China’s overseas travellers are increasingly opting for experiences over shopping
Chinese travellers are heading out to Asia and Europe in record numbers for the eight-day October national holiday, known as the ‘Golden Week’ (October 1-8).
Ctrip.com International, China’s largest travel site, reveals that over six million of its users are going abroad to spend the holida [...]
Union pushback: Tough lessons learnt on MyCape’s startup journey
Coalescing his early experiences flying on standby as a child of airline executives with his understanding of challenges facing airlines managing perishable products, and then his engineering and enterprise technology knowledge, Lyle Jover set himself on a mission – to help full-service carriers c [...]
Working towards seamless travel, SIA and Grab join forces
SIA and Grab have announced a joint effort to get travellers from air to ground in one seamless experience. SIA and Grab will integrate their mobile apps to offer enhanced convenience to customers when travelling to the airport in six countries across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, t [...]
Singapore helps Cebu develop its tourism and hospitality sectors
Two institutes of higher learning and a non-profit philanthropic organisation from Singapore are joining forces to support capability building for the tourism industry in Cebu, one of the most popular destinations in the Philippines for foreign visitors.
Republic Polytechnic (RP) and Temasek Poly [...]
Northstar acquires travel planning app AXUS
Northstar Travel Group has bought AXUS Travel App, an itinerary management software for travel advisors and tour operators.
Terms of the acquistion have not been disclosed.
Founded in 2014, AXUS automates the creation of trip proposals and itineraries for travel managers and seamlessly deliver [...]
Sabre to launch lodging content services next year
Sabre Corporation is developing a technology solution that will integrate multiple sources of content including the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) and non-GDS sources such as aggregators, re-distributors, agency-sourced hotel content and other sources as identified.
Planned for a 2018 lau [...]
WIT Art For Good fights hunger and poverty in the Philippines
The fight against hunger and poverty in the Philippines will be helped along by this year’s edition of WIT’s Art For Good programme, to be held in conjunction with the WIT conference in Singapore.
WIT’s Art For Good programme is an annual fund raiser that has contributed approximately US$50 [...]
From idea to enterprise product, from WIT to New York
When Lyle Jover, co-founder and CEO of MyCape submitted his entry for a shot at the grand prize offered by WIT Startup Pitch last year, MyCape was “barely an idea”. A year later, it is now a “full-blown product, enterprise grade and has a great product fit with airline”.
MyCape is a socia [...]
Jeju Air’s investment another nod for Air Black Box
Jeju Air’s entry into the Air Black Box Asia Pacific family has given the company specialising in cloud-based airline passenger software platforms another nod.
“There is a new world order in the airline industry. Legacy technologies are increasingly becoming less relevant. It's abou [...]
Barceló teams up with Expedia to launch package bookings
Expedia Inc. and Barceló Hotel Group have formed a strategic partnership, which sees www.barcelo.com powered by Expedia’s dynamic packaging platform.
Expedia said in a statement that its package bookings “drive twice the length of stay and booking window, and half the cancellations of st [...]
