The Wrap: Tourism Malaysia-Visa partnership, Accor’s collaboration with D-EDGE, Avatar the Experience in Singapore
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology sector – new partnerships, product launches, aviation industry updates, innovative solutions, and more …
Tourism Malaysia, Visa team up to drive inbound travel
Malaysia, which opened its borders to international travellers on 1 Ap [...]
Singapore, the home of world-class business events?
THE country has its sights set on growing high-quality MICE events in sustainability, urban solutions, food security, energy security, fintech and advanced manufacturing.
Right from the get-go when Singapore fully reopened to the world on April 1, the country sprang into action, issuing a clario [...]
FCM sees strong recovery for its regional business with borders reopening
FCM, the flagship business division of Australia’s Flight Centre Travel Group, has exceeded the 50% trading mark of pre-covid turnover with the recent reopening of borders and the relaxation of restrictions in several key Asia markets business.
Its Singapore business saw a 62% month-on-month in [...]
Reopening “exciting but terrifying” – Penang’s indie tourism businesses asking hard questions
“I HEARD some Singaporeans on the hill yesterday. I can’t tell you how happy I was.” “We had our first visitors from Singapore last weekend, they asked if we had durians.” “We are getting bookings from Singapore, we are so thrilled.” “The floodgates are opening, a bit overwhelming.� [...]
The Wrap: AirAsia’s new Super+ subscription plan, weak passenger demand for APAC airlines, RedDoorz’s Urbanview brand
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology sector – new partnerships, product launches, aviation industry updates, innovative solutions, and more …
airasia Super App introduces Super+ with unlimited flight redemption, free food delivery
In a timely move to coincide with [...]
10 years and counting, Traveloka “firing on all cylinders” to ride on recovery
From meta-search to lifestyle superapp as it adds services from food delivery to Buy Now Pay Later
THERE'S no disputing the fact that Traveloka, Indonesia’s homegrown travel unicorn, has come a long way in the 10 years it’s been around.
What started out as a flight meta-search in CEO and co- [...]
Singapore hotels aim for net zero emissions by 2050
SINGAPORE hotels are aiming to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 as part of a new Hotel Sustainability Roadmap launched this week at the inaugural Hotel Sustainability Conference and Marketplace.
The roadmap, drawn up jointly by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Singapore Hotel Association ( [...]
Relaxed testing and quarantine requirements spur demand for business travel
BUSINESS travel management platform CWT has observed a significant increase in corporate travel to and from several countries, which have recently relaxed testing and quarantine requirements for international travel.
The company gave as example three countries that have seen a rise in bookings f [...]
Reopening gains momentum, but Asia travel still impeded by Covid restrictions
“Testing and quarantine major barriers to travel”, IATA reiterates
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it welcomes the increasing momentum towards re-opening of borders and relaxation of travel restrictions, as Covid-19 moves into the endemic phase.
An IATA survey of trav [...]
Confessions of an anxiety-ridden form-filling test-taking traveller
Whoop, whoop – Cambodia leads the way, scraps all tests
WOKE up this morning with messages pinging from Cambodia – friends there all excited about the latest news. No more pre-departure PCR test needed to arrive, no more on-arrival ART test, and visa on arrival re-introduced for all air, sea an [...]
