ALIS goes live in Los Angeles, 1,800 gather to talk hospitality and investment
THE biggest hospitality industry conference in the US went back to live this week when the 20th annual Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) opened at the JW Marriott L.A. Live and Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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estimated 1,800 gathered at the hotel investment conference, produced [...]
BeMyGuest introduces web-based point of sale system for offline transactions
SINGAPORE’S BeMyGuest has developed Xplore WebPOS, a web-based point of sale (POS) system, for offline transactions.
The online specialist said the software module, the company’s first, is designed for activity operators to sell faster over the counter. It has been created specifically for t [...]
D’EDGE points to revolution in hotel distribution as direct takes hold
A REVOLUTION is taking place in hotel distribution with a reshuffling of the cards between different players and different sales channels, according to a new White Paper "Hotel Distribution and the Pandemic: The Travel Chessboard” from D-EDGE.
The paper studies the evolution of hotels' online [...]
What Yanolja intends to do with its new $1.7b funding
No plans for consumer superapp outside South Korea, focus is on building next-gen travel platform “beyond OTA”, says CEO Jongyoon Kim
WHEN news broke of SoftBank Vision Fund’s US$1.7b investment in Yanolja last week staff of the South Korean travel unicorn were working from home due to tig [...]
Thrust Carbon finds sweet spot in corporate travel programmes
EVERY startup needs to find its product-market-fit moment and it appears that for Thrust Carbon, which came out of an IATA hackathon in 2019, its time has arrived.
According to Glenn Thorsen, director of partnerships, Thrust Carbon started out as an offset API that plugged into airline checkout [...]
Fintech companies targeting the next billion users are living a pipe dream. Here’s why
This article was originally published by Saurya Simha Velagapudi in e27
THE future belongs to those who keep their feet firmly planted on the ground. This also applies to fintech companies.
Before we get into fintech companies, let us begin this article by taking a quick history lesson.
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“Animal spirits” keeping travel alive, Phuket Sandbox making history
LET'S face it, there’s just no killing the human desire to travel. Look at all the conditions around travel these days and all the news about rising infections, and you’d be surprised there are still people travelling – people finding ways to get around the restrictions.
It’s amazing to [...]
Travellers support mask-wearing as part of onboard safety, but frustrated with Covid rules and requirements
THE wearing of masks has been a bone of contention in the time of coronavirus, but most air travellers support mask-wearing, believing it is part of onboard safety.
However, a majority are frustrated with the “hassle factor” around Covid-19 protocols, including confusion and uncertainty abou [...]
Tripadvisor Plus on the move, signs three hotel groups, four connectivity partners
HOT on the heels of its signing three hotel groups to its Tripadvisor Plus subscription programme, Tripadvisor, now calling itself “the world’s largest travel guidance platform”, announced four new connectivity partnerships that it says will enable thousands of hotels to participate for the f [...]
WiT Startup Pitch 2021 is back, with $250,000 worth of AWS credits and support
WiT’s annual Startup Pitch is back, bolstered by the continuing collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, for the fourth year running.
AWS will provide over US$250,000 worth of AWS credits and technical support towards WiT Startu [...]
