Working towards seamless travel, SIA and Grab join forces
SIA and Grab have announced a joint effort to get travellers from air to ground in one seamless experience. SIA and Grab will integrate their mobile apps to offer enhanced convenience to customers when travelling to the airport in six countries across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, t [...]
Singapore helps Cebu develop its tourism and hospitality sectors
Two institutes of higher learning and a non-profit philanthropic organisation from Singapore are joining forces to support capability building for the tourism industry in Cebu, one of the most popular destinations in the Philippines for foreign visitors.
Republic Polytechnic (RP) and Temasek Poly [...]
WIT Art For Good fights hunger and poverty in the Philippines
The fight against hunger and poverty in the Philippines will be helped along by this year’s edition of WIT’s Art For Good programme, to be held in conjunction with the WIT conference in Singapore.
WIT’s Art For Good programme is an annual fund raiser that has contributed approximately US$50 [...]
Barceló teams up with Expedia to launch package bookings
Expedia Inc. and Barceló Hotel Group have formed a strategic partnership, which sees www.barcelo.com powered by Expedia’s dynamic packaging platform.
Expedia said in a statement that its package bookings “drive twice the length of stay and booking window, and half the cancellations of st [...]
The Wrap: ‘Exclusive rates’ for agencies on Travelport platform
In the news: Travelport’s Exclusive Rates programme for agencies, HK Express’ loyalty programme new mobile app, Cebu Pacific ‘ASEAN One’ celebrations
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Exclusive rates for agencies on Travelport platform
Travel commerce platform, Travelport, is giving its corpora [...]
Alipay partners STB to enhance the Singapore experience for Chinese tourists
Online and mobile payment platform Alipay has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to “enhance Chinese tourists’ overall experience in Singapore”.
Under the MOU Alipay, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, and STB will cross-share relevant [...]
The Wrap: Pop-up flight check-in debuts in Sydney, Virgin Australia first to test service
This week the focus is on airlines –Virgin Austraila’s trialing the world’s first pop-up flight check-in, and KLM piloting the new WhatsApp service to its customers.
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Pop-up flight check-in debuts in Sydney, Virgin Australia first to test service
Queuing at airports [...]
Huge incumbents in travel are hard to dislodge but Bao Bean sees opportunities around solving specific problems
William Bao Bean, general partner at SOSV, named the world’s most active seed investor by TechCrunch Crunchbase, has his eye on travel but is aware that the potential for new technology to really disrupt the industry is hard.
“Travel is a closed insular industry, there’s a lot of histor [...]
Post-restructure, IHG’s Barr says it’s about brand, scale and tech as it prepares to launch new reservations system
It was the Friday of the 10th Formula 1 weekend in Singapore. One assumes all visitors coming to town that weekend are here for the race but no, not the new group CEO of Intercontinental Hotels Group, Keith Barr. Barr was making a lightning visit to Singapore and the region to “spend time with the [...]
How Asia’s hospitality industry can stay relevant in this competitive digital age
A new study by Meltwater, which provides insights and consultancy to help brands future-proof their business, examines how digital disruption is redefining the customer’s travel experience across the hospitality industry in Asia.
Adopting a digital-first strategy could give hospitality compane [...]
