The Wrap: WebBeds launches destination index in support of Hong Kong’s travel industry
News Roundup: WebBeds’ new destination performance tool launched, SITA's latest report on airlines and airports reaping benefits from IT investments, mobile app for booking tours and activities in Malaysia, ANA reducing single-use plastics from 2020
Distribution:WebBeds launches destination i [...]
A tale of three places: Bamboo, Bali and never-ending neon
Travelling straight from the private
island of Cempedak to the mass tourism island of Bali is one thing, but going
on from Bali to Shanghai the day after, well, that’s another. The contrasts are
marked but there’s a common thread that weaves through them – the story of
travel – as Yeoh Siew [...]
South-east Asia a “melting pot of trends” in online travel
It’s an interesting time in the travel industry in South-east Asia.The middle class is growing very fast, 90% of the region’s 360 million internet users are connecting through mobile devices, brands already in travel are expanding their offerings and other e-commerce entities are forging partn [...]
The Wrap: TAT, Expedia launch global sustainable tourism initiative in collaboration with UNESCO
News Roundup: "Industry-first” global initiative in sustainable tourism launched in Thailand, Malaysia Airlines' and Singapore Airlines' wide-ranging partnership agreement, AirAsia’s enhanced mobile app, American Express Global Business Travel’s new online booking tool Neo
Environmen [...]
Twenty years on, from Ctrip to Trip: From China power to “glocal” giant
It felt like I was going to a rock concert. The night before, on a cruise on the Huangpu river, the city lights were in full blaze but one illumination stood out, the Pearl Tower lights announcing that Ctrip was turning 20 – a city paying homage to its homegrown Internet giant.
This morning, [...]
Grab launches ride-hailing service on Booking.com mobile app
As
an extension of its current partnership, Booking.com and Grab have incorporated
Grab’s ride-hailing service into Booking.com’s mobile app. The collaboration
will allow international travellers visiting South-east Asia to make real-time
transport bookings via the Booking.com app, in their pre [...]
Experiential travel from Asia will fuel Africa’s rise, sustainability and conservation paramount
As consumers become more conscientious about the sustainability of their travel practices, some are actively seeking out brands better aligned with their values. And Singita, which runs high end lodges alongside wildlife protection programmes in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Rwanda believes [...]
South African Tourism and Tencent team up to boost Chinese arrivals in South Africa
China’s Tencent and the South African Tourism Beijing Office (SA Tourism) have announced a new partnership geared towards increasing the number of Chinese tourist arrivals in South Africa.
The collaboration will
span over two years and aims to position South Africa as one of Chinese
travellers [...]
Transformation of a sacred cow: The flight path of SIA into a digital enterprise, beyond airline seats
Singapore Airlines (SIA) started its digital transformation in 2016. Since then, hundreds of millions have been invested in IT capex with the vision of creating a “future where SIA remains a prestigious proposition but becomes a smaller part of the whole entity, and the other seeds would have bec [...]
Letter from the South China Sea: Time for unusual thinking, unorthodox partnerships and old-fashioned making money
Yeoh Siew Hoon gets stranded on a coral
reef off Cempedak and ponders the secrets of the travel universe as they were revealed
at last week’s WiT Singapore 2019.
The sun was about to call it a day when we set out on a boat from Cempedak Island off Bintan, Indonesia. Our destination was a coral [...]
