THack@WIT – developers, come and show what you’re made of in Singapore
Tnooz’s Thack roadshow for 2012 continues – making its final stop of the year in Singapore during the annual WebinTravel (WiT) Conference from 15-17 October.Can you create something amazing using travel APIs in just over a week? But can you also do it alongside some of the smartest developers [...]
Technology makes remote journeys more accessible, but less unplugged
Uttara Sarkar Crees runs journeys that are as unplugged as they come. Her company, Gyalthang Eco Travel, takes people to remote regions of the Tibetan Plateau and places that are off the beaten track. She talks to WIT about how technology is changing traveller behaviour and how a boutique agency l [...]
Airports embracing IT for better passenger experience
The world’s airports are turning to mobile apps, social media and intelligent technologies including geolocation services to enhance passengers’ experience, according to the SITA Airport IT Trends Survey.The 9th annual survey by SITA, carried out in partnership with Airports Council Internatio [...]
Skyscanner signs with Baidu, opens Beijing office
Skyscanner, the leading global travel search site, has forged a partnership with China’s number one search engine, Baidu, which controls 80% of the country's online search market.Baidu has chosen Skyscanner as its partner for international flight search. Baidu also has an existing partnership wi [...]
Google’s beating OTAs at their game; Tingo’s challenging yield management
Following the proven success of its partnerships with Google’s Hotel Finder andRoom Key, hotel central reservation system (CRS) vendor Trust International is looking for similar opportunities to leverage on the proliferation of online booking channels for its clients.Trust’s managing directo [...]
Customer of the future – in control, locally-connected and needs-based
The personalization of technology and travel is creating a customer who wants to be in control and who wants to be locally-connected wherever they are, and their travel patterns will soon be need-based rather than destination-oriented.This was the key message made by the four panelists at a Singapo [...]
Indonesians turning to the Internet to book travel
Indonesians are slowly but surely turning to the Internet to do their shopping, especially for travel, as they find it convenient and saves them time and money.According to the latest data trails of users of metasearch site, Wego Indonesia, Indonesians are making very different choices for their L [...]
Backed by AirAsia Expedia, backick.com takes hotel booking social
A new website, backed by AirAsia Expedia, is being touted as the world's first hotel booking site where friends help pay for each other's travel. Conceptualised in Singapore and launched across 11 Asia Pacific countries, backick.com is, as its developers put it, the ‘first-of-its-kind online v [...]
GDSs to bet on the future at Airline Cloud9 as online travel soars
Airlines and GDSs have always had a love-hate relationship, much like parents and their children, we suppose. They created them (the GDSs) and now that their “children” have grown up to be richer (definitely) and spoilt (well, maybe), tension has crept into the relationship.In some cases, tensi [...]
New AsiaRooms index shows region leads in online hotel bookings
Asia leads in online usage for hotel bookings with cost savings ranking lower on priorities compared to other markets, according to the new AsiaRooms.com Traveller Confidence Index (TCI).The survey, commissioned by AsiaRooms.com and in partnership with research firm VisionOne UK, shows Asia had t [...]
