Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
TNS Connected Life 2016 study: Instagram and Snapchat on the rise in APAC
TNS Connected Life 2016, a recent global study surveying the online behaviours of approximately 70,000 internet users across 57 countries revealed that the use of visual social media platforms, Instagram and Snapchat, has risen sharply across APAC.
It comes as no surprise as APAC sees over a bill [...]
Why travel needs to go cross-device
This is a guest blog by Russell Young, managing director, Asia Pacific, Sojern
Strategy Analytics estimates that by 2020, there will be 33 billion (yes, billion) connected devices worldwide. This means that every man, woman and child will have 4.3 devices each. People are already searching and bo [...]
BeMyGuest partners with Yatra to tap Indian outbound market
Asian-focused travel activities/tours online booking platform, BeMyGuest, and Indian OTA Yatra.com have formed an activities and tours partnership.
With this deal Yatra.com has gone live with the integration of BeMyGuest’s API for attraction tickets, activities and tours for both its website an [...]
The Wrap: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
The weekly news roundup: Skyscanner’s new quality ratings feature, Club Carlson’s ‘Members Only Rate’, TripAdvisor’s million dollar pledge to the refugee crisis
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
Global travel search engi [...]
Momondo’s Burge on Brexit, emotion, meta and startups
Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Hugo Burge, CEO of London-based Momondo Group, to discuss, among other things, the impact of Brexit, the need for emotion and purpose in today's world of travcl, the evolution of meta and the investments he's making through HOWZAT Partners, and why it's a great time to [...]
US$40.5bil in revenue boost for 67 airlines: CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook
The new CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorksCompany (2016 edition) revealed a total of US$40.5 billion in ancillary revenue, comprising nearly 8.7% of total sales, for 67 airlines.
Europe’s carriers performed well, contributing US$11 billion.
For the survey IdeaWorksCompany res [...]
WIT 2016 will reunite online travel pioneers and reimagine the future
The 12th edition of WIT, to be held on Oct 17-19 in Singapore, will be a reunion of sorts as well as a reimagination of the future.
“Twelve years is the end of a cycle and we are taking the opportunity this year to reflect on the past as well as reimagine the future,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, fou [...]
Explore attractions and book activities seamlessly with TripAdvisor/Viator content solution
TripAdvisor and Viator (a TripAdvisor company) are collaborating to offer their travel partners and hospitality providers an enhanced attractions content solution, which combines the former’s attractions with booking options by the latter.
The travel planning and booking site said in a statemen [...]
HRS’ Ragge on Asia, corporate travel disruption and family businesses
Looking surprisingly fresh despite having been through five cities in 10 days, CEO of HRS Tobias Ragge is decidedly pumped up about what he calls “the convergence of thunderstorms” that make Asia such an exciting growth story for his second generation family business.
One, compared with Europ [...]
