From Startup winner to global success: Wheel the World’s accessible travel revolution continues
Revenue has tripled since winning Global Startup Pitch two years ago – improving access to travel for more than 20,000 people
Wheel the World, the award-winning online travel marketplace making the world accessible to people with disabilities, is empowering tourism offices, destination marketing [...]
Italy fines tour operators. Sabre and CellPoint target airline payments. Klook and STB renew MoU. More.
Klook inks multi-year partnership with Singapore Tourism Board to drive growth
Klook and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) have signed a new three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), set to begin in April 2025, building on their 2023 partnership. This collaboration aims to support STB’s Touri [...]
HolidayPirates Group grew mediated Total Transaction Value by 20% in 2024
The figures show that the group’s commercial strategy, based on social media and direct messaging channels is paying off, as its social media followers increased from thirteen to nearly seventeen million.
The online travel marketplace based in Berlin achieved 477 million in mediated Total Transac [...]
Catch-up podcast: Trump’s tariffs. Saudi Arabia’s tourism surge. Global airline demand slows.
We're trying something new with our weekly-ish podcast - we're outsourcing it to Artificial Intelligence. This is both an experiment and, if we're being honest, a convenient way to digest the top articles of the week from the WiT website into a nugget-of-a-podcast. We'll release a new episode every [...]
Stephan Ekbergh on new life, close calls and renaissance | Conversations On Turning 20
When you get to the ripe young age of 20, you’re bound to collect lots of stories – not only about the past but lessons for the future.
As WiT marks its 20th year in 2025, we turn the spotlight on our community, our tribe pioneers and leaders, to tell their stories and share their views on th [...]
PerkUP Inc. raises 50 million Yen in seed round to advance tourism DX
PoC for “MEETSCUL,” a Hand-Raise style matching engine connecting groups and local communities, to launch in Nagano in April 2025
PerkUP Inc., which operates co-workation.com, a one-stop booking platform for corporate groups, has completed a 50-million-yen seed round. The funding includes [...]
Fliggy’s tangible AI progress. Spanish govt supports Smartvel. AI uptake could be better. More.
One quarter of travel operators yet to implement AI
A new survey conducted ahead of the 2025 TravelTech Show in London reveals that AI remains the top investment priority for travel operators, with nearly two-thirds planning to boost their technology budgets over the next year. Among 94 surveyed Eu [...]
Hari Raya trends: More Malaysians travelling to secondary cities and longer-haul destinations
This year’s Hari Raya Aidilfitri is a huge demand driver for international and domestic travel. According to Trip.com, a one-stop travel service provider, international travel bookings by Malaysians for this year’s Aidilfitri season (29 March to 6 April 2025) grew by 111% while domestic travel [...]
Saudi Arabia Online Travel Agency (OTA) market skyrockets | OTA air GBV hits US$1.9 billion, hotel climbs to $2.3 billion
VIDEC releases new travel market sizing & OTA benchmarking study highlighting significant growth in Saudi Arabia's market
VIDEC Consultants has released preliminary insights from its latest VIDEC’s GCC & Egypt Travel Market Study, 2019-2028. VIDEC undertook independent, rigorous and unbia [...]
Travalyst’s ‘Five-Year Milestone Report’ calls on industry to align around three core goals
Travalyst, a not-for-profit coalition of some of the biggest names in travel and technology founded by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, has published its Five-Year Milestone Report. In the report, Travalyst outlines its achievements since its founding, sets the course for the years ahea [...]
