Yanolja acquires 70% of Interpark’s business division
YANOLJA, South Korea’s leading travel and leisure platform, has signed an agreement to acquire the business division of Interpark, one of the country’s earliest e-commerce marketplaces.
Both
companies signed an MOU on the acquisition of 70% of stake in Interpark’s
business division which [...]
WiT is first industry event to use Marina Bay Sands’ Virtual Meeting Place
WiT Experience Singapore 2021 will be the first industry event to use Marina Bay Sands’ newly-launched Virtual Meeting Place for the virtual component of its two-day conference next week on October 19-20.
In the works: WiT's new virtual home, built on the Virtual Meeting Place, will be reveale [...]
Living the life of Riley in Cornwall
BeMyGuest’s CTO on living with Covid, remote working and building software during a pandemic
BEING in Cornwall, after not having left Singapore in more than two years, has given Ross Riley, CTO of BeMyGuest a different outlook on several things.
For one,
it’s given him a more positive ou [...]
The Wrap: Cathay Pacific’s content now available for Amadeus-connected agents, Sabre and Emirates seal new distribution deal, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of
news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors
are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
Cathay Pacific offers NDC content to Amadeus-connected travel agents
Amadeus-connected travel agents worldwide n [...]
Travel sector hopeful, Malaysians euphoric, as country resumes interstate and international travel
The move is to revive Malaysia’s ailing domestic tourism sector and prepare the nation to live in an endemic phase.
“Hopeful” and “euphoric” best describe the feelings of the players in Malaysia’s travel sector and Malaysians on the lifting of domestic travel restriction starting Oct [...]
“It’s no secret B2B sales are often relationship-based,” says Vouch’s Ling on first business trip since pandemic
Expansion in Europe on back of $1.1m raise
IT is fitting that Joseph Ling’s first trip abroad in the last 20 months was to London where the Singapore-based founder and CEO of Vouch is not only marking his US$1.1 million seed round but also the expansion of his chatbot-based concierge solution [...]
New VTLs welcomed, but hopes are for “achingly slow” reopening to be speeded up and simplified
Time for Singapore to scrap quarantine for all vaccinated travellers, says Wego's Veitch
FOR travel executives based in Singapore, the first significant reopening of its borders announced over the weekend couldn’t have come sooner and while they welcomed it, the general sentiment is it needs t [...]
Covid has enabled more interesting conversations with hotel owners, says IHG’s Serena Lim
FOR Serena Lim, who’s been involved in hotel development work for the past two decades – indeed it was her first job in hospitality – one of the biggest pleasures of her work is going into uncharted territory and scoping out feasibility and development opportunities for new builds in remote d [...]
“A roller coaster ride in which we puked couple of times”
Otherwise, Tribe’s Jason Loe on silver linings to pandemic
SINGAPORE experience curator, Tribe, has stood out amid the pandemic as being creative and resourceful. Its Chinatown Murders tour won it Outstanding Tour Experience 2021. At times though, we are sure the pandemic must have brought its [...]
TechSembly now wants to focus on hospitality. Here’s why.
BUOYED by the success it’s seen with its first hotel client, The Peninsula Hotels, TechSembly, an e-commerce platform that builds local storefronts for businesses, is taking the plunge to focus on the hospitality sector.
CEO and co-founder, Amy Read, first met executives from the Hong Kong-ba [...]
