APAC destinations gaining favour with Chinese travellers, drop in trips to Europe
In 2016, while international travel grew by about 4%, China registered a growth rate of 13%, further consolidating its position as one of the world’s most important source markets for international travel. The country exceeded the Asian Pacific average outbound growth rate of 9% in the same year.
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AccorHotels expands footprint in Australia, acquires Mantra Group for A$1.3bil
AccorHotels is on the acquisition trail again, this time buying Mantra Group, one of Australia’s largest hotel and resort marketers and operators with 127 properties and over 20,000 rooms.
The French hotel group has just inked the agreement to buy the group and to acquire all of the issued ca [...]
Blacklane adds airport concierge services worldwide with acquisition of Solve
Global professional driver service Blacklane has acquired Solve, the first platform for booking global airport concierge services.
Solve, founded last year and selected to Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 batch, serves more than 500 airports. Its services include curbside and air-side passenger meet [...]
The Wrap: Asia Pacific dominates air travel with 35% of the world market
In The News: IATA releases its yearbook of the airline’s industry’s performances; Booking.com launches the first Technology Playmaker Awards; ATPCO and SITA announces the NDC Exchange
IATA STATISTICS: Asia Pacific dominates air travel with 35% of the world market
Asia Pacific, once ag [...]
Letter from Muscat: And so we enter the golden age of digital travel in Middle East
For some reason, Muscat seems closer in my mind than it really is. To get here, I had to connect via Dubai and with a four-hour layover, it’s almost a 12-hour journey and I thought I could have flown to London in that time.
But returning to Oman eight years later was what I wanted to do. After [...]
The first Kafnu co-working space opens in Hong Kong
Next Story Group, formerly Silver Needle Hospitality, has launched its first co-working space, Kafnu Hong Kong, at Kerry Hotel in the Hung Hom area of Kowloon.
Kafnu is named after a village in India where people go to start Himalayan hikes – a basecamp so to speak. Just like travellers go to K [...]
SpotHero, DVI win awards at BTN Group’s award show
SpotHero for Business walked away with The BTN Group's 2017 Business Travel Innovator Award during the fourth annual Innovate conference produced by the publishers of Business Travel News, Travel Procurement and The Beat at the New York Hilton Midtown last week.
Among 14 Business Travel Inn [...]
Wego’s Ross Veitch on getting the timing right for Middle East and marketplace ambitions
He may have been too early for Singapore as well as Indonesia – indeed South-east Asia in general – but Ross Veitch, CEO and co-founder of Wego, believes he’s finally hit the right timing in the Middle East.
“We probably went into emerging markets too early,” he said. “We thought they [...]
China’s overseas travellers are increasingly opting for experiences over shopping
Chinese travellers are heading out to Asia and Europe in record numbers for the eight-day October national holiday, known as the ‘Golden Week’ (October 1-8).
Ctrip.com International, China’s largest travel site, reveals that over six million of its users are going abroad to spend the holida [...]
Union pushback: Tough lessons learnt on MyCape’s startup journey
Coalescing his early experiences flying on standby as a child of airline executives with his understanding of challenges facing airlines managing perishable products, and then his engineering and enterprise technology knowledge, Lyle Jover set himself on a mission – to help full-service carriers c [...]
