Open road ahead as each OTA takes different bet on the future
“Nothing guaranteed, everything possible” is sentiment of the day
WHEN things have gone full circle, it can look like they’ve stayed still, but at the WiT Travel Roadshow Episode 4, four travel players tell us they’ve been very busy indeed, making bold bets for the future while honourin [...]
AirAsia acquires Gojek’s Thai operations in all-share deal
Gojek to increase investment in its Vietnam and Singapore operations in realigned strategy, acquires stake in airasia Super App
AIRASIA is revving up the expansion of its superapp footprint in ASEAN with the acquisition of Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek’s business in Thailand. [...]
A hotel giant talks sharing, caring and loving Asia
From selling groceries in Santo Domingo to CapitaLand in Singapore, Miguel Ko has had a remarkable journey to the top
IT was a love affair that started in 1979, and even though he left hospitality per se in 2012, after departing from Starwood, Miguel Ko always kept his ties with the industry. Th [...]
Co-ownership of guests, laser focus on high value experiences: Martha Waslen on the DayAway difference
WHEN we spoke to DayAway founder Martha Waslen in April, the startup had just closed a successful seed funding round and brought onboard its only other employee. Since then, the team has grown to 25 members (a mix of employees and contractors) and expects to close a Series A capital raise by the en [...]
The Wrap: TripAdvisor unveils new app, Travelport inks deal with Emirates on surcharge-free content, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the
travel and technology industries, and an update on how businesses in these
sectors are adapting and resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
Tripadvisor unveils new app, rolls out digital campaign as travel rebounds
TripAdvisor's new app aims [...]
Travel trends – Maldives, Phuket, Bali
A QUICK grab of the trends Sojern is seeing in search for Maldives, Phuket and Bali, up to July 5, 2021. (All data from Sojern)
MaldivesThe Maldives is welcoming Indian tourists again and some South Asian countries from July 15. Trends show: • Hotel search demand in April and May is slightly [...]
Travel is back in the US – families hitting the road, cities will make comeback
IN his “Letter From America” delivered at WiT Travel Roadshow, Episode 4, Hari Nair, global senior vice president, account management at Expedia Group, shared five insights that are fuelling hopes of a robust travel recovery.
First,
the initiatives to reduce the spread of Covid-19 are fuell [...]
Thank you, Covid. Ling can Vouch for the fact that in crisis, an opportunity
Chatbots are “an entry point towards constructing a customer journey”, says entrepreneur who found his footing in travel after two failures
TWO failures later, former government scholar-turned-entrepreneur Joseph Ling may have finally found his footing with Vouch, “the app-less hotel [...]
Study: One-fifth of countries have returned to pre-pandemic levels for domestic flight bookings
WHILE global travel recovery is resuming at a gradual pace an uptick in global fuel spend has seen a “strong surge” in ground travel in markets including countries in Asia Pacific like Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong.
A new study by Mastercard, Recovery Insights: Ready f [...]
This plane is just right; Scoot looking for Goldilocks Zone on the flight path to recover
AS it waits in the wings to take off, in anticipation of borders reopening, Singapore low cost carrier Scoot is clearly convinced that its new aircraft, the A321neo, will hit the sweet spot in its flight path to recovery.
On Monday, CEO Campbell Wilson held a virtual media briefing to
announce [...]
