Travel is back to “old normal”: GHA sees growth in revenue, ADR and international stays
UAE is top destination, delivering US$32m in room revenue in Q4 2022
UAE-headquartered Global Hotel Alliance, the world’s largest alliance of 40 independent hotels brands, has reported robust 2022 results, with every performance indicator exceeding 2019 levels by Q4 – an indication of travel’ [...]
SIA, Tourism Australia in love match to promote incentives down under
You could call it a partnership forged in love – love for travel, for business events and for two destinations that are co-joined by their history and future. One needs the other to thrive. And it was sealed on February 4, Valentine's Day, at a media and industry event.
The gift exchange betw [...]
Online travel agencies gain hotel booking ground in 2022
Online travel agencies and other intermediaries, such as tour operators and destination management companies, regained ground in 2022, according to a report.
SiteMinder has crunched data from more than 100 million reservations last year to reveal Booking.com as the most popular booking channel acr [...]
Top of the WiT 18: ChatGPT is the biggest thing, Traveller Tribes, betting on trip planners, and AI poems
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news that happened this week in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a quick-and-easy nugget-sized podcast.
We're joined by Christian Watts (Founder and CEO, Magpie Travel) to discuss the potential of ChatGPT in the Tours and Activities space. We al [...]
Trip.com: New real-time travel guide, using GPT tech, isn’t frazzled by vague questions
TripGen offers travel tips and itinerary suggestions through real-time communication
Trip.com has launched TripGen, a chatbot designed to provide travellers with live assistance through Artificial Intelligence technology. Trip.com implemented this technology to enable users to receive tailored trav [...]
Chat GPT writes poetry for Agoda; Startup clears aircraft aisles; Watchdog hunts dodgy influencers
Bonza ditches the meal trolley for food-by-app
Manish Raniga, CEO of Airline Investments, 777 Partners (owner of Australian low-cost start-up Bonza), has been talking to Future Travel Experience about the airline’s digitally native and customer-centric strategy, and the innovative tech it will ut [...]
Travel allows you to do whatever makes your heart sing
That’s why travel brands are dancing all the way to the bank
In a clear sign that travel is back, I’ve been getting a lot of visitors lately and it’s such a pleasure to be playing tour guide again at home instead of having to play domestic tourist as we all had to do these past couple of ye [...]
Jigger ready to take on jumbo task of connectivity and integration in tours, activities and attractions
Go City’s Abendano on lessons learnt in Singapore and solving localisation pain points
He was nearly named Jumbo because he was an 11-pound baby. But thankfully, because his father was at a bar, having whiskey with friends, while he was entering the world, his parents decided to name him Jigger ( [...]
Event: China Arising forum set for Singapore, March 30
WiT – Web in Travel, in collaboration with Travel Daily China, will stage a China Arising forum on March 30 in Singapore to share first-hand insights into how the Chinese online travel landscape has changed in the years since the pandemic first took hold.
The half-day event, themed “Hello, Ne [...]
Metaverse Builders in Asia: M Social on finding new customers and engaging with them
“The revenue did surprise us, so did the engagement”
IT’S important to understand this single fact about the metaverse that has been echoed by many experts, analysts, and industry leaders – technically, it does not exist. Yet. At least, not in its complete form.
What does exist, though, [...]
