The Wrap: M’sian PM calls for promotion of Asean as a single tourist destinaton
In the news: GOASEAN launched, Ingresso app plugin for Travelport, TripAdvisor’s Travellers' Choice Landmarks M'sian PM calls for promotion of Asean as a single tourist destinationThe 10 Asean countries should make a collective effort to promote the region as a single tourist destination, is the c [...]
Travelport opens its Labs Incubator to help develop travel start-ups
Travelport has developed a seed stage investment and mentorship programme to accelerate the growth of start-up companies focused on travel commerce.
The Incubation programme will run in four-month-cycles with four start-ups accepted for each cycle. Mentors will be in-house Travelport experts [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Strong reactions follow Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings, stay-at-home holidays for Brits, habits of China’s super travellers revealed.
Strong reactions follow Lufthansa’s proposed levy on GDS bookings
Reactions followed swiftly after Lufthansa announced a levy [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Beyond city limits, parallels between Perth and Singapore
From a tourist’s perspective, it seems both Singapore’s and Western Australia’s tourism industries are beginning to make a conscious and strategic effort to battle past public perceptions as, most simply put, one-dimensional business destinations.
Singapore and Perth, Australia could be (an [...]
“Technically bankrupt” Malaysia Airlines to break even by 2018 with operation recovery
An industry friend commented when Christoph Mueller was appointed to take over the troubled Malaysia Airlines (MAS), and to set it on the path to profitabilty that it “would take a brave, brave man to lift an airline that has fallen so far down to fly high again”.
But then again Mueller is no [...]
Klook Travel raises US$1.5 million funding, aims to revolutionise Asia’s travel activities space
Hong Kong-based travel activities booking start-up, Klook Travel, on June 1 announced its completion of a US$1.5 million seed investment round, as well as the launch of Klook Mobile.
The investment round was led mainly led by mainland China tech veteran, Xiaoguang Wu, who is Tencent’s senio [...]
The Wrap: 3.2 billion Internet users by end 2015
In the news: ITU’s report on global Internet usage, TripAdvisor’s new Chinese brand name, Travelport’s merchandising solution for TTS, Hotels.com’s awards programme for hotels
3.2 billion Internet users by end 2015
A staggering 3.2 billion people, or half the world’s current 7.2 [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Axe to fall on MAS staff as airline appoints new administrator
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: New adminstrator for Malaysia Airline, environmental concerns for Mergui, Seatrade Cruise Asia in June
Axe to fall on MAS staff as airline appoints new administrator
Malaysia Airlines’ owner Khazanah Nasional Bhd has appointed Datuk Mohammad Faiz Azmi [...]
WIT Start-Up: Journeyful – a rewards based hotel-booking engine
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
Journeyful operates in the double-sided market of travel.
On one side, we service travellers with our online travel agency, Journeyful.com and offer them the best prices in the market with a robust rewards program.
On the [...]
eLong gears up for new avatar, set for sharper focus on lodging
This is an article by Ritesh Gupta, ChinaTravelNews.
Post Expedia’s decision to sell its equity stake in eLong, it is expected that the operations of eLong would solely focus on the online hotel booking segment. The plan from here on may be to replicate the model of priceline group’s booking. [...]
