Jayride is global and now wants to be the “NDC of ride-hailing”
When asked about a group of people hovering around a high table in the hallway of Jayride’s Sydney headquarters, founder and managing director Rod Bishop explained they were doing a daily pow-wow, and they were doing it standing to “keep it short”.
Once you are privvy to Bishop’s vision map [...]
SIA seeks out ground-breaking ideas in travel tech for fifth AppChallenge
Singapore Airlines, in collaboration with NUS Enterprise, is on the hunt for the biggest breakthroughs in travel technology with this year’s SIA AppChallenge. The deadline for entries is August 23.
In its fifth year, the hackathon will
invite startups and university students to address six pai [...]
FlyMya takes flight as WiT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch champion
Myanmar-based OTA, FlyMya has emerged as this year’s winner of the WiT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch powered by Amadeus, held last week in Tokyo. Flymya was also the winner of the People’s Choice Award by popular vote.
As this year’s victor, FlyMya have won
tickets to attend WiT Si [...]
Letter from Kanazawa: Having a “kimono” moment in Japan’s New Golden Age
“Are we moving already?” We had not even put away our bags, let alone sat down and settled, when we realised the Shinkansen was already in motion. 11.35 to be exact.
We are headed to Kanazawa after an intense two days of WiT Japan & North Asia where the talk was about how tech was [...]
The Samurai swords are out in travel – Hughes calls out Google as an OTA, LINE reveals its superapp Pay power
A high-intensity Samurai “tate” swordfight opened the eighth WiT Japan & North Asia last week, leading some to draw a parallel with the growing competition in online travel. Certainly, the online share of the region’s market continues to grow but there’s no doubt that the intensity of t [...]
New Core Experience chief at TripAdvisor wants to bring empathy and human-centredness to build brand love
Coming from a non-travel background, Lindsay Nelson is keen to bring in fresh thinking and ideas to her role as president, Core Experience, TripAdvisor, a responsibility she describes as “bringing consumer empathy to TripAdvisor”.
“We are a content company, an information platform. It is [...]
Zara Khanna, 10, wants to change travel for kids and inspire girls to code
The
future of coding is in the hands of the next generation, and they’re starting
younger than you might think. Meet Zara Khanna, a precocious young girl of 10
with big plans to change travel through technology.
At just eight years old, Zara built her
first chatbot, Octa, to help fellow childr [...]
The story of Samurai Workout and how it wants to share Samurai spirit with travellers
Samurai Workout
opened the eighth WiT Japan & North Asia Main Stage in Tokyo today. Here’s
the story of how a Samurai swordfighter got into travel and how they want to
tell the story of Samurai to travellers.
Hiroki Noguchi was 14 years old when he first saw a Shinichi
(Sonny) Chiba movie [...]
Pricing and distribution havoc hits in-destination with rise of OTAs: Klook’s Fan predicts shift to dynamic pricing
Tours, as a category in travel, have been around since the beginning of well, travel. Laurent Kuenzle, CEO of destination management company Asian Trails, subtly reminded delegates attending Arival last week in Bangkok, “We’ve been doing tours since the beginning, tours are our DNA, experiences [...]
Agoda sees Yanolja stake as opportunity to break “wall between booking and on-property experience”
Booking Holdings’ investment into South Korean accommodation startup, Yanolja, its first foray into that market, was motivated by two key factors – the market opportunity as well as Yanolja’s unique model “which includes tens of thousands of hotels installed on its PMS”, said Agoda’s vi [...]
