CheckMate partners with global travel brands on its Guest Engagement Platform
CheckMate has launched its Guest Engagement Platform with several travel partners including Expedia, Kayak, Travelocity, Orbitz, TripCase, and Concur to accelerate mobile hotel check In and strengthen customer relationships.The company said that with its platform, travel distributors could strengthe [...]
Phocuswright Announces the Next Generation of Groundbreaking Travel Innovators
Travel industry research authority Phocuswright Inc. has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit, held on Nov. 11, the first day of The Phocuswright Conference currently underway in Los Angeles, Calif. Each year, 32 innovators are selected to demonstrate groundbreaking applicatio [...]
The View from Students: Don’t be afraid to make changes and take ownership of challenges
As part of our WITNext outreach to inspire and mentor young talent, we opened our events to tourism and hospitality students from the UNLV (University of Las Vegas). This is a summary by Jan Lim on The Challengers' panel on Day 1 of the WIT 2014 Conference on Oct 28.How does one infiltrate into tr [...]
The Wrap: Airports investing in IT to get ready for the “connected traveller”
In the news: Airports investing for the "connected traveller", 7 million landmark number for Tune Hotels, meetings trends in 2015 from CWT Meetings & EventsAirports investing in IT to get ready for the connected travellerAirports around the world rank improving passenger processes as the number [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Prepare To Be Surprised
I can’t count how many times I’ve been warned off travelling to certain places. South Africa is too dangerous, all of the Middle East is a warzone, Paris is ‘so overrated’, there’s nothing to do in Amsterdam beyond getting high and visiting the Anne Frank and sex museum in the same afterno [...]
Rome2rio brings door-to-door planning to Concur’s open platform
Rome2rio has entered into a partnership with Concur, the world’s leading provider of spend management solutions and services, to bring Rome2rio’s journey planning solutions to Concur users worldwide.With this partnership, Concur customers will be able to plan a complete door-to-door trip with Ro [...]
Hong Kongers favour OTAs for travel bookings
Research group GfK, in its Consumer Travel Tracker online survey conducted in Hong Kong, revealed an interesting insight - offline touch points are still heavily used in this developed country by nine in 10 (90%) travellers while 84% used online,However, when it comes to actual transactions online d [...]
Dragon Trail recognised for innovation in China market
Dragon Trail, a consultancy specialised in helping travel companies market to Chinese consumers using Internet technologies, has been recognised by the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute for its innovative approaches to building brand awareness and generate sales, using Internet technologies. [...]
A mobile app from BeMyGuest to help local suppliers grow their business
Singapore based travel site, BeMyGuest, has released the world’s first tours and activities mobile application for local suppliers to assist them to grow their business.The app, the result of one of many new features the company has been working on this year, is for Android devices with the iOS ve [...]
Airline ancillary revenue worldwide to top US$49.9bil in 2014
The CarTrawler Worldwide Estimate of Ancillary Revenue forecasts a 17.2% increase in ancillary revenue worldwide above 2013 to US$49.9 billion for 2014, with $28.5 billion of the total composed of a la carte fee activity.Earlier this year CarTrawler, leading provider of online car rental distributio [...]
