The Wrap: ZUZU Hospitality expands to Vietnam, boosts team with new hires
News Roundup: ZUZU Hospitality spreading operations to Vietnam with new sales offices, Malaysia Airlines and Travelport broaden ties, Vistara’s leveraging Sabre technology for growth
ZUZU Hospitality expands to Vietnam, boosts team with new hires
ZUZU Hospitality expanding operations undet [...]
Preparing for life in a cookie-less world: ADARA’s Garner on building identity graph and an alternative data co-op
The first question I asked Scott Garner, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of ADARA, how he felt being in Singapore when it’s in Dorscon (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) Orange Alert, he said, “I’d be okay if it wasn’t for the people around me worrying.”
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AirAsia X offers a year’s unlimited flights for US$119 to restore confidence in travel
Airlines in the Asia Pacific region are expected to suffer US$27.8 billion revenue loss in 2020, the bulk of which would be borne by carriers registered in China with $12.8 billion lost due to the coronavirus (Covid-19), said the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
(Update: On 5 Mar [...]
Still far from attaining the holy grail of frictionless travel, but Amadeus definitely a candidate to get industry there: Ropers
Asked to put the travel industry on a scale, 10 being the attainment of the holy grail of friction-free travel, Amadeus’ new president of strategic growth businesses Stefan Ropers put it at two or three.
“We haven’t gotten very far. The future is here, but it is not equally distributed. I [...]
Dubai-based TPConnects lands investment from Flight Centre
Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is boosting its tech platform with the acquistion of a 22.47% stake in TPConnects Technologies LLC.
The terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Dubai-based TPConnects was founded in 2012 by Rajendran Vellapalath, who will continue to run the bu [...]
MMT’s Kalra aims to keep busy with product, M&A and expansion: “I’m not going anywhere”
If you think that the move of Deep Kalra from group CEO to executive chairman of MakeMyTrip marks the end of an era, he’d be the first to pooh-pooh the notion. For him, it marks the beginning of a new chapter in which he can “spend more time doing the things I wanted to do”.
“It’s a f [...]
Guest Blog: Loyalty Programs Are Growing in Popularity. Not Just With Your Customers, But With Fraudsters Too
As the international community sets their focus on mitigating the risks of the coronavirus and the impact that it will have on travel businesses and the economy at large, fraudsters are taking notice. Even with domestic and international travel at a stand-still in Asia, your customers’ dormant lo [...]
Expedia job cuts, Booking braces for “significant impact”, “winter is best time” – learn from cockroaches
I’ve been mulling over what I heard William Bao Bean of SOSV Capital say in a Techsauce Global podcast, “It is the cockroaches, the survivors, who can really take advantage of this tough environment that will build the next generation of leaders.”
Curious about cockroaches and inspire [...]
New solutions expected to help hotels tackle data
In an indication that hotels are being flummoxed by big data, a recent survey by dailypoint™ of some 4.5 million reservations across 120 hotels found that hotels had on average 2.3 profiles for their loyal guests. In other words, these hotels thought they had twice as many loyal guests as they ac [...]
The Wrap: Accor, Visa team up to introduce new payment card
News Roundup: Partnerships forged with big names in travel joining forces: Accor and Visa launching payment card, HelloGbye’s tie-up with Travelport to service TMCs, Lufthansa Group expanding cooperation with Amadeus to enhance traveller experience
Accor, Visa team up to introduce payment ca [...]
