The Millennial Traveller: Innovation in travel tech has only just begun, says Hack Horizon’s Kostadin Kolev
Reimagining the very way we conduct ourselves in daily life is no easy feat but travel is inherently an industry built on the notion of ‘doing things differently’. While technology in travel is not a novel topic, acknowledging ‘travel tech’ as its own vertical is still relatively young.
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The Wrap: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
The weekly news roundup: Skyscanner’s new quality ratings feature, Club Carlson’s ‘Members Only Rate’, TripAdvisor’s million dollar pledge to the refugee crisis
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
Global travel search engi [...]
Momondo’s Burge on Brexit, emotion, meta and startups
Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Hugo Burge, CEO of London-based Momondo Group, to discuss, among other things, the impact of Brexit, the need for emotion and purpose in today's world of travcl, the evolution of meta and the investments he's making through HOWZAT Partners, and why it's a great time to [...]
US$40.5bil in revenue boost for 67 airlines: CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook
The new CarTrawler Ancillary Revenue Yearbook by IdeaWorksCompany (2016 edition) revealed a total of US$40.5 billion in ancillary revenue, comprising nearly 8.7% of total sales, for 67 airlines.
Europe’s carriers performed well, contributing US$11 billion.
For the survey IdeaWorksCompany res [...]
Booking.com pilots mobile-based in-destination experience
Arrive at a destination and want to discover places and attractions without the hassle of looking through guidebooks or travel apps? Now you can do it easily on your mobile with Booking.com’s new Booking Experiences.
Experiences allows travellers to discover the destination they are in via thei [...]
WIT 2016 will reunite online travel pioneers and reimagine the future
The 12th edition of WIT, to be held on Oct 17-19 in Singapore, will be a reunion of sorts as well as a reimagination of the future.
“Twelve years is the end of a cycle and we are taking the opportunity this year to reflect on the past as well as reimagine the future,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, fou [...]
The Wrap: Travelport creates two new organisations to meet customers’ evolving needs
The weekly news roundup: Travelport’s two new organisations, robust China outbound travel, travellers’ choice of top museums in Asia
TECHNOLOGY: Travelport creates two new organisations to meet customers' evolving needs
Travelport has set up two new entities - Travelport Digital and [...]
Explore attractions and book activities seamlessly with TripAdvisor/Viator content solution
TripAdvisor and Viator (a TripAdvisor company) are collaborating to offer their travel partners and hospitality providers an enhanced attractions content solution, which combines the former’s attractions with booking options by the latter.
The travel planning and booking site said in a statemen [...]
The 3 pain points startups should solve in corporate travel: Ragge
Amid the disruption happening in corporate travel, HRS, Global Hotel Solutions, has built its own innovation hub in Berlin where it’s acting as accelerator and partner to startups. It’s also of course a way for the German-based family run company to tap into tech talent. (See related story)
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HRS’ Ragge on Asia, corporate travel disruption and family businesses
Looking surprisingly fresh despite having been through five cities in 10 days, CEO of HRS Tobias Ragge is decidedly pumped up about what he calls “the convergence of thunderstorms” that make Asia such an exciting growth story for his second generation family business.
One, compared with Europ [...]
