Have vaccination, will travel: Rising confidence among vaccinated people to go on vacations, study finds
GLOBAL vaccine rollouts are driving increasing demand for summer vacations, with vaccinated travellers more likely to stay longer and spend more on their trips than their unvaccinated counterparts, reveals a new research paper by TripAdvisor.
The report, A Shot in The Arm for Travel? Examining t [...]
Americans are off and cruising, new cruisers hop onboard in Asia
GIVEN the timeless, borderless virtual world we live in these days (ironic in itself I know), I tuned into the Expedia Cruises 2021 Virtual Conference, which set sail around 11.30pm SG time on Tuesday. I was curious to find out what was happening on the other side of the ocean – are people really [...]
How Covid has led a centuries-old heritage site to digitalise operations and rethink distribution
THE Borobudur Temple Compounds, located in the southern part of the Central Java, is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world and one of Indonesia’s most visited sites attracting about five million visitors yearly BC (before Covid) – 90% of whom were domestic tourists, 10% internatio [...]
Expedia Cruises looks to tech in push to be top agency in the sector
EXPEDIA Cruises, a full-service leisure travel agency that is part of Expedia Group, is boosting its focus on technology as it aims to provide an omnichannel strategy that can meet the needs of all travelers.
Company executives shared highlights of its
efforts during the opening day of the Exped [...]
The Wrap: Vietjet and Malindo Air pilot IATA Travel Pass, Sabre partners with health risk management platform GOPASS, and more …
THE
Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and an
update on how businesses in these sectors are adapting and resetting as they
prepare for post-pandemic travel.
VietJet, Malindo Air join IATA Travel Pass trial
Vietjet will trial IATA Travel Pass on its internation [...]
Leisure travel leads recovery; business travel may soon follow: Sabre
DESPITE new surges of Covid-19 in APAC, a new industry report by Sabre Hospitality Solutions suggests traveller confidence is returning and highlights strategic themes for hoteliers to capture returning travellers.
The recovery of travel
Bookings with ultra-short windows (<7 days) decline [...]
RedDoorz goes up the value chain with fourth brand, Sunerra
AS it chases scale and its ambition to be South-east Asia’s largest hospitality company, Singapore-based RedDoorz yesterday launched a new mid-scale brand, Sunerra Hotels, pitched at the three stars and above market.
This is the fourth brand in its stable as it attempts to climb up the value c [...]
April travel demand a tale of two markets: Domestic recovery and international stagnation
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that domestic travel demand improved in April 2021 compared to the prior month, although it remained well below pre-pandemic levels while recovery in international passenger travel continued to be stalled in the face of government-imposed [...]
Thorsen: Covid could produce well-funded corporate travel startups to go after long-term opportunity
TRAVEL tech evangelist Johnny Thorsen, who has his own vision of a “Traveltopia”, is watching to see if Covid will give the industry a new generation of well-funded startups “that are able to go after the long term opportunity, and really become a threat to the established environment”.
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The Wrap: New Covid travel restrictions tool for the travel trade, reduced operations by Malaysia Airlines due to lockdown, and more …
THE
Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and an
update on how businesses in these sectors are adapting and resetting as they prepare
for post-pandemic travel.
New tool for travel trade to monitor Covid restrictions launched
The tool displays both international a [...]
