Booking.com rolls out travel sustainable badge for the hospitality industry
BOOKING.COM has launched a Travel Sustainable badge for accommodation implementing sustainable practices that "meet the requisite impact threshold for their destination".
According to Booking.com, the badge is the "first of its kind" in the hospitality industry and is applicable to all kinds of [...]
Aerial views: How brands can cater to a new breed of traveller as borders reopen
This article is written by Cumarran Kaliyaperumal, Analytical Lead, Travel, Google, and Hermione Joye, Sector Lead, APAC Travel, Google
THE travel industry is kicking into
gear. Border and quarantine restrictions are easing up with increasing
vaccination rates, and people are ready to travel eve [...]
Etraveli’s B2B strategy pays off as it gets acquired by Booking Holdings for 1.6b Euros
IT was a deal waiting to happen, observers say of the acquisition of Etravel Group by Booking Holdings for 1.63 billion Euros announced this week.
The two companies had been in partnership the last couple of years with the Sweden-based Etraveli Group powering Booking Holdings' entry and [...]
Letter from Ohio: Rock & roll, small towns and apple pie
CLEVELAND, Ohio, may not be the most obvious destination for a first holiday in 20 months, but it certainly yields the most unexpected discoveries. And perhaps this could be the way post-pandemic travel eventually pans out – that we seek out the not-so-obvious to truly enjoy the serendipity and a [...]
Savouring the now, friendcations, active ecotourism: Trends shaping the travel space in 2022
Amadeus looks into the crystal ball to see what the travel industry can expect for next year.
AFTER almost two years of being grounded people are keen to travel again as borders in many countries reopen to the fully vaccinated, leading to a rise in searches and bookings.
The Amadeus 2022 Tra [...]
RedDoorz CEO on SEA potential, performance marketing lessons and growing up fast
Digitisation accelerated among consumers as well as independent hotel owners
YEOH Siew Hoon interviewed Amit Saberwal, CEO of RedDoorz, Southeast Asia's largest technology-driven hotel management & booking platform at the Phocuswright Conference 2021, where they spoke about the breakout reg [...]
Travelstart and MakeMyTrip: Charting a post-pandemic future
TWO online travel pioneers – Travelstart founded in 1999 in Africa and MakeMyTrip founded in India in 2000 – were at WiT Experience Singapore to share how they are facing the future as they emerge from the dust of Covid.
In a wide-ranging conversation, both companies talked about new service [...]
A change in approach to how travel should tackle pandemics is necessary: Prof Tambyah
THE travel community should take a more active role in overcoming the pandemic – not in the sense of eradicating it, but to figure out how we can more quickly normalise life and travel with it.
Professor Paul Tambyah: “This pandemic has battered the travel industry, and it is not going to be [...]
Inspired by French Riviera, powered by Sweden, taking root in Cape Town
“Magic happens when there is diversity”: Stephan Ekbergh on Innovation City Cape Town
TRAVEL entrepreneur and CEO of Travelstart, Stephan Ekbergh, is embarking on a new project, Innovation City, to transform his adopted home of Cape Town into a thriving, diverse ecosystem of digital talent, [...]
Sponsored Post: Travel industry maintains momentum
THE third quarter of 2021 saw sustained
momentum for the travel industry, even if the Covid-19 Delta variant and other
global factors impacted performance slightly.
For instance, in Asia Pacific (APAC) the reopening of Singapore - and Australia’s trial vaccine passport programme with select c [...]
