The Wrap: APAC tourism boards are most online ready for Muslim travellers, study reveals
News Roundup: A report looking at how online ready national tourism organisations are to meet the requirements of the growing Muslim travel market, Travelport winning the bid for new contract with Webjet, Naumi Hotels acquiring another property in New Zealand, Radisson Hotel Group’s launch of new [...]
EasyParcel lands US$10.6m in funding to grow its operations across ASEAN
AirAsia’s cargo and logistic arm Teleport (formerly known RedCargo Logistics) has co-invested with venture capital firm Gobi Partners, under a 50:50 arrangement, a total of US$10.6 million in Penang-based online courier platform startup, EasyParcel.
The startup raised an undisclosed amount in [...]
Jayride is global and now wants to be the “NDC of ride-hailing”
When asked about a group of people hovering around a high table in the hallway of Jayride’s Sydney headquarters, founder and managing director Rod Bishop explained they were doing a daily pow-wow, and they were doing it standing to “keep it short”.
Once you are privvy to Bishop’s vision map [...]
Letter from Kanazawa: Having a “kimono” moment in Japan’s New Golden Age
“Are we moving already?” We had not even put away our bags, let alone sat down and settled, when we realised the Shinkansen was already in motion. 11.35 to be exact.
We are headed to Kanazawa after an intense two days of WiT Japan & North Asia where the talk was about how tech was [...]
Travala.com: Asia more advanced than Europe in cryptocurrency adoption
Travala.com, a blockchain-based hotel booking platform headquartered in London, says his bookings show that Asia is currently “more advanced than Europe” in the adoption of cryptocurrency in the travel space.
“At the moment, cryptocurrency adoption is still in its early stages, b [...]
The Samurai swords are out in travel – Hughes calls out Google as an OTA, LINE reveals its superapp Pay power
A high-intensity Samurai “tate” swordfight opened the eighth WiT Japan & North Asia last week, leading some to draw a parallel with the growing competition in online travel. Certainly, the online share of the region’s market continues to grow but there’s no doubt that the intensity of t [...]
The Wrap: Tourism Western Australia enlists help of SIA, AirAsia to fly in more Asian travellers
News Roundup: Airlines and airport in the focus this week with the region’s two leading carriers tying up with Tourism Western Australia to fly more tourists from their individual markets to the Australian state. Meanwhile Air New Zealand joins in the global ‘war’ against single-use plastic, [...]
Former Sabre executive Greg Webb replaces Gordon Wilson as Travelport’s new CEO
Travelport has named the ex-vice chairman of Sabre Greg Webb as CEO, succeeding Gordon Wilson on August 1 as he steps down after 28 years with the company and having been its president and CEO since 201l. Webb will also join the board of directors at Travelport.
The new Travelport chief was most [...]
New Core Experience chief at TripAdvisor wants to bring empathy and human-centredness to build brand love
Coming from a non-travel background, Lindsay Nelson is keen to bring in fresh thinking and ideas to her role as president, Core Experience, TripAdvisor, a responsibility she describes as “bringing consumer empathy to TripAdvisor”.
“We are a content company, an information platform. It is [...]
The Wrap: Malaysia and Singapore airlines strengthen ties in new pact, no potential merger as speculated
News Roundup: New MoU inked between Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines and speculations of a SIA investment or a possible merger of the two airlines, BCD Travel acquiring majority ownership of Japan’s Hitachi Travel Bureau, rebranding for Thailand-based hotel management company BHMA, Agoda� [...]
