The Wrap: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, says GBT
News Roundup: Amex GBT’s Green Travel Whitepaper on sustainable business travel, Trip.com car rentals on KAYAK platform in APAC, India-based Vistara's extension of partnership with Amadeus
Environment: Businesses aware of need for greener travel but majority yet to adopt best practices, [...]
Are you happy and dissatisfied? If so, Steve Hafner wants you and it’s why he’s still there
If there’s one question Steve Hafner, co-founder and CEO of KAYAK, gets asked a lot, it is “Why are you still here?”
After all, he and co-founder Paul English founded their meta-search business in 2004 and sold it for $1.8 billion in 2012. And on the surface, Hafner doesn't seem to be the [...]
Sojern offers insights to booking and search trends of travellers for more targeted marketing
Australians and New Zealanders will be searching and booking in January for travel during Easter and even for the winter next year reveals Sojern, and urges travel marketers to have campaigns running by 15 December in order to take full advantage of this spike.
This marketing tip is one of sever [...]
Solo travel on the rise, driven by desire to have “me time”: Klook study
Travel trends have seen many changes, and in the last few years more and more people are embracing solo travel as they want uninterrupted "me time” or to reward themselves.
These are some the findings in the ‘Solo Travel’ study commissioned by travel activities and services booking platfo [...]
Letter from Fort Lauderdale: Time shifting as search chokes, funds bloat and brands battle for supremacy in next age of tech
As I wait for the first of three flights that will bring me home from Fort Lauderdale to Singapore via Houston and San Francisco, I have downloaded the Timeshifter jetlag app, one of the startups that presented at the Phocuswright conference. It’s relatively easy to set up, I just hope it works b [...]
Exosonic wants the airline industry to boom through supersonic travel
It’s hard to catch the attention of an audience confronted with 24 back-to-back startup and product pitches, but Exosonic managed to do just that. At The Phocuswright Conference Summit, Norris Tie, CEO of Exosonic wowed attendees with his vision of developing a fleet of supersonic passenger aircr [...]
The Wrap: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel platform BlackBook
News Roundup: Million+ hotel listings and trip planning on new integrated travel platform BlackBook, Wirecard’s partnership with China’s Yeepay to “internationalise” payments, Grab’s extension of rides to Japan and the Middle East
Hospitality: Book rooms and plan trips on new travel pl [...]
Travelstart launches online bus booking platform
Travelstart.co.za has launched a new online bus booking platform.
The platform,
available at bus.travelstart.co.za,
will help customers save time and money by comparing bus tickets from competing
companies and serving the cheapest fare for a return or one-way route within
South Africa, or [...]
How Trip.com intends to execute its way to becoming the top travel brand in Asia in three years
The message is loud and clear – Trip.com Group wants to have the leading international travel brand in Asia in three years and to be the leading international travel brand in the world by 2025.
Those ambitions were declared by chairman James Liang at its 20th anniversary celebrations and the [...]
Four startups nab top prizes at The Phocuswright Conference Summit
Over 20 startups pitched live at The Phocuswright Conference Summit, spanning travel categories that included hotel technology, corporate travel, chat and voice, SaaS/PaaS, luggage storage, air, in-destination services, and booking, vying for a range of prizes.
Of them included the Phocuswright [...]
