SITA tackles data challenges and studies blockchain, promises to build “informed passenger journeys”
The aviation industry has been flying high in recent years, as more technological innovation is introduced, creating blueprints for promised futures of autonomous aeroplanes, high speed inflight wi-fi and the highly coveted painless airport experience.
At the SITA APAC Air Transport IT Summit tha [...]
Bokun joins TripAdvisor with its purchase by the reviews giant
TripAdvisor last week announced it has bought Bokun, an Iceland-based provider of business management technology for the tours, attractions and experiences industry.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
With this acquisition, TripAdvisor expands its offerings by providing suppliers with [...]
AccorHotels to provide personalised experiences to Chinese travellers in partnership with Ctrip
Ctrip.com International deepens its cooperation with AccorHotels in a new deal that “will greatly enhance the growing Chinese travellers’ journey globally.”
This is made possible in a memorandum of understanding the two companies inked last week, which will give the online services of China [...]
Cathay joins Skyscanner’s Direct Booking Platform
Hong Kong’s home airlines, Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon have signed on to Skyscanner’s direct booking platform, enlarging their distribution network. The new integration means that Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon become the first Hong Kong-based carriers to be able to sell tickets directly [...]
On the circle of life, scale and experience chase each other’s tails
In many ways I feel the industry is coming full circle – on one hand, you have the giants of scale talking about local experiences and community and on the other, independents and creatives talking about scale, each knowing you need the other to thrive in a digitally-driven world.
At the recent [...]
Three accidental indie travel makers, one common purpose
If there is one thing travel entrepreneurs Uttara Sarkar Crees, Andrew Dixon and Simon Wong have in common, it is that they all got into what they are doing by accident but are now following their passion and paths with purpose.
Speaking at the inaugural WIT Indie in Penang last week, the trio sh [...]
The Wrap: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
This week we look at partnerships - CarTrawler with London-based startup Splyt, and New Zealand’s Sounds Air with Sabre, Cambodia Bayon Airlines with Travelport
TRANSPORTATION: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
Travel technology provider, CarTrawler, has pu [...]
WEGOGO launches WeGold ICO to build decentralised travel platform for “fair-share travel ecosystem”
WEGOGO – a business platform on WeChat that enables global tours and activities operators and travel hosts to connect with Chinese consumers –announced its aspirations to be the world’s “first travel blockchain for aspirational travel in Asia”.
To do this, WEGOGO has expressed its inte [...]
Sabre is rolling out its next-generation travel agency desktop globally in local languages
Sabre is upgrading travel agency customers worldwide to the new Sabre Red Workspace, its point-of-sale tool for travel agencies.
The solution is now available in English, German, Spanish and Japanese. To follow are French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.
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Be socially responsible from day one, not only after you’ve made money, says KGH’s Rajan Sakya
In an industry driven by profits and KPIs, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what the world really looks like.
At WIT Seoul 2018, much of the discussion revolved around how travel businesses should be responding to international issues from geo-political tensions to the brittle state of t [...]
