India’s ground transportation: Analyzing market dynamics of rail and intercity bus travel
The Indian transport and mobility landscape is undergoing a transformation, powered by significant investments in both physical and digital infrastructure. Against the backdrop of a burgeoning transportation industry, the India Ground Transportation Market Sizing & OTA Benchmarking Study, FY20-F [...]
Giants rev-up marketing. WayAway for female-led travel. Google joins SAF program.
WayAway responds to demand for female-led travel by highlighting women-owned businesses and safe locations
WayAway has responded to a growing demand for female-led travel experiences by launching a new feature that highlights female-led businesses and locations of interest to women. The feature, ti [...]
Building Meili and Manna: How Bobby Healy wants to end “fiasco of car hire brokering” and change the world of delivery
The one thing you can count on when you speak to Bobby Healy is, he’s a straight shooter. When you ask him why he founded Meili Travel Technology, his new car rental business in direct competition with CarTrawler, the company he helped build over 15 years, his answer, “It was the right thing to [...]
Bookaway Group rebrands as Travelier to unite the company’s multiple subsidiaries
Travel tech company aims to strengthen its market-leadership by doubling-down on ground and sea transportation.
Travelier (formerly Bookaway Group), an online platform for ground and sea transportation worldwide, has announced the unveiling of its new name, officially uniting the company’s multip [...]
SmartRyde Inc raises $3.4 million in series A+ funding round, introduces “Demand Partner API”
Company will invest in corporate functions, building strengths of business teams, and product development.
Japan-based SmartRyde Inc, the owner of a pre-booked airport transfer marketplace, SmartRyde, announced that it has published a new product called “Demand Partner API”.
With this prod [...]
Amadeus returns to annual profit and resumes dividend, reinforcing travel recovery worldwide
“Into 2023, as volumes recover, our financial performance is expected to advance further.”
If there was any doubt about the state of travel and tourism recovery on a global scale, Amadeus’ latest earnings report should ease those concerns. While the company is still striving to meet pre-pande [...]
Travel-tech group Bookaway invests millions in building centralised transportation hub – here’s why
Bookaway Group says the industry is fragmented and aims to aggregate data for over 100 markets globally
“The centralized hub will be a standardized database for the entirety of Bookaway Group’s network and subsidiaries”, said Omer Chehmer (COO and co-founder, Bookaway Group) when asked by WiT [...]
Bus, ferry, or train? Bookaway prepares for a surge as travellers return and China reopens
“We’re focusing on getting the business back post-Covid and scaling really, really fast with our existing operators.”
When we last spoke about Bookaway, it was Noam Toister, CEO and co-founder of Bookaway Group, who said that business in Asia was more affected than elsewhere because it was re [...]
Looking to double numbers in 2023, Singapore plots path to full recovery
Amid changing customer trends, STB to invest $110m in events, plans Rewards scheme
ON the Grab ride I took to attend the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) media briefing this morning – to unveil its 2022 tourism results – the driver told me he used to run one of Singapore’s top limousine transfer [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 07: Transforming mobility, cruise comeback, dreamers that do
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we talk about a company that wants to transform mobility, through data and analyti [...]
