Bolstered by new funding, MTT sets out to expand
Travel technology specialist, Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT), intends to spread to new markets with its latest financing from DFJ Esprit, one of Europe's largest venture capital firms.The US$5 million round of funding will also be used to strengthen the team at its headquarters in The Digital [...]
Abacus, Raja Kamar team up behind hotel wholesale product
The battle for hotel content continues. Abacus International, in partnership with Indonesia-based Raja Kamar International, is rolling out a hotel wholesaler product, RoomDeal, which will give its agents access to the best nett rates firstly in Indonesia and then more markets as the product is roll [...]
TripZilla wants to rule as Singapore outbound one-stop site
Having built its inbound portal, ComeSingapore.com, into a “fairly respectable” size with 300,000 unique visits a month, Travelogy.com is now out to create a one-stop outbound travel site in Singapore and eventually, Malaysia and the Philippines.It has since rebranded its tourpackages.com.sg [...]
Abacus, TravelSky boost hotel content; Air China moves with Amadeus
Seems China’s hot on the radar of GDS this morning. Received two news items, one after the other. Felt like fireworks popping.One, Abacus International signs a joint hotel sharing technology service agreement with TravelSky. This means both parties will share their hotel content to provide a more [...]
ezytravel.co.id makes comeback to claim lead in flights
Not many people know this but the first local attempt to set up an Indonesia OTA was made in 2008. The Dwidaya group, one of the country’s big three travel families, took the first step withezytravel.co.id.Unfortunately, after six months, the site crashed, said founder Eric Tjetjep. “We had too [...]
Discovering Kuala Lumpur the TripAdvisor way
TripAdvisor recently announced it added 30 global travel destinations to its offline mobile City Guides (for iPhone and Android) including Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Hearing good things about these guides, I decide to test drive my adopted city of residence – Kuala Lumpur.In the course of my wo [...]
The world is flocking to UK for London 2012
Travel data provided by Amadeus and ForwardKeys.com, revealed the travel trends impacted by London 2012 Olympics. International visitors are set to flock to London for the Games (July 23-August 12), based on actual global air reservations, with Asia representing the highest growth region for bo [...]
Wego’s global and digital queen – the face of a new travel generation
Blanca Menchaca was born in Mexico, studied in Australia and now lives in Singapore. She flies around the world on a regular basis, thinks nothing of heading to Norway for a long weekend, and believes a flight of 30 hours is ‘not really that long’. To refer to Menchaca as a global citizen is the [...]
Wotif takes lessons from local markets as it expands
Wotif.com has cornered the online accommodation booking space in Australia and New Zealand, turning over US$1.1 billion worth of bookings per year for the 10,000 accommodation providers in Australia and New Zealand and 7,000 in South-east Asia listed on its site.Claiming a market share of 10% of a [...]
WITNext job camp: Calling students, entrepreneurs, tourism professionals and mentors
From left, Syaz and Gerry testing the visualiser in a seminar room; one of the rooms where the bootcamps will be held; and the auditorium where the conference track will staged So we’ve done our site inspection of the SMU Admin Building where we will be holding our first ever WITNext Summ [...]
