Yanolja Cloud invests in PMS platform InnKey to accelerate its global hospitality solution business
AI-based SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company, Yanolja Cloud has invested in InnKey Infosystems Pvt. Ltd, a provider of cloud-based enterprise PMS platform for premium hotels and chains, to accelerate its global hospitality solution business.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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As travel returns, more transparency needed for consumers to make sustainable choices
More than 68m travellers have opted for Skyscanner’s “Greener Choice”; Travalyst coalition working on standardised score
FRESH from attending his first physical airline conference, the CAPA Aviation Summit in Manchester, since the pandemic, Hugh Aitken, vice president of flights of Skyscanner [...]
Trip.com Group releases ESG report highlighting its sustainability practices
TRIP.COM GROUP has released its 2021 annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report highlighting its sustainability practices across the business over the past year.
The report also outlines the company’s roadmap for success in 2022, with a focus on greater opportunities to put susta [...]
Resurgence of travel in APAC driven by easing of restrictions and pent-up demand
NEW research from the Mastercard Economics Institute reveals that for the first time since the pandemic global leisure and business flight bookings surpassed pre-pandemic levels, while spending on cruise lines, buses and trains saw sharp improvements this year.
The Travel 2022: Trends and Transit [...]
Elizabeth Liau: Marrying travel with scent and stories
Creating a luxury niche fragrance brand around destinations not to be sniffed at
YOU could say it was her nose for travel and stories that led her to create her own luxury niche fragrance company built around her favourite places in Asia. That, and love for her mother who passed away in 2018.
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In the war for talent, travel companies up the ante
Airbnb goes full on with “live and work from anywhere”, Klook launches workation scheme
FIRST it was Airbnb who declared that its employees can now “live and work anywhere”, offering these options – work from home or office, move anywhere in the country you work in without any change in c [...]
Japan, China remain big gaps in APAC’s travel rebound
Amid Japan’s tentative reopening, Indonesia’s removal of tests, IATA’s Walsh calls for acceleration of recovery
THE two big gaps in Asia Pacific’s aviation recovery are China and Japan, noted Willie Walsh, IATA’s director general, in his keynote address at the Changi Aviation Summit thi [...]
Airbnb enables “split stays” to ease inventory woes
IN what has become a familiar cadence of biannual comprehensive updates, Airbnb is releasing the newest version of its platform, described as “the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade.”
In 2021, Airbnb also released widespread revisions in May and again in November.
One of the most interes [...]
The Wrap: Klook and KAYAK expanded partnership, Sabre’s acquisition of Nuvola, Tourism Malaysia-Emirates MOC
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology sector – new partnerships, product launches, aviation industry updates, innovative solutions, and more …
Klook, KAYAK expand partnership, integrate activities inventory
Travel and leisure e-commerce platform Klook and travel searc [...]
Global search volume up, improved lodging performance, new report finds
NEW data shows rising travel intent and growing traveller confidence contributed to longer search windows and improved lodging performance
The insights from the Expedia Group Media Solutions Q1 2022 Travel Trend Report are from data collected from Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East, and Afri [...]
