Letter from Shanghai: Ctrip pushes on, global brands and lessons learnt in China and holy places, here we come
Things are at a different scale in China and this fact was hammered home when on my walk to the venue for the 12th TravelDaily Conference & Digital Travel Show (CDTS), I encountered a giant giraffe at the road crossing.
Whatever its purpose is, it served as a great landmark and over my two da [...]
Plug & Play Travel plans launch in Singapore to bridge gap between innovators and corporations
Plug & Play Tech Center, the Silicon Valley-based company that bridges the gap between innovators and corporations, is looking to launch its Travel & Hospitality vertical in Singapore to plug into what it feels is a market gap waiting to be addressed.
It held its first event last week in [...]
Strong consumer support contributes US$47b in extra revenue for airlines
An estimated 73 airlines made a whopping US$47.2 billion in extra revenue from a wide range of à la carte, commission-based, and frequent flyer related activities, representing 9.6% of total sales for these carriers.
The data is disclosed in the 2018 edition of the CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue [...]
The Wrap: Macao launches international digital campaign in partnership with Culture Trip
In the News: Of partnerships, music, people and achievements featuring Macao, Culture Trip, Travelport, Singapore Tourism Board, Spotify and Sabre
Destination: Macao launches international digital campaign in partnership with Culture Trip
London-based media startup Culture Trip is wor [...]
LINE TRAVEL jp receives a record 20 million visitors
Japan’s leading online travel metasearch and media, LINE TRAVEL jp, is seeing a rapid increase in visitors to its site, recording 20 million in August 2018.
Venture Republic, which operates the site, says this represents a hike of five million visitors in just three months, from the 15 million [...]
Tripfez launches Umrah API to power Islamic app Raudhah
Two Malaysian companies - Muslim-friendly hotel booking portal Tripfez and digital marketing specialist Media Prima Digital - have introduced a new *Umrah package booking feature on Raudhah, designed to cater to the religious needs of Muslims in Malaysia and globally.
The new booking featur [...]
TripAdvisor unveils the next big thing – the world’s most “personalised and connected” travel community
When Steve Kaufer was last in Singapore this time last year, he spoke to us about his vision for TripAdvisor to offer “the complete package to enable our 400 million users to experience much better vacations”.
“In five years’ time, with the TripAdvisor app, you will book and search in way [...]
ZEN Rooms expands to leasing and management model
Fresh from its US$15 million investment round by Korea’s Yanolja, ZEN Rooms, which started in 2015 with a partial inventory model, and moved to a franchise/revenue management model early last year, is progressing to leasing and operating its own hotels.
Shohita Choudhry, country manager, Singap [...]
Mystifly blends Indian, Japanese and Chinese leadership in new bid to scale and make air shopping better
The biggest promise that the Internet brought was access to content anywhere and anytime. “Why should airfare booking be any different?” This thought gave birth to Mystifly back in 2009. Ten years on, the business, which started as an India-based B2B airfare marketplace to provide a corporate tr [...]
TripAdvisor lauds Italian ruling to jail online review fraudsters
A new legal ruling in Italy and a landmark case that saw a persistent online review fraudster jailed has gotten the thumbs up by TripAdvisor, a user review site that brands itself as “the global leader in online review fraud prevention”.
In one of the first legal cases of its kind, the Crimin [...]
