Accor, Alibaba to jointly develop initiatives for digitalisation of global tourism in tie-up
French hospitality group Accor and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba have announced a strategic partnership to develop a series of digital applications and loyalty programmes to improve the consumer and traveller experience over the next five years.
The collaboration will leverage Alibaba’s nea [...]
Travel giants Trip and TripAdvisor extend global reach through partnership
Trip.com Group Limited and TripAdvisor, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership to expand global cooperation, including a joint venture, global content agreements and a governance agreement.
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Investment Holding Ltd., a subsidiary of Trip.com Group has entered into
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The Wrap: WebBeds launches destination index in support of Hong Kong’s travel industry
News Roundup: WebBeds’ new destination performance tool launched, SITA's latest report on airlines and airports reaping benefits from IT investments, mobile app for booking tours and activities in Malaysia, ANA reducing single-use plastics from 2020
Distribution:WebBeds launches destination i [...]
A tale of three places: Bamboo, Bali and never-ending neon
Travelling straight from the private
island of Cempedak to the mass tourism island of Bali is one thing, but going
on from Bali to Shanghai the day after, well, that’s another. The contrasts are
marked but there’s a common thread that weaves through them – the story of
travel – as Yeoh Siew [...]
Omio acquires travel planning engine Rome2rio
Omio, Europe's leading booking platform for multi-modal travel has acquired Rome2rio Pty Ltd, bolstering its transportation discovery and planning capabilities and taking an important first step towards a global offering.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Rome2rio enables consumers to search and d [...]
South-east Asia a “melting pot of trends” in online travel
It’s an interesting time in the travel industry in South-east Asia.The middle class is growing very fast, 90% of the region’s 360 million internet users are connecting through mobile devices, brands already in travel are expanding their offerings and other e-commerce entities are forging partn [...]
In The Big Chair – Ross Veitch of Wego
Ross Veitch and Craig Hewett founded flight and hotel marketplace Wego in 2005 in Singapore. It has raised about $59 million and expanded beyond Southeast Asia into the Middle East, North Africa and India.
The company crossed $1 billion in gross merchandise volume in December 2018, and an IPO is [...]
The Wrap: TAT, Expedia launch global sustainable tourism initiative in collaboration with UNESCO
News Roundup: "Industry-first” global initiative in sustainable tourism launched in Thailand, Malaysia Airlines' and Singapore Airlines' wide-ranging partnership agreement, AirAsia’s enhanced mobile app, American Express Global Business Travel’s new online booking tool Neo
Environmen [...]
Twenty years on, from Ctrip to Trip: From China power to “glocal” giant
It felt like I was going to a rock concert. The night before, on a cruise on the Huangpu river, the city lights were in full blaze but one illumination stood out, the Pearl Tower lights announcing that Ctrip was turning 20 – a city paying homage to its homegrown Internet giant.
This morning, [...]
South African Tourism and Tencent team up to boost Chinese arrivals in South Africa
China’s Tencent and the South African Tourism Beijing Office (SA Tourism) have announced a new partnership geared towards increasing the number of Chinese tourist arrivals in South Africa.
The collaboration will
span over two years and aims to position South Africa as one of Chinese
travellers [...]
