AirAsia ramps up its superapp strategy with launch of e-hailing service in Malaysia
CLOSE on the heels of acquiring Malaysian online food delivery platform Delivereat to expand its delivery business in ASEAN, AirAsia Group is driving into the ride-hailing scene with the launch of airasia ride today (August 24).
The plan to launch a ride-hailing business was mooted by its chief [...]
BeMyGuest integrates with Google
BeMyGuest specialists in technology and distribution for attraction, tour and activity operators, today announced the launch of a new integration with Google, allowing attractions and tour operators to show free ticket booking links directly on Google Search.
This new
functionality will help dr [...]
Huawei to invest $100m in startups in APAC, makes first travel move in Middle East
Spark programme in second year, Wego first partner in MENA region
AS part of its move away from hardware, Huawei is scaling up its cloud services and startup support in Asia Pacific and while travel and hospitality is still not top of mind, its move into this vertical seems inevitable with the e [...]
Trip.com Group gives hybrid work a trial
TRIP.com Group has launched its “2021 Hybrid Work Trial”, a programme which seeks to determine if hybrid work can be part of its future work culture.
A continuation of its
“Work From Home Trial” projects launched in 2010 and 2020, which covered
customer service personnel, this initiative [...]
Now that the game has been changed by the Delta variant, is Asia leading the world again?
SINGAPORE, one of my home bases, is about to hit 80% of fully vaccinated
residents. This is quite remarkable, as experts say that an 80-90% full
vaccination rate will likely allow countries to build herd immunity in the
current state of this Delta-variant-driven epidemic.
Japan, my other base, [...]
At last, first two-way quarantine-free travel from Singapore to Germany, Brunei
IATA says hooray and urges other
APAC states to follow suit
AS Singapore reaches almost 80% vaccination rate, the doors are creaking open and IATA (International Air Transport Association) was the first to applaud the opening of quarantine-free travel lanes from Germany and Brunei and urged oth [...]
The Wrap: Amadeus accelerates NDC adoption in APAC, Etihad trials travel verification solution for Covid-19 tests, and more …
THE Wrap is a
round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors
are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
Amadeus steps up NDC adoption with airline and travel partners in APAC
Amadeus is helping its airline and travel [...]
AirAsia’s Teleport buys delivery platform Delivereat in US$9.8m deal
TELEPORT, the cargo and logistic arm of AirAsia Group, is expanding its delivery service in ASEAN with the acquisition of 100% stake in Malaysian online food delivery platform Delivereat for US$9.8 million (RM41.52 million).
Teleport, a unit of airasia Digital, said the transaction in both cas [...]
New virtual travel exchange platform to boost business opportunities for ASEAN tourism players
THE Asia Pacific region was the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic with international visitor spending falling by 74.4% as many countries across the region closed their borders to inbound tourists, while domestic spending witnessed a sharp decline of 48.1%, according to the WTTC 2021 Economic Tre [...]
ixigo’s road to profitability and IPO – how it did it and the future of bus and rail
FROM the start when Covid first struck, it was inevitable the road ixigo would take to raise future funds – via an IPO. CEO and Co-founder Aloke Bajpai hinted at this during a wide-ranging interview with WiT around this time last year.
When asked what was one of the positives that had emerged [...]
