Get a Uber ride with the TripAdvisor app
Uber, in a move to stay ahead of competitors such as Lyft, has opened its API to all developers enabling other companies to integrate its service into third party apps.This development enables apps to pass a destination address to the Uber app, display pickup times, provide fare estimates, and acces [...]
Better quality searches, shift to online boost profit at Venture Republic
Despite the tourism crisis which descended upon Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Venture Republic, which owns Travel.jp and Hotel.jp, managed to show a doubling of profit in its second quarter financial report.CEO Kei Shibata said the continuous uptrend of traffic for Travel.jp ( [...]
Asians most attached to mobile devices while travelling
Travellers from Asia are mobile “addicts”, not willing to give up their devices while on vacation, according to the new Disconnect to Reconnect survey from Hotels.com.The study, which looks into digital holiday habits across 28 countries, found travellers from Thailand were the least prepared to [...]
Airlines must prepare for the mobile consumer revolution
Mobile technology is set to transform both airline operations and the overall traveller experience, according to a new industry report published today by Amadeus. ‘The always-connected traveller: How mobile will transform the future of air travel’ is a global report that identifies changing tra [...]
Travel search meets location based mobile gaming in Japan
At the WIT Conference last October, Kei Shibata of Japan's leading travel search site, travel.jp expressed his concern that younger Japanese were spending more time on gaming than travelling and he said one way travel companies could access this generation was to go to where they are.This week, tr [...]
Request flights on Skyscanner Facebook, Lufthansa introduces iPad app
Skyscanner has launched a new system which allows users to post a flight request onSkyscanner’s Facebook "wall" and receive a price quote and flight details within seconds.The system does not require the user to navigate away from the Skyscanner's Facebook page or install any apps; users must fi [...]
Rise of smartphone and iPad fuel demand for mobile travel content
The Frommer’s Unlimited 2011 Digital Travel Content and User Experience Consumer Survey revealed that of the 1,700 respondents in its survey, 52% said they were most likely to access travel information on their mobile devices when travelling compared to 27% in 2010.Frommer’s Unlimited, the B2B [...]
Jet Airways introduces Mobile Barcodes
Jet Airways announced that it has adopted the very latest in Quick Response (QR) mobile code technology to disseminate more information about its products and services to its guests.This initiative makes Jet Airways the first airline in India to utilize barcode technology to disseminate real time in [...]
Mobile is not a trend
At the recent PhoCusWright's online event, Truth, Myth and Pith: PhoCusWright's 2011 Travel Industry Trends, the company’s analysts revealed their picks for this year's top 10 travel trends.The 500+ attendees, representing travel companies and press, weighed in on which trends they thought wouldl [...]
News Briefs: AA saves with iPads, Vueling launches iPhone app
American Airlines iPads to save US$1.2m paAmerican Airlines will switch from paper flight charts to iPad tablets, said to save USD1.2 million per year in fuel costs due to the elimination of weight onboard.Sabre and South African Airways sign new distribution agreement South African Airways and S [...]
