AirAsia, Trip.com Group team up to spur revival in regional travel through sharing of assets
Two Asian travel giants, Malaysia-based AirAsia and China’s leading online travel services provider Trip.com Group, have formed a “strategic partnership” giving users access to products and services on their respective digital platforms.
Under the agreement Trip.com and AirAsia.com, the ca [...]
Southeast Asia’s ‘discovery-driven’ digital consumers set to reach 310m by end of 2020
There will be 310m digital consumers in Southeast Asia by the end of 2020, from 250m in 2018. Faster than the region's population growth is the pace of its online spend, which is projected to grow 320% between 2018 and 2025.
According to Facebook and Bain & Company's Riding the Digital Wave: [...]
WiT Startup winner IDEM Hospitality becomes part of Groups360 family
For WiT Startup Pitch 2019 winner IDEM Hospitality, the meeting with Groups360 last June was fortuitous. What started out as a partnership discussion very quickly escalated into one around acquisition when it became obvious that it was “a match made in heaven”.
IDEM
Hospitality is now Groups [...]
Let’s talk about work, remote or otherwise, and its side effects
This whole remote work thing that’s still going on in
most parts of the world is producing lots of interesting outcomes, at least in
places where remote work is an option. As Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman
of Alibaba
Group, observed at the Singapore Fintech Festival recently, “remote work [...]
Cleartrip rolls out Travel Safe and Flexifly, aims to hit sweet spot between product and commerce
Covid-19 has made developers more empathetic to commercial interests: Subramanya Sharma
If there is one positive that has come out of the biggest crisis to hit travel, it is that product has taken centrestage as online travel companies went back to their roots to build new tools and solutions, a [...]
The Wrap: Agoda introduces day use feature to South Korea hotels, Malaysia Airlines lends a hand to boost domestic tourism, and more …
The
Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep
track of developments in these sectors as the green shoots of recovery slowly
take root.
Agoda introduces flexible day use feature to hotels in South Korea
Agoda users can book a day use room on the Agoda mobi [...]
Pandemic forcing hoteliers to fast-track tech adoption and revisit distribution and marketing strategies
The travel standstill has afforded hotels and their partners a chance to revisit distribution and marketing strategies and processes which in better days have mostly operated on a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” maxim. But hotel conversations today have had to change and now largely revol [...]
Agoda joins hands with governments in Asia to assist in growing travel demand
Agoda has been partnering with government efforts in Asia to boost travel recovery. Its latest initiative taps on the Japanese Tourism Agency’s (JTA) ‘Go To’ campaign, ensuring its travellers booking domestic travel on Agoda can benefit from the “Go To” travel subsidy and enjoy savings of [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity in Crisis – Episode 19: Greg Schulze, Expedia Group – a farewell letter, as he returns to the US
On July 25, Greg Schulze, senior vice president, Expedia Group, flew back to the US after completing his four-and-a-half year stint in Singapore as the first global head to be based in Asia Pacific.
He brings
home lots of happy memories of a place he and his family have thrived in, as he
says in [...]
Milken talks vaccine, Alibaba’s Tsai talks remote work and travel; “massive digitisation of everything”
With so much bad news in travel I thought I’d tune into the Singapore Fintech Festival Global Launch event this week for a different perspective, and the most promising news came at the end from Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.
Saying things look promising and he wouldn’t be su [...]
