Mobile saturation in China equals rise in m-commerce
The recent release of the Chinese International Travel Monitor (CITM) 2015 from Hotels.com found that online, and in particular mobile, bookings have spiked in the last year. Half of all outbound Chinese travellers used apps on their smartphones to plan and book trips on the site, up from just 17% t [...]
The Millennial Traveller: M-commerce on the rise, has mobile made it too easy for our generation?
MasterCard’s latest Mobile Shopping Survey reveals that making purchases via mobile phones is on the rise. More interestingly, however, is how the findings of the study, conducted in October to December of last year in 14 countries including Singapore, Thailand, China, Japan, Australia, Korea, Mal [...]
Sabre study paints a future of hotel booking that is contextual, intimate and instant
Okay so my survey was not scientific in any way. I merely asked the question on my Facebook status, “If I were to say the words “future of hotel booking”, what words come to mind?”I wanted to get feel of what my network, biased towards frequent travellers, thought about the subject – and w [...]
Wego reports rise in Middle East travellers taking quick breaks, mobile leads in searches
Middle East travellers are making more last minute, quick break, travel decisions during Ramadan and Eid, revealed travel search site Wego, which has built up a strong presence in the region. “This year, last minute travel searches jumped significantly for the period leading up to Ramadan,” com [...]
The Wrap: Journeyful takes hotel booking mobile with new app
In the news: This week we introduce new products from three hospitallity players - Journeyful’s mobile app, Travelport’s business intelligence product for travel agencies, TripAdvisor’s Review Express’s extension
Journeyful takes hotel booking mobile with new app
Singapore based tr [...]
HotelQuickly enters South Korea with redesigned app
In launching its app in South Korea today, its 15th country, last minute booking app HotelQuickly took its time to make sure it got it right in Asia’s most mobile market.CEO Tomas Laboutka said, “We didn’t want to rush to Korea just to be there. We wanted to really learn as much as possible ab [...]
What frustrates you most on “day of travel”? Study sheds light and guides new MTT app
Mobile Travel Technologies has conducted a study on “the day of travel” frustrations – what causes the most stress as travellers prepare for their flight, get to the airport, go through airport procedures and navigate airport terminals – and used the findings to develop a mobile product, Con [...]
The Wrap: LagiSatu goes mobile with new app for booking hotels on the go
In the news: New mobile app for LagiSatu, TripAdvisor’s content integrated with CNN, Dorsett's online presence enhanced with Lenardo Technology LagiSatu goes mobile with new app for booking hotels on the goKuala Lumpur-based hotel metasearch website LagiSatu.com, which will mark its second birthda [...]
SIA picks MTT as mobile partner; 2015 the year of mobile payments, tips Samuels
With mobile driving change in travel at every level, Singapore Airlines has appointed Mobile Travel Technologies Ltd. (MTT) as its strategic mobile partner to re-launch the airline’s mobile apps.The goal is to “bring fresh, cutting edge mobile services to its customers and to collaborate on a dy [...]
AdNear or Far: How personal do we want it to get?
Whenever we find ourselves killing time by playing around with the apps on our phone, browsing the shops or even doing both simultaneously, most of us are likely to come across an advertisement or two.As most of us will have already noticed, these advertisements seem increasingly geared to and focus [...]
