5 ways Taiwan tourism will change
This is a guest blog by Morris Sim, CEO & co-founder of Circos Brand Karma.Taiwan’s historic 2016 elections brought in a new administration that will change Taiwan. Here are my predictions on how the Tsai administration’s focus will change Taiwan tourism for the better.Foreign travelers will [...]
China’s travel market tears into 2016
Ctrip enters India; Qunar spars with airlines; BAT kingmakers take on travel By Maggie Rauch, Senior Research Analyst, PhocuswrightThe Lunar New Year is still a month away, but China’s online travel industry started the 2016 calendar year with fireworks. In the space of just one week: Qunar’s C [...]
What David Bowie said about the Internet rings true for travel too
I know much has been written about the passing of David Bowie this week and even more shared on social media and it’s times like these that you realise again the power of the Internet.It gives voice to a community united around one thing and it allows us to share all our different memories, perspe [...]
Technology lets tourists ‘go local’ with micromoments
This is a guest blog by Bronwyn White, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism, and aviation industries.I was delighted a few weeks ago when I saw that Airbnb had created a new product off the back of Google market research around [...]
Northstar Travel Media rebrands as Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Media, owner of WIT, has been rebranded Northstar Travel Group, a move that chairman and CEO, Tom Kemp, said highlighted the transformation of Northstar into the leading B2B information, business intelligence, commerce and events platform serving the travel and meetings industries.� [...]
£128 million in new investment for Skyscanner
Five new partners of Skyscanner are collectively investing £128 million (US$192 million) in the global search engine.The investment from Artemis (global fund manager), Baillie Gifford (independent investment manager based in Edinburg), Khazanah Nasional Berhad (sovereign wealth fund of the Malaysia [...]
Happy 2016: What was over-hyped and what’s coming, Part 3
With the dawn of a new year, we ask a few of our industry leaders for what they felt was most over-hyped in the year that was, their prediction for 2016 and for good measure, we asked them their one wish for WIT. Tao Tao, CMO, GetYourGuide1. Most over-hyped trend of 2015 Apps. Acquiring customers on [...]
Fresh funding for online hotel booking start-up, SavvyMob
Bengaluru-based SavvyMob, an on-demand mobile marketplace for last minute hotel rooms in India, has closed a seed investment to further expand its product and to strengthen its technology team.The investment is led by Mohandas Pai’s Aarin Capital and includes members of prominent business houses i [...]
16 neighbourhoods to visit: Airbnb’s recommendations for 2016
In 2015, over 40 million people travelled and stayed in homes on Airbnb across 190 countries around the globe. The company analysed the travel patterns of these traveller and selected neighbourhoods that have gained momentum in the past year.The study, Airbnb Travel Trends Report: 16 Neighborhoods t [...]
Ctrip & MakeMyTrip: A union that sets tone for Fiery Monkey year
Some liken it to fulfilling what Admiral Zheng He, the great Chinese explorer, started in the 14th century when the eunuch mounted expeditionary voyages across the world, from Asia to Africa.Some see it as the awakening of Asia, a time when Asian giants have the ambition, appetite and, most importan [...]
