Report: APAC business travel demonstrates resilience as MICE helps boost room rates
Corporate travel in Asia Pacific proves resilient with the region attaining the largest share of business travel spend ahead of North America and Western Europe, while the MICE (Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) industry helps to hike up room rates.
This is despite global economi [...]
The Wrap: More hotel choices for travellers in Sabre-Expedia partnership
The weekly news roundup: Expedia's partnership with Sabre and Travelport, awards for AGORA Hospitality
SECTORS: More hotel choices for travellers in Sabre-Expedia partnership
Travel agents across Asia Pacific have more hotels to offer to their clients with the addition of 63,000 new prop [...]
Tech Start-up Community secures Series A funding, working with investors from China and Indonesia to propel Southeast Asia’s Tech Ecosystem forward
e27 has raised a S$3M Series A venture round led by TechTemple Group and joined by Linear Venture, Convergence Ventures, Venturecraft and Spacemob. Also joining the round are successful entrepreneurs and investors including Douglas Khoo, Co-Founder of Qunar (invested in by Baidu for US$306M) and Tur [...]
The Wrap: A mile-high (book) club takes off with Jetstar
The weekly news roundup: Jetstar’s Big Book Swap, five personas of Chinese travellers, Edmond Travel partners with Travelport
AVIATION: A mile-high (book) club takes off with Jetstar
Fancy being member of a mile-high club, of the book kind? Low cost carrier Jetstar has started one with t [...]
Accor’s Issenberg talks Fairmont, culture and content
For a man who’s spent the past seven months leading the integration of a US$3 billion acquisition, involving 115 hotels across 40 countries, Michael Issenberg, the chairman of AccorHotels Asia Pacific, was looking decidedly relaxed when I caught up with him in Sydney.
Since Accor’s acquis [...]
The World’s Most Unique Digital Travel Awards Returns
Web In Travel’s WITovation Awards, which recognise excellence in digital marketing and user experience in travel, returns with the WIT Conference (Singapore, Oct 17-19).
Presented by Sojern, this year’s awards are open to nominations that cover marketing and development efforts in the last 12 [...]
Letter from Bethnal Green: Discovering a new hood, and the street art of Brick Lane
I have to confess that I never thought I’d ever write a letter from Bethnal Green – because, prior to last month, I didn’t even really know where it was and the name had only been on the periphery of my consciousness, associated with inner city London, gangs and crime.
It didn’t seem to b [...]
How a corporate hippie is reimagining George Town heritage + hotels
The day I went to check out the Jawi Peranakan Mansion, Chris Ong’s newest boutique hotel in Penang, a Chinese family of about 12, with young kids, were checking in.
They had booked on Expedia, were taking two rooms and the staff were wondering how to tell them that each room only had capacity [...]
The Wrap: Revenue from add-on services makes 10 airlines “billionaires”
The weekly news roundup: IdeaWorksCompany airline ancillary ancillary revenue review, 2016 Global Flight Price Ranking from Rome2rio, Apple Pay for Klook users
AVIATION: Revenue from add-on services makes 10 airlines “billionaires”
Ancillary revenue for airlines have doubled between 2 [...]
Locomote, backed by Travelport funding, powers on to change corporate travel
The idea of Locomote was born when Melbourne-based cousins Ross and David Fastuca (pictured) spoke to corporations about their problems booking their travel and found out what a disjointed experience it was.
“There were problems with duty of care, risk management, customer complaints with exist [...]
