The Wrap: Agoda‘s new brand campaign promises ‘Less Hassle, More Travel’
News Roundup: Agoda’s new multi-market brand campaign launched, AirAsia’s first fast food restaurant serving inflight meals, China’s airlines and airports growing investments in AI and automation, Perth Airport’s tech boost from Amadeus
Marketing: Agoda ‘s new brand campaign promises � [...]
Mystifly lets go of China, refocuses on its roots of value creation, not just competing on price
After a rough start to the year, which saw it let go the China Business Team, Mystifly is back on track doing what it does best – “being an intermediary business that creates value for its partners”, said CEO Rajeev Kumar.
“Sometimes you think maybe there’s a better way, and you say, R [...]
After a 5-year turnaround, Hedlund gets set to take Etraveli into next phase of growth
Mathias Hedlund strikes one as the kind of executive who’d do what it takes to get what he wants done. Since 2014, when he took on the reins of Etraveli Group, he has transformed the company, which had a complex, complicated history, into a major global player, powering meta and flights, and that [...]
Shopping still top activity for Chinese outbound travellers
Chinese tourists still love to shop during
their overseas trips with shopping remaining at the top of
Chinese outbound travellers’ expenditure categories, according to the ‘2019 Chinese Outbound Travel Consumption Report’.
Published by Trip.com Group and UnionPay International, the report [...]
Guest Blog: Review and outlook of online hotel distribution
As the merger of Availpro and Fastbooking, D-EDGE combines complementary expertise: technology, on the one hand, digital marketing on the other, and years of experience in the hotel industry. D-EDGE's CEO Pierre-Charles Grob (pictured left) considers the company's closeness with its 12,000 customers [...]
The Wrap: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, says GBT
News Roundup: Amex GBT’s Green Travel Whitepaper on sustainable business travel, Trip.com car rentals on KAYAK platform in APAC, India-based Vistara's extension of partnership with Amadeus
Environment: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, [...]
Are you happy and dissatisfied? If so, Steve Hafner wants you and it’s why he’s still there
If there’s one question Steve Hafner, co-founder and CEO of KAYAK, gets asked a lot, it is “Why are you still here?”
After all, he and co-founder Paul English founded their meta-search business in 2004 and sold it for $1.8 billion in 2012. And on the surface, Hafner doesn't seem to be the [...]
Solo travel on the rise, driven by desire to have “me time”: Klook study
Travel trends have seen many changes, and in the last few years more and more people are embracing solo travel as they want uninterrupted "me time” or to reward themselves.
These are some the findings in the ‘Solo Travel’ study commissioned by travel activities and services booking platfo [...]
Letter from Fort Lauderdale: Time shifting as search chokes, funds bloat and brands battle for supremacy in next age of tech
As I wait for the first of three flights that will bring me home from Fort Lauderdale to Singapore via Houston and San Francisco, I have downloaded the Timeshifter jetlag app, one of the startups that presented at the Phocuswright conference. It’s relatively easy to set up, I just hope it works b [...]
The Wrap: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel platform BlackBook
News Roundup: Million+ hotel listings and trip planning on new integrated travel platform BlackBook, Wirecard’s partnership with China’s Yeepay to “internationalise” payments, Grab’s extension of rides to Japan and the Middle East
Hospitality: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel pl [...]
