The Millennial Traveller: Not about age but all about being mobile
The Millennial 20/20 Summit Singapore saw the venue packed with fresh, young talent and industry veterans alike, asking the age (not very) old question – what do millennials want?
With Accenture predicting millennials in Asia will have US$6 trillion in disposable income by 2020, it comes as no [...]
Travel Startups Incubator acquires stake in B2B communications app Tineri
Travel Startups Incubator (TSI) has added B2B mobile communications app Tineri as it’s newest portfolio company with the acquisiton of an equity stake for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in July this year, Tineri is headquartered in Bangkok and incorporated in Singapore. It describes itself as [...]
US$30,000 seed funding from Travelport Labs awaits WIT Startup Pitch 2016 winner this October
The winner of the WIT Startup Pitch competition, held in conjunction with the WIT 2016 Conference in Singapore this October, will win a place in the Travelport Labs Accelerator programme, which comes with seed funding of US$30,000.
Travelport Labs Accelerator, which is sponsoring this year’ [...]
The Wrap: Travel platform Touristly scores investment from Tune Labs
The weekly news roundup: Tune Labs’ investment in Touristly, Amadeus and Zingle partners in messaging technology, Mantra’s Pokémon Go-friendly hotels in Australia
STARTUP: Travel platform Touristly scores investment from Tune Labs
Kuala Lumpur-based startup incubator and accelerator T [...]
Nok Air’s Patee on the emotion of social media and Pokemon Go
As far as Patee Sarasin, CEO of Nok Air, is concerned, social is the biggest phenomenon influencing the airline industry.
“Mobile is just a technology but social is about emotions, and it’s harder to manage emotions,” said the Bangkok-based executive who set up the low cost airline 12 years [...]
WIT Startup: Seatfrog joins Amadeus Next to offer mobile-only ancillary technology
Australian travel startup Seatfrog has joined Amadeus Next, as it aims to revolutionise mobile airline ancillaries by allowing travellers to upgrade their seat in the 48-hour window prior to take-off and right up until the time of departure.
Seatfrog’s mobile platform allows travellers to trans [...]
Letter from Australia: Pokemon On The Go
Pokemon Go, the augmented reality game where players collect in-game items and catch Pokemon characters or monsters, could either be the best thing to happen to gamers and travellers or the biggest social disaster waiting to happen.
I found myself having near collisions with people in Melbourne. [...]
The World’s Most Unique Digital Travel Awards Returns
Web In Travel’s WITovation Awards, which recognise excellence in digital marketing and user experience in travel, returns with the WIT Conference (Singapore, Oct 17-19).
Presented by Sojern, this year’s awards are open to nominations that cover marketing and development efforts in the last 12 [...]
Skyscanner adds hotels and car hire to its mobile app
UK-based metasearch engine Skyscanner has integrated its standalone hotel and car rental mobile apps into its existing flight app on Android and iOS to make booking travel easier for travellers.
Hotels and car hire are now automatically synchronised with flights search so travellers do not have t [...]
The Wrap: Revenue from add-on services makes 10 airlines “billionaires”
The weekly news roundup: IdeaWorksCompany airline ancillary ancillary revenue review, 2016 Global Flight Price Ranking from Rome2rio, Apple Pay for Klook users
AVIATION: Revenue from add-on services makes 10 airlines “billionaires”
Ancillary revenue for airlines have doubled between 2 [...]
