IATA Travel Pass, set for March launch, seeks to give governments confidence to re-open borders
With APAC air travel at 5% of 2019 levels, need for “globally accepted framework” is acute.
THE IATA Travel Pass, currently in pilot phase with Singapore Airlines, IAG Group, Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways, and targeted for launch by March, will hopefully give confidence to governments [...]
The Wrap: Singapore Airlines pilots pre-departure testing, Skyscanner appoints new CEO, 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 businesses adapt and reset to meet challenges in the era of
coronavirus.
Singapore Airlines trials pre-departure Covid testing in partnership with Collinson
Travellers [...]
Covid hurries payments sector into contactless space, but travel industry needs to resolve “high and unclear fees”
COVID-19 has accelerated a long-term trend away from physical cash payments – some 84% of respondents confirmed they now pay with non-cash methods like contactless or mobile payments when travelling, according to the Amadeus Travel Payments Guide 2020, a new study examining traveller payment tren [...]
Tourplus, armed with $1m fund raise, moves from transactions to content to survive Covid
Rickson Goh (centre) and his team: Sticking together through Covid. Goh said there has been no layoffs but the team agreed on pay cuts and unpaid leave to get through this period.
Malaysia-based Tourplus, which matches travellers with driver/guides and personalized itineraries, was on the road t [...]
In age of scarcity, Traveloka goes from “hunting” to “harvesting” in its marketing rethink
Even though
product has taken centre stage during Covid-19, Traveloka’s Christian Suwarna
believes that marketing is also having its breakout moment in terms of how the
Indonesian travel unicorn is rethinking its marketing strategy.
With limited funds to spend, the chief marketing offic [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Survey: 60% of Asian travellers still plan to travel in 2020, but travel companies should not wait for return to pre-Covid norms
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As COVID-19 kee [...]
WiT Community Blog: Simon Akeroyd on ‘Wearables: the next travel tech frontier?’
This a contribution from Simon Akeroyd, VP corporate strategy & business development (pictured below), Amadeus
Image credit: Amadeus
In just a few short years since the launch of the Apple Watch in 2015, wearable technology has gone from niche applications to being everywhere, c [...]
As travel awakens from its coma across Asia, is it time to save ourselves?
Four-day work week, travel deals for travel employees, targeting the young, new and exciting road trip itineraries – what other ideas do you have for nourishing those fragile green shoots we are seeing, from Japan to China, Australia and Vietnam?
This morning, on my regular walk, I saw a rainb [...]
