Dailypoint stacks AI tools. Booking anxiety. Avelo Airlines disruption service. OneReg’s global expansion.
Booking anxiety surges in Northeast Asia
New research from Web in Travel and Phocuswright, powered by Protect Group, finds that geopolitical instability and travel uncertainty are driving a significant shift in booking behaviour across China, Japan, and South Korea. 42% of regional travellers now a [...]
53% of business travellers book outside approved channels due to lack of content
Nearly one-third of companies using a corporate online booking tool (OBT) report that 20% or more of travel spend is booked outside the approved platform, with 53% citing missing content as the main driver, reveals new research from Trip.Biz, the business travel brand of Trip.com Group.
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Asia Pacific travellers seek familiarity and practicality amid shifting global dynamics
Visa’s 2026 Global Travel Intentions study shows how Asia Pacific travellers seek trusted destinations, plan with greater intent, and seek flexibility to navigate global uncertainties
Visa has unveiled key findings from the 2026 Global Travel Intentions (GTI) study, the latest edition of its f [...]
Jesper Koll: Scarcity leads to innovation, lessons from Hello Kitty and Astro Boy
Jesper Koll, Senior Advisor, Wisdom Tree Investments, opened his presentation on “Destiny” at WiT Japan with the objection he hears most often: Japan's population is shrinking by nearly 3,000 people every day. How can anyone be bullish?
His counter argument – scarcity is the mother of inven [...]
Tripadvisor to sell TheFork to American Express for $700 million
Transaction highlights the value of Tripadvisor's portfolio and enables greater focus on experiences.
Tripadvisor, Inc. announced it has entered into a put option agreement to sell TheFork, its online restaurant reservation and management platform in Europe, to American Express for $700 million in [...]
The Great Destination Redistribution: Moving tourism from where it is to where it should be
Data, mindsets, resident sentiment and the uncomfortable truth about who really wants redistribution
The question of how to spread tourism more evenly across Japan, away from the overcrowded golden triangle of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka and into the rural towns, regional communities and hidden landscap [...]
Hotels losing to AI. Agents collapsing travel funnel. Video platforms impacting booking.
Trransfer Technologies and LINE GO team up to focus on enterprise travel in Taiwan
Trransfer Technologies, a global B2B ground transportation platform serving corporate travelers across 80+ destinations, has officially launched a partnership with LINE GO, Taiwan's leading MaaS platform, following a [...]
The demand for travel is there. Affordability is what’s broken.
What does it actually take to get more people across Southeast Asia traveling, and is the industry doing enough to make it happen?
Nadia Omer, CEO of AirAsia Move, spoke to WiT about how AI is reshaping the platform while pointing to data hygiene as an essential part of MOVE's process. "We realized [...]
Middle East disruptions and high fuel prices halve airline industry profitability
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its latest financial outlook for the global airline industry showing a halving of profitability as a result of war-related Middle East disruptions and high fuel prices. The regional landscape, however, is highly differentiated. At the geogr [...]
Toggle tax costing hotels. Wasted ad budgets. Juniper Group acquires DerbySoft. Cover Genius and Traveloka team up.
Cover Genius and Traveloka team up to embed travel protection across APAC
Insurtech Cover Genius has partnered with Southeast Asia's leading travel platform Traveloka to deliver embedded protection products across multiple markets. Australian customers can now access Cancellation Protection — cov [...]
