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 [...]
Travelstart launches online bus booking platform
Travelstart.co.za has launched a new online bus booking platform.
The platform,
available at bus.travelstart.co.za,
will help customers save time and money by comparing bus tickets from competing
companies and serving the cheapest fare for a return or one-way route within
South Africa, or [...]
How Trip.com intends to execute its way to becoming the top travel brand in Asia in three years
The message is loud and clear – Trip.com Group wants to have the leading international travel brand in Asia in three years and to be the leading international travel brand in the world by 2025.
Those ambitions were declared by chairman James Liang at its 20th anniversary celebrations and the [...]
Immigration, inequality, inclusion – the themes occupying America
It is interesting the amount of soul-searching that’s going on in North America, both on the political and corporate front, as I discovered on this recent trip which started in Las Vegas, continued to New York and now headed for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Phocuswright, which begins tomorrow. & [...]
AirAsia now sells flights on other airlines in digital transformation push
Malaysia’s low cost carrier AirAsia is selling flights on more than 100 other global airlines on its website and app as it transforms airasia.com into a travel and lifestyle platform and to boost revenue.
This is made possible through a strategic partnership the carrier signed with Prague-base [...]
Skyscanner starts selling flights, via mobile only
Skyscanner has now gone beyond being just a metasearch platform, announcing it will sell flights, albeit via its app and mobile web only in Australia, Singapore and the UK.
Bryan Dove, Skyscanner CEO said: “It’s not a secret that people are increasingly turning to thei [...]
Letter from Explore ’19: Persevere, respect, be mindful – and oh, get more sleep
If I had to sum up the first day of Expedia Group’s Explore ’19 conference in Las Vegas today in three words, they’d be “perseverance, respect and mindfulness”.
The morning opened with a talk by Colin O’Brady who, after nine years of having his legs burnt at a beach party in Thailand [...]
