Klook Travel raises US$1.5 million funding, aims to revolutionise Asia’s travel activities space
Hong Kong-based travel activities booking start-up, Klook Travel, on June 1 announced its completion of a US$1.5 million seed investment round, as well as the launch of Klook Mobile.
The investment round was led mainly led by mainland China tech veteran, Xiaoguang Wu, who is Tencent’s senio [...]
Lastminute.com takes on new meaning and life with global ambitions
As far as names go, you couldn’t get better than a name like lastminute.com. It’s one of the legends of the dot.com era, founded in 1998, and thus when it came onto the market, Bravofly Rumbo Group snapped it up and for a song.
The acquisition, finalised in March, saw the Swiss travel group t [...]
The Wrap: 3.2 billion Internet users by end 2015
In the news: ITU’s report on global Internet usage, TripAdvisor’s new Chinese brand name, Travelport’s merchandising solution for TTS, Hotels.com’s awards programme for hotels
3.2 billion Internet users by end 2015
A staggering 3.2 billion people, or half the world’s current 7.2 [...]
Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Axe to fall on MAS staff as airline appoints new administrator
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: New adminstrator for Malaysia Airline, environmental concerns for Mergui, Seatrade Cruise Asia in June
Axe to fall on MAS staff as airline appoints new administrator
Malaysia Airlines’ owner Khazanah Nasional Bhd has appointed Datuk Mohammad Faiz Azmi [...]
WIT Start-Up: Journeyful – a rewards based hotel-booking engine
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
Journeyful operates in the double-sided market of travel.
On one side, we service travellers with our online travel agency, Journeyful.com and offer them the best prices in the market with a robust rewards program.
On the [...]
WIT Warrior Spotlight: Tujia’s Melissa wants to make travel better for Chinese travelers
At the WIT Conference last year in Singapore, we recognised 11 individuals whom we felt have had the most influence on the development of online travel in Asia Pacific. This is the third article in a series of interviews profiling our WIT Warriors.
Melissa Yang returned to China after a successfu [...]
eLong gears up for new avatar, set for sharper focus on lodging
This is an article by Ritesh Gupta, ChinaTravelNews.
Post Expedia’s decision to sell its equity stake in eLong, it is expected that the operations of eLong would solely focus on the online hotel booking segment. The plan from here on may be to replicate the model of priceline group’s booking. [...]
Expedia sells eLong to Ctrip & others, and now there’s Ctrip and Qunar
It was a short statement, announced today in Bellevue – if you weren’t paying attention, you would have missed it entirely – which would have meant missing possibly the most significant development in the Chinese online travel market.
Here’s what the statement said:
“Expedia has sold [...]
The Wrap: With fresh funding Lodgify set to expand product development operations
In the news: Lodgify gets new funding, Travel Parking Group’s app on Travelport, ibis Hotels partners Deezer, APAC airlines’ 2014 financial performance
With fresh funding Lodgify set to expand product development operations
With vacation rentals hotting up and Airbnb signalling an ex [...]
Travel disruption alert and who owns the customer journey
With all the talk in the industry about who owns the customer journey, Yeoh Siew Hoon wonders if travelers want to be owned.
Many things were said at Phocuswright Dublin including how as part of Expedia’s test and learn strategy, 1,500 changes were made in 2014 versus the 200 changes made in to [...]
