Travel experiences marketplace Headout lands US$12m in funding for expansion
HEADOUT has raised US$12 million in Series B financing round to expand its geographical reach and reach EBITDA profitability.
The Series B round was led by Glade Brook Capital, with participation from existing investors Version One Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, FJ Labs, 500 Startups, Haystac [...]
Asia’s two success stories, ixigo and Yanolja, pursue different paths to growth
ixigo digs deeper into India’s NBU, Yanolja fans out across the world
IF a collaboration announcement is made between ixigo and Yanolja, just remember you heard it first at the WiT Travel Roadshow Episode 6, where the CEOs of the Indian and South Korean companies joined WiT founder Yeoh Siew H [...]
The role of data and tech in transforming a destination experience: How STB is executing on its vision
WITH a background in data and gov tech, the new chief technology officer of the Singapore Tourism Board, Wong Ming Fai, is driving possibly the most ambitious of digital transformation of not only a tourism organisation but the entire travel industry ecosystem of a nation. He outlines the comprehen [...]
Q&A: The potential of decentralized digital ID in travel
This article first appeared in PhocusWire
NICK Price has spent much of his career designing and implementing technology solutions and strategies for hotels. He was CIO and CTO of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group for 12 years and then founded NetSys Technology, focused on digital enablement of hospi [...]
The Wrap: GlobalTix integrates with Google, Hana Tours strengthens partnership with Amadeus, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
GlobalTix integrates with Google for booking links
Free ticket booking links on Google Search make it easy for trave [...]
Explorer Richard Bangs embarks on new storytelling adventure with Steller
“I fold
this into the spirit of exploration”, says Mungo Park founder
REMEMBER Mungo Park, the online adventure site set up by Microsoft circa 1996 in the early days of Expedia, and which was meant to stir up the spirit of exploration in travellers? Well, the man who created it is back with [...]
Discard quest for perfection, be fast and agile: How STB is marketing Singapore in a pandemic
COVID has dealt a heavy blow to Singapore’s tourism industry, which saw
international visitor arrivals plummet by 85% in the past 18 months – from more
than 19 million to 2.7 million.
“It's been really difficult and hard,” was how Lynette Pang, assistant chief executive, marketing group [...]
Covid spawns 70m new digital consumers in South-east Asia
SINCE the start of the pandemic, 70 million people – equivalent to the entire population of the United Kingdom – have become digital consumers in South-east Asia.
Almost 8 in 10 people (78%) among South-east Asia’s population of 15-year-olds and above will be digital consumers [...]
ATTIA recommends making Digital Health Passes mainstream to accelerate travel recovery
THE Asia Travel Technology Industry Association (ATTIA) has launched a recommendation paper, The Building Blocks of Digital Health Passes (DHP), which highlights key factors to help accelerate travel recovery in Asia Pacific (APAC).
The paper stresses “the importance of a
trusted means of safe [...]
A saxophonist and a songbird walk into a bar…
NOW that might sound like the setup for a punchline, but if you were referring to musician-composer Daniel Chia, and Singapore’s own Glamour Vintage Songbird, Miss Lou, it could also be the start of their set.
The musical duo who are the co-founders of Loudandclear – a Creative Collective t [...]
