Loyalty program fraud sees astronomical rise, estimated losses of $1 billion per year
Loyalty program fraud has seen an astronomical rise of 89% year-on-year, and is now estimated at $1 billion each year. According to e-commerce fraud prevention agency Forter, this is predominantly driven by the amount of personally identifiable information (PII) available from increasing numbers of [...]
RedDoorz launches KoolKost to reinvent co-living in Indonesia
Following its last fund raise of US$70 million, and as had been flagged by CEO and co-founder, Amit Saberwal, RedDoorz has launched a new co-living brand, KoolKost, which it describes as “an affordable, long-term fully managed community living service that allows customers to rent rooms under fle [...]
AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes, Kamarudin step down from executive roles amid probe over Airbus bribery
AirAsia Group Bhd (AAGB) chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and executive chairman Datuk Kamarudin Meranun have relinquished their executive positions with immediate effect for two months following allegations that the airline received a US$50 million bribe from aircraft manufacturer Ai [...]
WiT Middle East Watch: Emirates to Penang, Bird buys Circ, Saudi startups get funding boost
News Roundup: Penang gets ME connection; Micromobility could see quick growth in ME with Circ acquisition; Attention please: Saudi-based startups hit investment record high
Penang gets ME connection
Photo by Getty Images
Fans of
Penang rejoice: Emirates has announced plans for a new daily [...]
Trip.com’s James Liang looks at the numbers behind the Wuhan virus in bid to “alleviate excess panic”
Trip.com’s Group’s chairman and co-founder James Liang turns his analytical eye and shares his views on the Wuhan coronavirus, and compares the toxicity of the virus with influenza in the US in the hope that “this analysis will help to alleviate excessive panic”.
James Liang speaking at [...]
Guest Blog: New Hotel Digital Lab season to begin
For the fifth consecutive year, D-EDGE Hospitality Solutions invites hoteliers to gain perspective on their Online distribution. Spearheaded by industry leaders, such as Google, Booking, Ideas, Oracle, the half-day conference covers key issues facing the industry and highlights turnkey solutions th [...]
The Wrap: Accor to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022
News Roundup: Accor’s commitment to remove single-use plastics within two years, Sabre’s global partnership with OYO Hotels & Homes, new media partner for Japan's Chubu Centrair International Airport
Environment: Accor to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022
Accor's new economy segm [...]
How a virus can bring travel to its knees, but we needn’t stay down
So what can
I write about the Wuhan coronavirus that hasn’t been written about already? How
many new cases? How many more infections? How many more countries?
What can I
write about it and its worst possible timing? That it happened during Lunar New
Year, the biggest travel season for China, [...]
Trip.com Group, in crisis mode, launches “Safeguard Cancellation Guarantee” to protect travellers
In response to the coronavirus crisis which has severely affected travel demand during the peak Lunar New Year season, Trip.com Group has launched a “Safeguard Cancellation Guarantee” initiative.
The company, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year and announced ambitious plans to e [...]
Sabre partners Accor to create the first unified technology platform for hospitality
Sabre Corporation and Accor are partnering to create the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the global hospitality industry.
Sabre intends to develop a new full-service property management capability to layer on its existing central reservation and [...]
