CarTrawler acquires Cabforce to enhance product range and service delivery
Car rental distribution platform and ground transportation service provider, CarTrawler, is acquiring Cabforce, Finnish technology and services company and a leading provider of taxi booking solutions.
CarTrawler, which is backed by funds advised by BC Partners and Insight Venture Partners, did n [...]
IHG, Amadeus to develop “revolutionary” cloud-based guest reservation system
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Amadeus will jointly develop a next-generation Guest Reservation System (GRS), which it says “will revolutionise the technological foundations of the global hospitality industry.”
The new GRS for over 4,800 IHG properties will use a new cloud-based co [...]
Venture Republic buys Flocations to strengthen travel offerings in Southeast Asia
Venture Republic Group (VRG) announced today its acquisition of Singapore based startup, Flocations, Southeast Asia’s largest marketplace for online tour packages.
However, no other details such as the acquisition amount, were revealed.
Flocations, founded in 2012 and operating in Singapore [...]
WIT Start-Up: Postcard & Tag – a new way of sharing travel
Postcard & Tag the new visual social travel directory had its global launch in Jakarta, Indonesia. on April 21. The company shares with WIT its vision and plans.
1. Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
Postcard & Tag is your social travel directory t [...]
Letter from beautiful and vulnerable Bali, just like Nepal: United in travel
Last night, I slept to the sound of the ocean. It was the most blissful night’s sleep I’ve had in a while. Nothing like the sound of waves crashing to the shore to soothe the restless mind.
This morning, I woke to the same sound. Only this time there was laughter floating in the sea breeze.
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HotelQuickly brings last-minute booking to the Apple Watch
Now you can check in to your hotel room from your wrist with HotelQuickly's new Apple Watch app.
Working in tandem with the user's iPhone the app brings simplified access for navigation and check-in to the wrist, and ‘handoff’ continuity for instant transition right where they left off on [...]
Content is King, Community is Queen, and Commerce is their Royal Offspring
This post is written by Morris Sim, CEO & Co-founder, Circos Brand Karma.
At WIT Middle East a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of digital marketing experts: Angel Lorente Paramo, Global Head of Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, Qatar Airways,Sumathi Ramanathan, Region [...]
WIT Warrior Spotlight: Kathleen Tan – travel will become like going to the cinema
At the WIT Conference last October 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 first article in a series of interviews profiling our WIT Warriors.
Kathleen Tan came from a retail and music ba [...]
T Fuad: Ahead of the start-up mob and betting on the sharing economy in Asia
There are some people who've just got the start-up gene in their blood and Turochas Fuad, co-founder of travelmob, is one of them. He left a cushy corporate job to start travelmob. He's also been successful at exits – he sold his first start-up 10 years ago in Silicon Valley and last year, he so [...]
Future traveller & future travel agency tribes – let’s take a stab at the future
So it’s very brave of Amadeus to look into the future – 2030 no less – and predict the future traveller tribes. Most of the time, I can’t even figure out what’s going to happen tomorrow which is why I remain a scribe I guess, and not a researcher.
But there’s just so much happening so [...]
