Asia’s growing for Rezgo but payments still tough nut to crack in tours and activities
Rezgo, the pioneer in cloud based software for tour and activity businesses and which recently crossed a million customers, is seeing 20% of its total bookings come from APAC operators.CEO Stephen Joyce, who told WIT that 22% of the tours offered in its system are based in the region, said that Asia [...]
HotelClub goes back to roots, targets China
Orbitz-owned HotelClub is gearing up to make big changes to its offering for consumers in mainland China by the end of the year.While making the HotelClub Chinese website more relevant to Chinese consumers, the brand is also repositioning itself – recognising its roots as a travel club.So far Hote [...]
Online population in Southeast Asia on the rise, with largest numbers in Vietnam
The number of Internet users in Southeast Asia increased by 9% to 62 million, outpacing the global Internet growth rate by more than 60%, according to comScore’s “2013 Southeast Asia Digital Future in Focus” report.With 16.1 million monthly internet users, Vietnam now has the largest onli [...]
The Wrap: Travelport unveils tool to customise flight search
In the news: Search Control Console from Travelport, passenger growth for APAC airlines, mobile apps for LAN and TAM airlines Travelport unveils tool to customise flight searchTravelport has launched its new Search Control Console, a customisable tool for flight search in real time.The company sa [...]
The Wrap: Secret Retreats partners SiteMinder to expand online presence
In the news: Secret Retreats partners SiteMinder, full house at ITB Asia, Firefly’s self check-in kiosksSecret Retreats partners SiteMinder to expand online presenceSingapore based Secret Retreats has begun using the fully integrated solution, Room Distribution Exchange (RDX) powered by global o [...]
Indonesia’s travel industry on a roll
Local brands, local payment options and a greater inventory have propelled Indonesia’s tourism landscape to grow at breakneck speed according to an industry snapshot by travel metasearch site, Wego.This trend is reflected in the growing number of Indonesian travel businesses partnering with Wego [...]
Flocations beefs up to take meta-search battle into a new area
Along with its pivot to becoming a meta-search for travel packages,Flocations is hoping that its appointment of a heavyweight board of directors will help it get the traction it requires to scale.This week, the Singapore-based start-up which started life as a meta-search for air fares, using a cool [...]
SOTA.travel expands in bid to build marketplace for packages
Malaysia-based SOTA.travel is scaling its content to cover more countries in the region – namely Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar – as it continues on its mission to become the marketplace for travel packages across Asia.The company acts as a trading platform where travel agents can l [...]
US$17m richer, Wego aims to become top online travel brand
Timing was in Wego’s favour with the last round of fund raising – Priceline had bought Kayak for US$1.8 billion and Expedia had acquired a 61.6% stake in Trivago for 434 million Euros – and suddenly, meta search became the flavor of the month.
“It definitely helped,” said [...]
Wego closes US$17m in latest funding round
Wego.com, the leading travel search engine in Asia Pacific and Middle East, has secured US$17 million in growth capital through the completion of a Series C Preferred Share Offering.The investment round was led by Crescent Point with contributions from Victoria Capital and existing shareholder Tiger [...]
