a seed investment to further expand its product and to strengthen its technology team.The investment is led by Mohandas Pai’s Aarin Capital and includes members of prominent business houses i [...]
