The Wrap: Abu Dhabi a hot spot for Asian travellers
In the news this week: Abu Dhabi trending for Asian travellers, Hilton's new Japanese lanaguage website, Europe tourism on the rise, TripAdvisor's new commercial director for APAC.Abu Dhabi a hot spot for Asian travellersAbu Dhabi is now one of the hottest new destinations to trend in Asia. Travel a [...]
Lodgify to empower vacation rental owners in Asia and Europe
After successfully launching in the US, Lodgify, a travel technology start-up based in Barcelona, is now offering its Website Builder to European and Asian holiday rental owners.Lodgify enables holiday rental owners to easily create a website with a “Book now” button and manage their reservation [...]
The sky’s the limit for AirAsia
All eyes are again on AirAsia, Southeast Asia’s biggest low-cost carrier, as it places a firm order for 200 A320neos at the Paris Air Show, sets up a world-class aviation training centre in Sepang, has five new destinations under its belt and mulls over plans to fly to Africa.And some wonder wh [...]
Expedia goes to Seoul; Travelocity adds Android …
Expedia launches in South KoreaExpedia launched its Korean language website coinciding with the company's entrance into the South Korean travel market.Expedia Asia CEO Dan Lynn (left) stated the company opened its Korean language website earlier this month, making the country its eighth operational [...]
Tourism Australia banks on social advocacy to meet new targets
Social advocacy will be at the heart of Tourism Australia’s marketing strategy as it tries to ramp up its tourism industry to double visitor expenditure by 2020.Which is why it was rather ironic that there was no wireless access in the venue where the press conference was held to enable the intern [...]
Travelport dismisses AA’s allegations as ‘ludicrous and without merit’
Travelport says it intends to vigorously defend against a “ludicrous and meritless” antitrust lawsuit filed by American Airlines (AA) in Fort Worth, TX. This is the release issued by Travelport:“AA’s antitrust complaint contains significant factual inaccuracies, including, for example, wron [...]
Travelport enables pre-paid seat bookings with BA
Travelport has confirmed that travel agencies in the UK are now able to book pre-paid seating on BA flights for the first time through the GDS channel. Previously, this optional extra was only bookable via ba.com. The industry first offered to Travelport subscribers follows the global, full cont [...]
Travelport Opinions launches in Asia, will agents embrace it and express themselves?
The positive response thus far to its social networking site for travel professionals was what led Travelport to launch Travelport Opinions in Asia.Asked if any targets had been set for the Asia launch announced recently, spokesperson for Travelport Asia Pacific, Michael Yates, said, “We haven� [...]
Travelport signs training pact with Shanghai University
Travelport has signed a groundbreaking training partnership agreement with Shanghai DongHua University, the first time a Chinese university has partnered with a foreign GDS for training.The move is in line with Travelport’s wider plans to increase training initiatives across the Asia-Pacific regi [...]
Rivals become allies, what’s in store as AirAsia + MAS join hands
It's a done deal. On August 9, Khazanah Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s state investment arm, and Tune Air Sdn Bhd, both major shareholders of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and AirAsia respectively inked a deal that saw Tune getting a 20.5% stake in MAS and Khazanah 10% equity in AirAsia. The partnershi [...]
