Wego opens up two new APIs
Leading travel metasearch site, Wego.com is sharing their comprehensive travel technology, developing two new APIs (application programming interfaces) and making them available to the commercial market for the first time.The APIs provide developers, publishers, entrepreneurs, in fact any business [...]
Worldhotels lands first branded hotel in the Philippines
Worldhotel and Residences Makati is scheduled to open in the last quarter of 2013 in Makati Avenue, Metro Manila.The deluxe 4 star property features 252 guestrooms, including 72 suites, while the residences will feature 149 serviced apartments. Facilities include four restaurants and two bars, in a [...]
What does it take to make the world a better place? Passion, determination and tough love
People tell me I have the attention span of a gnat. These days, I think it’s down to that of a mini-gnat. Our minds flit from thing to thing as fast as our hands flick from devices to devices.Yet, I surprised myself last Saturday when I managed to sit through at least 20 Powerpoint presentations, [...]
AirAsia’s Kathleen Tan rules on Weibo, here’s why and how
Looks like AirAsia’s Group Head of Commercial, Kathleen Tan is doing something right at Sina Weibo – as of April 24, she has amassed 109,772 fans on the Chinese microblogging site.Thanks to personal and engaging content, her Weibo account now ranks 2510th most influential account out of 300 [...]
My Destination Launches in Singapore
My Destination has launched in Singapore as part of a global expansion covering 100 other destinations and spanning 60 countries.My Destination, which claims to attract 10 million visitors, is a global travel resource powered by a diverse community of local experts on the ground, providing unrivall [...]
Travora Media acquires Nile Project
Travora Media, which is creating a next-generation media brand in travel with local, social and mobile content services, has acquired The Nile Project, Inc (Nile Media).Terms of the acquisition of the San Francisco-based company with a portfolio of three websites: NileGuide, 10Best, and Localyte [...]
Lots of people, bad traffic, no road rules and this investor is in
Following his exit from Qunar, Fritz Demopoulos has set up his own investment fund, Queen’s Road Capital and he has one simple rule when it comes to making bets.“I like countries with big population, bad traffic and people don’t follow the rules of the road. That smells like an opportunity to [...]
AirBnB to expand footprint in South-east Asia
AirBnB, which calls itself “a community marketplace for unique spaces”, is planning to open an office in Singapore and is reportedly recruiting a managing director for South-east Asia.The move is part of an expansion plan into the region announced by co-founder Brian Chesky late last year when [...]
Growing pains at Skyscanner as it scales and adds rail
Guess it’s a good problem to have – when we met Ewan Gray, the Singapore-based director for Asia Pacific for Skyscanner, he was looking for new office premises.“So either we were bad in forecasting or we grew faster than we expected but we have outgrown our current office,” he laughed.Whe [...]
Indonesians embrace the online travel world
It’s indisputable; Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest growing emerging markets and nowhere is this more apparent than in the country’s enormous embrace of the online world.A reported 50 million Indonesians are now proactively online, incorporating the internet into their daily lives [...]
