Airbnb and BCD Travel integrate data through new partnership
BCD Travel has signed up with Airbnb, the short-term rental service, to integrate the data of their shared corporate travel clients to provide them with a new security and risk management offering.
This feature can track the location and trip patterns of business travellers who book accommodation [...]
The Wrap: CarTrawler teams up with Hotels.com to broaden its ancillary offering
The weekly news roundup: It’s all about partnership this week – Hotel.com partners with CarTrawler, Uber rides with Kaligo, and Mauritania Airlines selects Travelport's distribution solution
SECTORS: CarTrawler team up with Hotels.com to broaden ancillary offering
Leading online travel [...]
Developing your playbook for Asia – nuances matter, people critical
Travel insiders from Asia picked social, mobile and content as the new opportunities for Asia.
As with entry into any new markets, you’ve got to develop the right playbook. The fundamentals may be similar – yes, get the product right, define your market, hire the right team – but it’s in [...]
Under Brexit cloud, travel leaders share experiences of Asia
The timing of the first WIT Europe in London held yesterday could not have happened at a more poignant time in the city’s history and travel industry leaders, while grappling with uncertainty, agreed there couldn’t be a better time than now to seize the Asia opportunity.
Every speaker express [...]
The Wrap: Sabre unveils new next-generation travel agency platform
The weekly news roundup: Refreshed Sabre Red Workspace for travel industry, Android Pay in Singapore, Asian airlines’ performance in May
TECHNOLOGY: Sabre unveils new next-generation travel agency platform
Sabre Corporation has given travel consultants and suppliers across the airline, hote [...]
Letter from London: Brexit aftermath and an Icelandic moment that united
Twenty four hours in London, and it's rather surreal. On the surface, it seems nothing's changed since my last visit a month ago, yet so much has.
I can sense the shock and disbelief that it’s come to pass and the realities and (some regrets) are starting to sink in – what happens now after B [...]
A Matter of Opinion: Bobby Healy on Google’s Stealth Attack on Travel
Bobby Healy, CTO, CarTrawler, believe that Google poses the biggest long-term threat to the profitability and growth of airlines, hoteliers and travel intermediaries that they have ever seen. Here’s why.
Over the last number of years, Google has entered more and more areas of the market thro [...]
Anand Nadathur takes lessons from father to sharpen SilverNeedle for next generation of travellers
The occasion was the launch of the first Sage Hotel in Western Perth but actually it was more significant than that for Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality – it also marked the comeback of Anand Nadathur to the business he founded.
Anand, the younger son and director of the Nadathur Gr [...]
Fear only the fearmongers
It’s an interesting place to be. Here we are planning for our first WIT Europe conference in London and we don’t know if by June 30, Britain will still be part of the EU depending on how the referendum on June 23 goes.
Some people would call it awful timing but for me, it's the best of time � [...]
Meet Nina, your virtual travel agent
Nina, described as a robot that empowers business travellers and a virtual travel agent, was the winner at the recent IATA NDC Hackathon in Berlin.
She was developed and delivered by Caravelo, a Barcelona based travel technology company, as a white-label travel concierge service.
The hackathon [...]
