Letter from Berlin: The hard, hard world of online travel
First stop, KaDaWe, the store that once was the beacon of capitalism when the Berlin Wall was still a Wall. It’s been upgraded and refreshed but essentially the layout’s still the same.The sixth floor is where, during ITB week, you will run into the world’s travel industry professionals who co [...]
GfK brings NATAS into Travelscan, signs partnership with ForwardKeys
GfK and the National Association of Travel Agents (NATAS) Singapore have agreed to collaborate on the provision of dynamic travel-related insights for the Singapore tourism sector.Under the agreement, participating NATAS travel agent members will provide GfK with weekly consolidated, live booking da [...]
Mystifly’s B2B meta play pays off big in 2015
Mystifly, which was launched in 2009 as a global air consolidation services company and then changed course in 2011 to a platform play to deliver air content, has come a long way since its early days.CEO and co-founder, Rajeev Kumar, said that currently it is on the verge of going live with two top [...]
Making a foreign site click in China – it’s a game of technical and commercial issues
Website performance, particularly site speed, is an area of opportunity for foreign operators to consider. ChinaTravelNews assesses how foreign entities can improve upon their respective websites.Garnering attention of a prospective traveller early in the booking funnel and converting them on the br [...]
Amadeus maintains its growth with strong performance in 2014
Amadeus announced year-on-year financial and operating results for the full year of 2014 ended December 31, 2014 with adjusted profit for the period, including M&A activities, growing 9.9% to €681.1 million.This was backed by an increase in revenue of 10.1%, to €3,417.7 million, and EBITDA ( [...]
Six key lessons about hybrid customer behaviour
The is a guest blog by Laurens van den Oever, global director travel of GfK Asia Pte Ltd.Who could have foreseen 20 years ago that, in 2014, 3% of people would be booking holidays from their bathrooms?The customer purchase journey is unrecognisable compared to only 10 or 20 years ago. It is now all [...]
WIT Start-Up Pitch: Guiddoo – tour guides & activities in one app
Vineet Budki, VP Strategy for Guiddoo, tells WIT how it wants to be the Skyscanner of Tours and Activities that enhances a traveller’s in-destination experience.Q. Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraphGuiddoo is a start-up that does tour guiding and gctivity meta-searc [...]
Sabre’s new solutions make it possible for airlines to get personal with travellers
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) has launched three new, data-driven, personalisation solutions, for airlines to create personalised, meaningful engagements with travellers.The three new solutions, Sabre’s Customer Data Hub and Customer Experience Manager, and industry first, Dynamic Retailer, so [...]
The Wrap: Explore Asean the credit way with AirAsia
Airlines are the focus in the news this week with AirAsia Asean Pass going on sale, Lufthansa works with Amadeus to personalise travellers’ experience, while Malaysia Airlines teams up with Sabre to improve efficiency.Explore Asean the credit way with AirAsiaNow everyone can fly to all the Asean c [...]
Move from flights to travel drives Skyscanner’s global growth
Skyscanner has increased revenues in 2014 by 42% to £93 million, with EBITDA of £20 million.The company said in a press release that its financial results were underlined by record visitor numbers to Skyscanner, with over 35 million people around the world planning their travel each month on the s [...]
