Three accidental indie travel makers, one common purpose
If there is one thing travel entrepreneurs Uttara Sarkar Crees, Andrew Dixon and Simon Wong have in common, it is that they all got into what they are doing by accident but are now following their passion and paths with purpose.
Speaking at the inaugural WIT Indie in Penang last week, the trio sh [...]
The Wrap: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
This week we look at partnerships - CarTrawler with London-based startup Splyt, and New Zealand’s Sounds Air with Sabre, Cambodia Bayon Airlines with Travelport
TRANSPORTATION: CarTrawler now offers ride sharing services to its customers
Travel technology provider, CarTrawler, has pu [...]
Be socially responsible from day one, not only after you’ve made money, says KGH’s Rajan Sakya
In an industry driven by profits and KPIs, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what the world really looks like.
At WIT Seoul 2018, much of the discussion revolved around how travel businesses should be responding to international issues from geo-political tensions to the brittle state of t [...]
Why The Murray, Hong Kong, had me singing like a lark
I must have passed the Hong Kong Government building countless times when I was living in the city. You couldn’t help but do so, located as it is midway between Pacific Place and Central. But the Murray Building was a structure you hardly noticed in a city of super structures – it was nondescrip [...]
AccorHotels’ buying spree continues with acquisition of restaurant reservation platform ResDiary
Less than a week after announcing the purchase of a 50% stake in South Africa-based Mantis Group, AccorHotels has bought table reservation system ResDiary for an undisclosed sum.
Glasgow-based ResDiary, co-founded by Mike Conyers (also its CEO) in 2004, provides venues with a high-end table managem [...]
AccorHotels expands presence in Africa with purchase of stake in Mantis
AccorHotels is increasing its portfolio of hotels in the African continent with the acquisition of a 50% stake in Mantis Group, the South Africa-based hospitality and travel conglomerate.
This deal follows the French hotel group’s sale in February of a 55%t stake in its AccorInvest real estat [...]
Letter from Seoul: South Korea’s travel braces for change as perfect storm approaches
There was a time when I visited Tokyo and I thought I had landed in a science fiction novel. Today I get that same feeling when I visit Seoul.
Its citizens are more attached to their smartphones than anywhere else – by age 12, 72% of South Koreans own a smartphone and they spend 4.5 hours a day [...]
The Wrap: Skyscanner app now has new trains feature
In the news: Skyscanner launches trains feature while travel technology companies forge ties with more airlines
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skyscanner app now has new trains feature
Edinburgh-based Skyscanner has diversified its offerings to travellers in the United Kingdom with the launch of a [...]
AirAsia heads to Silicon Valley in search of travel startups
AirAsia is making its first foray into US Silicon Valley, home to many startup and global technology companies, to find “the best startups in the travel industry” as the airline puts it.
The low cost carrier is carrying out the search in partnership with Plug and Play Tech Center, a global in [...]
“Data is the new gold” has become “data is the new dirt”
What a week it’s been – first the Facebook data scandal and then the Grab-Uber deal in South-east Asia, and at the heart of it, our identities.
The former led to outrage that we could have been so manipulated by marketers targeting our social profiles (we always have been, it’s just the sca [...]
