Egencia expands Global Leadership Team with hiring of Wendy White
It’s International Women's Day today (April 8) and leading global travel management company, Egencia, announced it has enlarged its Global Leadership Team to include four women leaders.
The latest to join the team is Wendy White as its vice president of marketing, tasked with leading all global [...]
Jane Sun: Shattering the ‘Glass Ceiling’ – Greater female presence needed for innovation
By Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip
Women have been asking for equal labor right and social status since the establishment of the International Women’s Day in 1910. It is common sense for a responsible company to provide equal career development and remuneration for women. According to the report by the� [...]
Airlines told, look east as China and South-east Asia drive distribution changes
Airlines, particularly, those in the West should start looking east, specifically, to China to understand where mobile, ecommerce and payments are headed. That was the message from Hugh Aiken, senior director of strategic partnerships, Skyscanner, at the recent CAPA Global LCC Summit, when asked abo [...]
The Wrap: Lost or delayed baggage a thing of the past with AI?
In the news: Airlines and airports look to AI revolutionise baggage management; videos to facilitate searching and booking travel; an airline on quest to make customers happy
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Lost or delayed baggage a thing of the past with AI?
One of the biggest nightmares of m [...]
WIT launches Indie event to champion creators of unique, local experiences
WIT is launching an Indie event aimed at empowering independents and creatives at the long tail of the travel experience. The first edition of WIT Indie will be held in Penang, Malaysia, on April 13, and is supported and sponsored by Penang Institute, one of Malaysia’s leading think tanks.
T [...]
Redeam closes US$7.7M in series A funding to boost paperless ticket processing for tours and activities
Automatic ticket processing company, Redeam, has successfully raised US$7.7M in series A funding, led by Vertical Venture Partners with Thayer Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Tallwave Capital and Peninsula Ventures in participation.
Redeam develops technology that automates ticket proc [...]
Four Asian sustainable tourism startups to participate in the 2018 Booking Booster Programme
Four Asian social enterprises have qualified as part the top ten travel startups to participate in this year’s Booking Booster Programme, by Booking.com. They will join six others in Amsterdam this May to take part in a three-week long accelerator programme, designed specifically for startups work [...]
Cruising in Southeast Asia picks up steam with STB-CLIA partnership
Singapore’s ongoing efforts to develop the rapidly growing cruising industry in the city-state, as well as in Southeast Asia, receives a boost with the inking of a new three-year partnership between the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and and Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA).
In anno [...]
FASTBOOKING provides CRM solution through Cendyn collaboration
FASTBOOKING now provides a CRM solution after it inked a collaboration with Cendyn, a CRM and sales platform.
According to FASTBOOKING, “this collaboration will…drive qualified traffic to the hotels’ website”. Hoteliers will be able to capture a holistic view of every guest and thereby im [...]
US$11m richer, and RedDoorz makes first move into leasing and managing its own hotel
In the same week it announced raising a pre-Series B round of US$11m funding, Southeast Asia’s leading online budget hotel booking chain, RedDoorz, also made its move into the brick-and-mortar world by leasing and running its first property in Singapore.
The pre-Series B round comes as an addit [...]
