Booking Holdings invests in Korean hotel booking startup Yanolja, Asia’s latest travel unicorn
Korean hotel platform, Yanolja, has raised US$180 million in Series D funding led by Booking Holdings and Singapore sovereign wealth fund, GIC. The South Korea-based hotel booking website has now secured a total of $242 million in funding.
This latest round boosts Yanolja’s total
valuation to [...]
Customisation and education needed to drive traveller adoption of online booking tool
The rise in the adoption of online booking shows a growing trend among many business travellers to book flights, accommodations, transfers and other travel services through an easy-to-use online portal, with online booking tools (OBTs), phone and email as the most widely used methods.
While 92% [...]
Amadeus invests in tech startup Volantio, forms partnership to help airlines optimise capacity
Volantio, a technology services company focused on increasing asset utilisation and optimise bookings for airlines and their customers, has secured an investment and a partnership from travel technology giant, Amadeus.
The Atlanta-based startup will receive funding from Amadeus’ startup invest [...]
To win in corporate travel today, you need a tech edge
FCM's chief for Asia Bertrand Saillet speaks to Yeoh Siew Hoon on how it is blending best of online and offline in Asia by investing in new tech to enhance the traveller experience and taking lessons from its parent company's retail model.
There was a time in corporate travel that when you asked [...]
BookMeBus wants to change the way locals and travellers explore Cambodia by digitising bus travel
A finalist at WiT Singapore 2018 and the winner of ‘Most Promising Travel Startup’ at the Echelon Asia Summit 2018, BookMeBus has big plans to shake up the transportation sector in Cambodia and beyond.
If BookMeBus has its way, people in
Cambodia and eventually across ASEAN, as well as trav [...]
Ctrip’s Instagram-like platform attracts more than 1M daily users
Ctrip is finding success with its strategy to create an Instagram-style content platform within its mobile app.Since its launch in December, the new “Trip Moments” product has exceeded one million daily active users, and 70% of those users are under 30 years old. In a call last week w [...]
The Wrap: Travelport offers new booking code for non-binary gender travellers
News Roundup: Taking a look at what’s happening in the travel and hotel sector – a new code for non-binary gender air travellers, dynamic hotel pricing for wholesale distribution, Melbourne Airport preparing for growth
Air Travel: Travelport offers new booking code for non-binary gende [...]
Meet the man who wants to change the way governments look at tourism in Asia
Ang Choo Pin left the world of politics and diplomacy to join travel because he saw an opportunity to make an impact in an industry that he believes is truly a force for good. Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Expedia Group’s senior director for government and corporate affairs for Asia to find out [...]
Startup Spotlight: SpareFare.net wants to help people make their money back on unused bookings
This week, WiT chats to Galena Stavreva, CEO of SpareFare.net – a startup on a mission to help people resell their unused travel reservations to online bargain hunters.
Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph.
SpareFare.net
connects people who have bought flights, [...]
LINE TRAVEL jp gets innovation boost with latest hire
LINE TRAVEL jp intends to "stir innovation in the travel and tourism industry" and "acclerate technology transformation" with its newest team member who comes from IBM with a heap of experience in the field.
Masaya Higuchi (pictured left) has joined the LINE TRAVEL jp team as chief digital offic [...]
