Red Planet takes stake in Tune as low cost brand expands
Red Planet Hotels has invested a 16.05% stake in Tune Hotels, making it the third largest investor in the Malaysia-based hotel chain, which is spreading its wings in ASEAN and around the world.Bangkok-based Red Planet Hotels, a major franchisee of Tune Hotels in South-east Asia, said the deal rep [...]
Raja Kamar casts wider net with Blackberry app
PT Raja Kamar Indonesia, the country’s leading domestic online hotel booking business, launches its new, free Blackberry app this evening in Jakarta.The app will allow registered rajakamar.com members to search, book and pay for domestic hotels 24 hours a day using their BlackBerry handsets.Sc [...]
New solution to give hotels direct control over allotments and inventory
A Malaysian company has developed the Hotel Allotment System (HAS) which promises to give hotels direct control over their room inventory management.The system, operating from a single platform, allows hoteliers to streamline multiple sales channels including their OTAs and wholesalers by centralisi [...]
Bad news, mass stupefaction of content. Good news, more efficiencies
“Do you mind? I just have to respond to this,” said Richard Quest as I prepared to sit down and ask him my first question.So I waited. It’s not an unusual occurrence these days – for face-to-face meetings to be interrupted by phone calls and instant messages. It seems to be the thing to do [...]
Singapore’s Chan Brothers first in APAC to use Amadeus Mobile Traveller
Chan Brothers, one of Singapore’s leading travel agency, is the first company in Asia Pacific to choose Amadeus’ newly created Amadeus Mobile Traveller to address the needs of its customers, as well as to stay one step ahead of the curve.The agency’s group managing director and CEO, Anthony [...]
Top travel websites in June – Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Data from Experian Hitwise shows the same players in the three countries dominated the online scene last month as in May, with Wotif.com, Jipiao.trip.taobao.com and Expedia Singapore topping the list.See slideshow below for the full details.Australia • The Australia online travel scen [...]
Next stop for daily deals – global and personal, says Living Social’s Nazar Musa
To be honest (everybody starts their sentence with these three words these days so I might as well do it too), I had stopped thinking about daily deals until this week when I found myself dining on curry fish head at Samy’s at Dempsey, thanks to a Groupon coupon someone had bought.And then this s [...]
Online travel service Valadoo flying high
Business has been good for the new Indonesia start-up, Valadoo, which reported a 300% increase in order inquiries in Q2 2012 and 500% growth in sales in the past three months. "The growth of our business has been phenomenal. We started this business to encourage people to travel more and enjoy t [...]
Fun before trust for Singapore travellers
Who do you like to travel with? Someone like you or someone totally unlike you? Well, a new survey by hotels.com reveals insights into Singapore travellers that may or may not surprise you.Firstly, Singapore travellers prefer to flock with the same-feathered birds - 61% indicated that having simila [...]
WIT Start-Up Pitch: Call For Entries
The WIT Start-Up Pitch will once again be held as part of the WIT Bootcamp and Conference in Singapore, October 15-17.The annual competition to find the best travel start-up in the digital travel space in Asia Pacific will be run at the WIT Bootcamp on October 15 and the winner announced at the conf [...]
