Virgin Atlantic boosts online bookings with SaleCycle’s remarketing solutions
Virgin Atlantic, one of the UK’s leading long haul airlines, has seen an increase in its online bookings by more than 5% using email and on-site remarketing solutions from SaleCycle.The behavioural marketing company said booking abandonment was a huge challenge for the airline industry, with over [...]
Myanmar, the new, golden land of opportunity for online travel
Pulling back the curtains on the Myanmar’s startup scene, Heang Chhor, founder and managing partner of Qualgro ASEAN Fund (pictured right) highlighted tourism, online travel, healthcare, financial services and education as prime opportunities in the emerging market during the Echelon Thailand 2015 [...]
Sabre sets up community platform to showcase emerging innovations
Sabre Corporation has launched the Sabre Innovation Hub, a new online community site to share prototypes and some of its latest innovations with the travel industry.Accessible on Sabre.com, the platform highlights new and innovative prototypes and gives customers, developers, and other travel indust [...]
We shouldn’t stop travelling but we should ask, what if something goes wrong?
I don’t know if it was this post about a writer whose father died in a house rented on Airbnb that moved me and got me thinking – or if it was the terrorist attacks in Paris, or that bomb that downed a Russian jet, or the terrorist alert in Bali, but there’s no denying we live in frightening t [...]
The Wrap: Travelport ups stake in Aussie tech start-up, shuffles management team
In the news: Higher stake for Travelport in Locomote, AccorHotels and Samsung partner, enhanced CWT mobile app Travelport ups stake in Aussie tech start-up, shuffles management teamTravelport has increased its investment in Australian corporate travel technology company, Locomote, to 55% to become i [...]
Wider choice of restaurants for travellers to Japan from TripAdvisor and Gurunavi tie-up
Visitors to Japan will soon be able to indulge in more of the country’s gastronomic delights, made possible by the collaboration between travel site, TripAdvisor, and Japan’s leading restaurant search site, Gurunavi.Scheduled to go live in the first half of 2016, travellers will be able to acces [...]
Travellers spending more time to purchase hotels than for airlines
Sojern’s new Interactive Hotel Insights Report reveals two major consumer behaviour changes – travellers are spending more time on the hotel path to purchase than for airlines and last-minute bookers are increasing in numbers.Summarising the report, based on the analysis of more than a billion t [...]
Shangri-La’s Golden Circle celebrates fifth birthday with #LoyaltyIs campaign
Golden Circle, the loyalty programme for the Shangri-La family of brands, has launched #LoyaltyIs that it bills as its "biggest consumer campaign to date" to celebrate its fifth anniversary.From December 2015 to May 2016 Golden Circle will roll out programme benefits, new partnerships, exclusive off [...]
US$500m new wings to fly for Tuniu, Chinese outbound still powering on
The US$500 million investment to be made by HNA Tourism into Tuniu, the Chinese online leisure travel company, will give Tuniu wings to fly and, more importantly, “greatly help us when we are organising our own package tours”.Conor Yang, CFO of Tuniu, told WIT that HNA’s ownership of 12 differ [...]
Amadeus Next wants to build ecosystem to nurture travel tech startups
Amadeus Next believes that “connectivity in the community” is the missing link towards fostering more startup opportunities in travel and wants to build up an ecosystem to nurture travel tech startups.Simon Akeroyd, vice president of corporate strategy and business development of Amadeus for Asi [...]
