Amadeus NEXT aims to power start-ups
As part of its drive to nurture and partner with travel start-ups in APAC, Amadeus, through its Amadeus NEXT programme, held a Bangkok Startup Weekend from July 24-26. The NEXT programme aims to leverage on the company’s technology, expertise, reach and funding to evolve new and original ideas in [...]
Russians generous with hotel reviews, UAE travellers most demanding
The scores are in – that is for hotel reviews. Russian travellers have emerged as the most generous in rating hotels and tend to give the highest scores, while travellers from the UAE are the most demanding.These were the results of the recent Travel Smarts survey by leading accommodation site, Ag [...]
The Wrap: Booking.com offers global accommodation options to Air China’s guests with new partnership
In the news: Booking.com’s partnership with Air China, new chief commercial officer for Malaysia Airlines, marketing deal between Canton Fair and Travelport, Wego insight into Lebaran 2015.Booking.com offers global accommodation options to Air China’s guests with new partnership Booking.com has [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Locally grown, locally eaten as ‘farm to table’ catches on
Hooray! The ‘farm to table’ concept has finally picked up in Singapore. Marketing strategies have shifted from boasting about the vast distances the piece of perfectly seared steak has travelled for your enjoyment to showing off the restaurant’s humble rooftop garden that yields just enough mi [...]
MakeMyTrip to invest $15 million in HolidayIQ
MakeMyTrip, India’s leading online travel company, has acquired a minority stake in HolidayIQ, a popular Indian travel community and holidays-planning recommendation engine. The company will pick up around 28% stake in HolidayIQ for $15 million. The transaction is scheduled to complete in July 201 [...]
Six global hot spots drive air travel price increases despite flat forecast for 2016
India, China, Colombia, Mexico, Singapore and Australia are the six hot spots where increased business travel demand is pushing up global air prices despite signs that they will be essentially flat in 2016.The findings are from the 2016 Global Travel Price Outlook, a research paper from the GBTA Fou [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Bali flights cancelled again due to ash cloud
Featured stories from TravelWeekly: Closure of Bali airport due to ash cloud, Airbnb’s new services for business travellers, Grand Hyatt’s strategies for the MICE marketBali flights cancelled again due to ash cloudThere was more misery for passengers flying between Australia and Bali on Wednesda [...]
Amadeus buys Itesso, adds hotel management to IT portfolio
Amadeus expands its technology offering to the hotel industry with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Itesso BV, a provider of cloud-native property management systems (PMS).Itesso currently provides PMS technology to 1,800 properties worldwide, with its new cloud-native Itesso Enterprise Lodging [...]
WIT Start-Up: Penroads – a social platform connecting travelers
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraphPenroads is a social travel platform that connects travelers by destination and travel dates. People can communicate with anyone using our direct user-to-user chat in real-time to find travel partners to travel together, plan activ [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Wanted – secret agents to snoop on luxury hotels
Featured stories from TravelWeekly: SLH search for mystery hotel inspectors, an "invasion" of the HOGS in Bali, more Hong Kong’s events to drive businessWanted: secret agents to snoop on luxury hotelsSmall Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) has launched a global search to find 25 new hotel inspector [...]
