Travel insurance startup Hepstar is Silicon Valley-bound
Cape Town based start-up, Hepstar, has been selected to participate in the world’s largest start-up accelerator programme.
Plug and Play is the most active investment organisation in Silicon Valley, with portfolio companies including PayPal, Dropbox and Skytree.
Hepstar is a travel [...]
Want to have a memorable holiday? Take selfies, bring friends and family along and blog away
Snapping photos on their smart phones, bringing not just family but also friends along on a vacation, and spending time planning for a holiday are some of the ways Asian travellers make their vacation time more memorable.
These findings were discovered through a survey of over 500 travellers by H [...]
‘Cash is King’: How revenue is reshaping frequent flyer programmes
Frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) and how they are now more revenue aware is the subject of a new report in the ‘2017 thought leadership series on revenue and loyalty from CarTrawler.
Produced as a joint initiative with IdeaWorksCompany, Cash is King: Revenue Now Rules Frequent Flyer Programme A [...]
Rail: the time to get onboard is now and here’s how
For all the current chatter about new technology, there is an age-old travel product that is now demanding new attention.
According to Amadeus’ white paper on rail travel in Asia – Changing Tracks: Five make-or-break factors for rail travel in Asia Pacific – momentum is building. It also no [...]
Singapore’s Aviato wins AirAsia’s inaugural hackathon
Team Aviato from Singapore has taken the top prize in AIRVOLUTION 2017, AirAsia's first hackathon, which set the challenge of profiling the airline's fans based on their digital social footprint to improve customer experience.
The Singaporeans beat the other 19 teams at the end of the 18-hour eve [...]
Think cities in ASEAN and tech disruption will play out differently in region
While the world’s attention is focused on North Asia, spare a thought for South-east Asia whose potential is immense and is developing at a rapid pace fuelled by a growing middle class whose behavior will be shaped differently by technology.
Fraser Thompson, director, AlphaBeta, speaking at [...]
WIT Hospitality dives deep into the new hospitality environment
The new, reimagined environment that hotels and hotel-related suppliers are operating within can be tricky to navigate. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, chats, disruption, alternative accommodation, are some words and concepts hotels have been having to confront these days.
T [...]
flyiin gets “excited about travel again” building alternative “semi-direct distribution channel” to rival OTAs and meta-search engines
flyiin has built a new distribution model “from scratch”, based on the International Air Transport Association’s latest distribution standard, known as New Distribution Capability (NDC), and is ready to enter a beta phase with Lufthansa Group as its first partner airline.
flyiin claims it [...]
How hotels can maximise revenue through distribution, reveals new Sabre/Phocuswright report
A new white paper by Sabre Hospitality Solutions and Phocuswright discusses the decisions hoteliers must make in the channel optimisation process, as well as implement an effective strategy that will maximise the ROI (return on investment) of both direct and indirect channels.
Sabre says the repo [...]
The Wrap: Chinese travel search engine iGola partners with Amadeus to simplify travel shopping
In the news: iGola implements Amadeus technology, Booking.com’s brand campaign in Australia, Cebu Pacific and Limelight Networks partner
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: CHINESE SEARCH ENGINE IGOLA PARTNERS WITH AMADEUS TO SIMPLIFY TRAVEL SHOPPING
Guangzhou-based iGola is implementing Amadeus Extreme [...]
