Trip.com sees rise in bookings in Europe, SE Asia; app-first strategy pays off
TRIP.com, riding on the back of travel recovery in the rest of the world outside China, is reporting healthy growth in bookings in Europe and South-east Asia as well as strong app downloads, helped by its app-first strategy.
Apptopia, the app analysis firm, listed it as the 10th most downloaded [...]
Bookaway Group launches seatOS to bring ground transport online, acquires Sisorg
Determined to accelerate the digitisation of the ground transportation sector, Bookaway Group has launched ‘seatOS’, a Transport Management System developed inhouse for operators of buses, ferries and rail in its core APAC and LATAM markets, with the ultimate aim of making booking ground transpo [...]
Tripbtoz, after Series B raise, looks to expand to Singapore, San Francisco
AFTER its Series B fund raise of six billion won (about US$4.6 million) last November, Seoul-based OTA, Tripbtoz, is planning to take its video-based travel app outside South Korea. To date, the startup, founded in 2017 by former Expedian Jiha Jung, has raised 10.5 billion won (about US$8 million).
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No Series B clinched yet, but founders of HalalBooking undeterred in goal to reach $1b target
“Being largely self-funded forces you to make tough choices”
TO raise venture capital or not to – that’s the question the two co-founders of HalalBooking, the UK-based search and booking website for halal-friendly travel, have wrestled with at various points of their eight-year startup jour [...]
VIDEO: Atlas wants to help travelers discover the world – affordably
Travel serves as a mechanism to bring the world together. At its most basic, it gets someone from point A to point B, without any bells and whistles.
A simple air ticket – minus upsells or add-ons – is also often the cheapest, but for consumers, an affordable fare can be difficult to find.
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The Wrap: More NDC content, more car and train, more connectivity, let’s go Mongolia
Sabre offers NDC content from Qatar
Sabre Corporation has successfully integrated IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) content from Qatar Airways (QR) to its global distribution system (GDS). After a pilot phase with agency customers in Australia and Sweden, the offers of Qatar’s flag carrier [...]
How going off the beaten path helped Ariane Gorin rise to the top at Expedia
President of Expedia For Business on her belief in B2B, secret sauce to resilience and staying robust in APAC
Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Ariane Gorin on the sidelines of Phocuswright Europe in Amsterdam where they have a wide-ranging conversation covering her rise up the corporate ladder, her [...]
Can’t bear to leave your pets alone while travelling? Find a house sitter
Marketplace for “holiday pet sitting” raises $10m to spread the love, alpacas included
IMAGINE you’re leaving for a holiday and you don’t know what to do with your pets – be they lizards, snakes, dogs, cats, goats or even alpacas? You’d rather not leave them at a boarding place (who kno [...]
Tiqets expands distribution with Trip.com Group integration
Travelers using Trip.com Group’s brands, including Trip.com, Ctrip and Skyscanner, can now book entry directly in those platforms at more than 4,000 museums and attractions around the world through an integration with Tiqets.
Tiqets founder and president Luuc Elzinga says the company [...]
Around Asia In One Hour: Talking wallets, mobile videos and open-ness to weed
FROM fintech to e-commerce, fuel prices and open-ness to weed, much has fast forwarded in the time travel stood still in Asia, a region that accounts for close to 60% of the world’s population, and where the biggest market, China, remains close and another major market, Japan, is still not fully o [...]
