These are the destinations of choice for MENA travellers
Online travel marketplace Wego has released the MENA Traveller Destination Leaderboards for Q2 2018, which looks at the rise and fall in popularity of travel destinations among travellers from the MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) region.
The destination rankings are derived from the flight [...]
Prashant Kirtane out to make Travelstop unstoppable as agent of change in unmanaged corporate travel in Asia
Three years after the sale of Travelmob to HomeAway, co-founder Prashant Kirtane has launched his new startup, Travelstop, to become the “Slack of unmanaged corporate travel” for SMEs in Asia.
The startup, aimed at solving pain points from booking to expense management to providing data insig [...]
Impact of technology on travel: Enriches not dehumanises the travel experience, report says
A friend was in Shanghai recently and took a cab to a restaurant, and on arrival she took out cash to pay for the fare. The driver stared at her, said he didn’t accept cash, that she paid with WeChat Pay, which she didn’t have. To cut a long story short, she somehow managed to get the driver to [...]
The Wrap: Singapore Airlines teams up with Alibaba’s Fliggy for mileage points sharing
In the news: Singapore Airlines and Fliggy ink 'loyalty' partnership, Alipay launches paperless tax refund service in South Korea, Xiamen Airlines uses SITA tech solution to stay competitive
Loyalty: Singapore Airlines teams up with Alibaba's Fliggy for mileage points sharing
Singapore Air [...]
Everyone wants to be an Experience Maker – lessons from Coca-Cola and ONE Championship
It seems everyone wants to be in the experience business these days, whether you’re selling bottles of sugared water, body lotion, education or sports. At the Adobe Symposium, held in Singapore this week, they call themselves experience makers.
As I listened to speaker after speaker talk about [...]
Bringing GRRRL Power to Asia – how Olson built a women sportswear brand out of a social movement
In our continuing series of articles around our WIT Singapore Conference theme of “Through The Looking Glass”, where we look outside travel in search of different stories and lessons, we look at how Kortney Olson built a women sportswear brand out of a social movement around giving women self-co [...]
Travelport and IBM introduce AI platform to manage corporate travel spend
Corporate travel is on the rise, and with annual global business travel spend to reach a record US$1.2 trillion this year, as projected by the Global Business Travel Association, travel managers are continuously looking for new ways to reduce costs.
To get a full picture of travel patterns, [...]
SIA launches fourth AppChallenge to solve five pain points
As part of its ongoing Digital Blueprint, Singapore Airlines launched its fourth AppChallenge last night at Block 71 in conjunction with NUS Enterprise, the innovation and entrepreneurship division of the National University of Singapore.
A full house turned out to listen to what the dominant [...]
The Wrap: Blacklane’s new service assists travellers bypass immigration/security lines at 500 airports
In the news: Blacklane launches new airport concierge service, Amadeus NDC programme has a new partner, Wego and Airbnb team up
Ground Transport: Blacklane’s new service assists travellers bypass immigration/security lines at 500 airports
Travellers can now skip security and immigratio [...]
AirAsia sells remaining 25% stake In Expedia JV, its last non-core investment
Malaysia-based low cost airline, AirAsia, announced Tuesday (August 14) that it has divested its remaining 25% equity interest in joint venture unit, AAE Travel Pte. Ltd., to Expedia Group for US$60 million (RM240 million) cash.
“The cash consideration is US$60 million, net of AirAsia’s [...]
